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Liz EgglestonUpdated on February 19, 2015DevPoint Labs is an 11-week, full-time, immersive bootcamp with campuses in Salt Lake City, Utah and Las Vegas, Nevada. DevPoint Labs’ full-stack bootcamp features an intensive 80 hours per week learning Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and more. We’re breaking down the DevPoint Labs Women’s Scholarship, a unique and comprehens...Continue Reading →- Liz EgglestonUpdated on February 8, 2021Greg Oppman worked in design and animation in Los Angeles before deciding to return home to Indiana. Greg read about Eleven Fifty and saw an opportunity to start coding again and improve his current job skills as a digital marketer. With his company footing the bill, Greg attended Eleven Fifty’s week-long JavaScri...Continue Reading →
- Aaron FazulakUpdated on May 26, 2023Why tap into this potential group of bootcampers? Aaron Fazulak, co-founder of DESIGNATION (now part of Flatiron School) in Chicago, explains why veterans make great tech bootcampers! As of 5/1/19, Designation is now ...Continue Reading →
- Kelli OrrelaUpdated on February 19, 2015Maybe you chose an online program to learn to code because you work full-time and need a flexible schedule. Or maybe you were looking for a lower-cost option. Or you didn’t want to re-locate but still wanted the chance to work with classmates and instructors from around the world. Whatever the reason, now that you’ve made your choice, you want to make sure you get the most out of yourContinue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on February 12, 2015Midnight Express is an "Uber-for-busses" service that offers late-night bus service from San Francisco to Silicon Valley. And get this: it was developed and launched in less than TEN DAYS by Bloc UX Design student Michael Horton. Are you interested in launching your own business or website? Or maybe strengthen...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on December 4, 2024A self-taught designer, Randy Oest is the Manager of Digital Design at an agency in Indianapolis. Wanting to add iOS development to his skillset and possibly even his company’s offerings, Randy turned to Eleven Fifty’s Introduction to iOS Development course. Randy tells us about the diversity in skill-level during his cl...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on March 19, 2019Charles Miller had studied computer science at a community college and was working in IT as a computer support technician when his mom told him about Coder Foundry (she saw it on the news). After visiting the campus and talking with founders, Charles completed Coder Foundry’s .NET bootcamp and has since been placed in a reward...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on March 19, 2019Andrew Jensen is a university-trained software developer with degrees in English and Computer Science and more than 20 years of experience in education. When he met Bobby Davis, who was preparing to start Coder Foundry, the idea of a bootcamp made sense to Andrew, and he joined the Coder Foundry team. Now, after more th...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on December 1, 2025Tino Espinoza was a student in his freshman year at the University of Denver, but he hadn’t yet decided on his major. Having seen his friends with coding skills get great jobs, Tino decided that coding was the path for him, and Turing’s 7-month structure in Colorado stood out. As Tino heads into the end of hi...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on July 23, 2024Deciding on a coding bootcamp that will propel you into a new career is a huge decision on its own; figuring out how to pay for a bootcamp adds another layer to the search. Coding bootcamp tuition costs around $13,584 on average, and whileContinue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on December 3, 2024Trever Ewing became interested in mobile app development and Swift while studying computer science at Indiana University- this interest only increased when he started working in Apple’s customer care department. After completing Eleven Fifty’s Intro to iOS course in January and considering an apprenticeship throughContinue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on February 3, 2015We Got Coders is a 6-month, full-stack coding bootcamp, specializing in Ruby on Rails. Take a tour of the new We Got Coders campus in Bedforshire, an hour from London. The Location: We Got Coders web development trainees will learn how to code in a unique, 19th century waterside residence j...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on February 7, 2020Welcome to the January News Roundup, your monthly news digest full of the most interesting articles and announcements in the bootcamp space. Want your bootcamp's news to be included in the next News Roundup? Submit announcements of new courses, scholarships, or open jobs at your school! Bootcamps in the News ...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on February 2, 2015Jordana Gustafson started following coding bootcamp education when Dev Bootcamp launched in California. After meeting Code Fellows instructor Ivan Storck at a startup in San Francisco, Jordana joined the team as Campus Manager at Code Fellows’ newest campus in Portland. She tells us about meeting the demands of Portland’s ...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on January 30, 2015David Davidson started his career in copyediting with a humanities background; after learning HTML on the side and working an internship at a startup in Seattle, he decided to make a permanent move into web development. David completed the Full-Stack JavaScript Development Accelerator atContinue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on February 8, 2021Matt Tucker was attending a technical college in Phoenix for computer science, but he wanted to learn to apply his skills more directly. The Silicon Valley location and affordable price point at Coding Dojo appealed to Matt, and he moved to California, putting college on hold. He completed Coding Dojo’sContinue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on January 29, 2015Art Lee was one of the first graduates of Dev Bootcamp Chicago, and talks to us about his background in design and teaching, his opinions of Dev Bootcamp's teaching style, and how he connected with his current employer, Higi. Tell us what you were up to before you started Dev Bootc...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on January 31, 2018Coding Bootcamps are intensive programs- some require an 80 hour per week commitment, and all demand undivided attention in the classroom. This structure may be necessary to learn a new skill in a short time, but it can also overwhelm students and in some cases, cause burnout. Luckily, at Course Report, we get the opportunity to talk with alumni from coding bootcamps all over the world, and...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on December 4, 2024Leo Picado studies computer science and lives in Costa Rica. When he started doing contract work for a Utah e-tailer company, he found that he would need to sharpen his skills to build them the new mobile app they needed. After doing some preliminary work with Treehouse, he reached out to Eleven Fifty in India...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on January 28, 2015Thinking about applying to MakerSquare or another immersive coding bootcamp? Thanks to a new partnership between online learning platform Thinkful and JavaScript bootcamp MakerSquare, you can get a headstart! We talk with MakerSquare founderContinue Reading →
