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Liz EgglestonUpdated on March 4, 2015CareerFoundry combines the flexibility of online learning with the proven guidance of mentors, training students to become employable developers and UX designers in three months. Watch the live webinar to: Hear from Martin Ramsin, CTO and founder ofContinue Reading →- Liz EgglestonUpdated on March 19, 2019Antonio Raynor had a Computer Science degree from East Carolina and a career in software development; but he knew that the tech market was trending towards web development. He was excited to find out that Coder Foundry was a bootcamp right in the North Carolina area that could teach him the web skills he would need to advance ...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on March 3, 2015Evgeny Shadchnev is a classically trained software developer, with undergraduate and post-grad degrees in computer science. As he started assembling development teams, he was struck by the lack of qualified developers on the market. In response, he co-founded Makers Academy in London to turn beginners with an interest in code into ...Continue Reading →
- Harry HantelUpdated on December 15, 2016Welcome to the February 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 Are Coding Bootcamps a&nb...Continue Reading →
- Harry HantelUpdated on March 2, 2015Launch Academy is a 10-week, full-time, immersive bootcamp in Boston, Massachusetts. Launch Academy’s web development bootcamp instructs students in the language of Ruby on Rails and focuses on long term education and real project based learning. Students are granted access to an extensive career support system after gra...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on February 27, 2015We recently sat down with Chris Beck, the head of mentorship at Bloc. With over 20 years of experience in software development under his belt, Chris was previously VP of Engineering at Privia Health, a DC health-tech company before joining Bloc. Chris has been a Bloc mentor for years, and joined full-time following Bloc's Series A fun...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on February 27, 2015Since Course Report is based in New York, so we try to attend as many bootcamp hiring days and student presentations as possible. A couple weeks ago, I went to the Fullstack Academy hiring night at their new classroom in New York's Financial D...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on February 27, 2015What makes for the ideal coding bootcamp student? Experience? Perserverence? Natural Skill? We've compiled advice from instructors and founders at top programming bootcamps like gSchool, Dev Bootcamp, Wyncode, and Fullstack Academy- aka the folks making admissions decisions every day. Read on for the 8 qualities that bootcamps tell us they look for in potential appl...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on February 26, 2015Jeff was working in sales, but looking for a career change. He started using online resources like Codecademy to learn the basics, but he hit a wall in his learning and was looking for an immersive experience. LearningFuze was the closest bootcamp to Jeff’s home in Orange County and after talking to founders Fabian and Bill, he...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on February 25, 2015Marlon Doomen was a visual designer who wanted to expand her skillset and add UX Design to her toolbox. So she enrolled in the online, mentored UX Design course at CareerFoundry. Marlon tells us about her experience communicating with her mentor, balancing a full-time job with the course, and what she's been able to acc...Continue Reading →
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- Liz EgglestonUpdated on February 25, 2015Coding Dojo provides an immersive 12-week onsite and online coding bootcamp for aspiring web developers in Seattle and Silicon Valley. The team recently hosted a Tech Talk for Coding Dojo students at their Silicon Valley bootcamp, featuring Mark Otto and Connor Sears, forme...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on February 23, 2015Sagar received his Bachelor’s degree in business finance and worked in the financial industry prior to attending law school. After trying several online learning platforms and even completing the early stages of Dev Bootcamp’s Phase 0, Sagar shifted gears and started at CodeUnion, the online programming bootcamp run by ...Continue Reading →
- 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 →
