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Imogen CrispeUpdated on May 13, 2016After working as a software engineer for 15 years, Fred Zirdung joined Hack Reactor when it launched in San Francisco in 2012. And while he had always wanted to teach, he didn’t realize just how much he would learn by teaching at Hack Reactor. He’s now the Lead Instructor and in charge ...Continue Reading →- Liz EgglestonUpdated on December 14, 2023A coding bootcamp can propel your career in tech to new heights, but that often means quitting a job, uprooting your life, or moving to a new city. Maybe you’re moving to a new city to become a developer and need a short-term housing option. Or perhaps you’re anContinue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on May 12, 2016Josh Tucholski is the Lead .NET Instructor at Tech Elevator coding bootcamp in Cleveland, Ohio. With more than 10 years of experience as a developer under his belt, Josh tells us why he wanted to teach motivated Tech Elevator students, why Java and .NET are ideal first programming langu...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on May 12, 2016[As of October 13, 2017, The Iron Yard will no longer be operating.] The Iron Yard campus has been thriving in Austin for over a year, graduating dozens of students who go on to find exciting jobs at Austin companies. But we had questions about what makes the Texas coding bootcamp’s campus culture special. So we spoke withContinue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on May 10, 2016Mike McKerns is a data science veteran and instructor at Los Angeles data science bootcamp Logit Academy which starts its first cohort on June 13. In his 37 years as a data scientist, Mike has pioneered new techniques, and founded a nonprofit for advancing the maths behind data science. Mike tells us about his extensive experien...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on May 6, 2016Steve Kinney spent seven years as a high school and middle school teacher in NYC before moving to Denver, CO to teach web development at Turing School of Software and Design. Steve is now the program director forContinue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on May 5, 2016As of December 8, 2017, Dev Bootcamp will no longer be operating. You may know Phase 0 as the first 9 weeks of Dev Bootcamp’s full 18-week coding bootcamp, but in March 2016, Dev Bootcamp launched the 9-week part-time online program as Fundamentals of Web Development, a standalone p...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on May 2, 2016Meng He is a volunteer instructor for part of Startup Institute’s immersive Web Design program. She has been a UX designer for eight years, and joined Startup Institute as a way to give back and help out other budding UX designers. Meng tells us about how she grew into a UX designer,...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on October 21, 2020Armed with years of development experience, hundreds of CodeMentor hours, and a deep understanding of remote work, Mexico-based Jim OKelly founded online web development school Devschool in January 2015. Now having graduated several cohorts, Jim sits down with Course Report to talk about the ...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on June 16, 2025New York’s MEAN Stack coding bootcamp Grace Hopper Academy just graduated their first all-female cohort, and Course Report attended their hiring day to get a first-hand look at the students’ final projects. The students had about two and a half weeks to work on these projects, then four minutes each to present them to hi...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on April 26, 2016Kevin Harris is the founder and lead instructor of Guild of Software Architects mobile development bootcamp in Frisco, TX. He and his wife started the bootcamp last year with part-time night courses, and they are about to launch a full-time immersive Android program in May 2016, and an iOS program in August 2016. ...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on April 25, 2016Authman was a game and web developer for 22 years before he joined Coding Dojo as an instructor at the Dallas, TX campus (it opened in March 2016). Originally from San Francisco, Authman loves the southern hospitality in Dallas and has made it his new home. He tells us about his previous teaching experience, his faith in the bootc...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on April 21, 2016Halfway through his college degree in management information systems, Larry realized he wasn’t going to get the technical knowledge he needed for the job he wanted, so he started researching coding bootcamps. So as soon as Larry graduated, he enrolled in Coding Temple coding bootcamp in Chicago to study .NET web development. Now...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on April 19, 2016Rachel was a touring singer/songwriter, classical musician, and finalist on American Idol before she switched careers to become a developer. After graduating from General Assembly’s Web Development Immersive program in NYC, Rachel landed her dream job as a full stack developer forContinue Reading →
- Kendall GibsonUpdated on October 21, 2020If you asked me two months ago what data analysts do, I most definitely would have given you this clownish answer: “They analyze data.” That’s because I tend to act like a know-it-all, especially when asked seemingly simple questions. Then again, I didn’t know very much about data analysis back then. Now, after finishing a data analytics bootcamp run byContinue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on April 14, 2016Scott was a school teacher in Montreal for 17 years before he started teaching himself web design and freelancing on the side. When he decided to make the full career change, Scott enrolled in DecodeMTL coding bootcamp in Montreal. Now he is a front end developer for AppDirect and ...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on July 24, 2016See our most recent recommendations for summer coding bootcamps here! If you're a college student, an incoming freshman, ...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on April 13, 2016Daniel Breen worked in retail at Costco for 12 years, but decided that a career change was in order. So he learned Angular and front end JavaScript in the After Hours Javascript course at Utah’s DevPoint Labs (they now teach full-stack JS). But when the class graduated, Daniel didn’t stop there! He continued learning, building p...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on April 12, 2016As of December 8, 2017, Dev Bootcamp will no longer be operating. Dev Bootcamp had roots in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York, opened in San Diego last year, and this year announced new campuses in Seattle, Austin, and D.C.! We spoke to Seattle campus director Stu Jones about his background as an instructor in San Francis...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on April 11, 2016MakerSquare and Hack Reactor are two well-reputed, full-time coding bootcamps which teach full stack JavaScript. In January 2015, Hack Reactor acquired MakerSquare, a...Continue Reading →
