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Liz EgglestonUpdated on December 12, 2014When Ben Gogge decided to work on his own startup, he knew he would need the technical skills to launch the product. He needed a flexible approach to learning web development, so he decided to try Career Foundry, the online, mentored training program. Ben is in the first weeks of his Career Foundry course, and tells us about...Continue Reading →- Liz EgglestonUpdated on December 12, 2014Sara Ines Calderon noticed in her startup job that technical skills made employees an "invaluable asset wherever you go," and Sara "wanted to be indispensable." So she drew on her networking connections and met Lilliana and Gregorio, the "mom & pop" founders of Sabio in Los Angeles, California. She is now a stu...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on November 27, 2024Sara Simon was working in communications at a software development firm, but had no technical background when she applied to the Turing School in Denver, Colorado. She is now in her third module at Turing- we talk to Sara about her search for the right bootcamp, the Turing application, and get a peek at a pro...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on December 11, 2014A former coffee roaster in Seattle, Perry Hook realized that he needed to put his Computer Science degree to work. He was familiar with CS theories, but had never learned a programming language, so he enrolled in the Code Fellows Python Development Accelerator to get experience building real web apps. We talk to Perry...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on December 8, 2014Dave Nelson attended DevPoint Labs, the 11-week coding and entrepreneur bootcamp in Silicon Slopes, Utah, and now works as a Junior Developer at Crowd Engine. He tells us about his journey to become a developer, the teaching style at DevPoint Labs, and how to avoid burnout in an intensive coding bootcamp!Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on February 8, 2021Oscar Cisneros was at a job with little opportunity for growth when he was encouraged to learn programming by a tech recruiter. After reading about Anyone Can Learn to Code (now called Actualize) in Chicago, Oscar decided to take the plunge. He's now working as a developer at startup CancerIQ and says "things couldn’t have worked ou...Continue Reading →
- Josh BreigerUpdated on December 5, 2014While coding bootcamps are designed to be cost-effective alternatives to a conventional education in Computer Programming, prospective students still need to carefully manage their finances. As many leave their full-time jobs to attend, money is often tight for the average coding bootcamp student, and given the full-time requirements of most programs...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on December 3, 2024Having worked professionally with C++, Java, COBOL, PHP, and Microsoft platforms early in his career, Dave Strus became obsessed with the Ruby language in 2004. Now, when he's not running his web and mobile app consultancy, Fretless, he teaches at Eleven Fifty in Indianapolis. We talk to Dave abo...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on December 1, 2014Chelsea Dommert moved to Chicago specifically to attend Anyone Can Learn to Code, a part-time, intensive web development bootcamp. The risk paid off- with her new skills, she is starting as a web developer at Pivotal Labs today! We talk to Chelsea about the teaching style at Anyone Can Learn to Code, how her past experie...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on November 26, 2014We’re coming to the end of another year, Christmas is around the corner and in the New Year our thoughts will turn once more to new jobs, fresh starts and doing all of those things we’ve been promising ourselves all year. So it’s time to start thinking NOW about what you want to be different NEXT YEAR. Is it time to retrain, upgrade your current skillset or try something completely di...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on November 21, 2014Since graduating from Dev Bootcamp in October 2013, Katy Exline has landed a job as a software developer at Chicago-based startup Fooda and became co-leader of Girl Develop It Chicago. We talk to Katy about her experience at Dev Bootcamp, the instructors and teaching style, an...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on November 21, 2014Since raising $18 million in June to broaden its education focus, Galvanize has made major moves in the bootcamp space, including the launch of GalvanizeU and the acquisition of popular data science bootcamp Zipfian Academy. Mike Tamir, Head of GalvanizeU, talks to us about both projects- we get the scoop on the broader vision of data science ed...Continue Reading →
- Cameron BuckinghamUpdated on November 19, 2014Cameron Buckingham is a student at gSchool, a 6-month coding school in Colorado. He blogs each week about his experience at gSchool- in his final post, Cameron gives future bootcamp students three pieces of valuable advice. Congrats and good luck, Cameron!Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on November 19, 2014Brian was a touring Texas singer-songwriter when he had an idea for an internet radio station app. He found MakerSquare in Austin and decided he would learn to build the app himself. We talk to Brian about his motivations for changing his career, what he would do differently, and how his class worked together throughou...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on February 8, 2021If you have a quantitative PhD and want to transition from academia to Data Science, you have a surprising number of options. One such option is Science to Data Science (S2DS), a 6-week fellowship in London to train students in the commercial tools and techniques needed to be hired into...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on November 13, 2014Lauren Scott is a poet, Dev Bootcamp Chicago graduate, developer at BradsDeals, and organizer for RailsBridge Chicago. In short, she's a busy contributor to the Chicago dev scene and we were lucky to catch up with her to chat about her experience. We talk to Lauren about learning to code with a humanities background, why it's i...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on November 12, 2014Working out of Galvanize in Denver, Cory Lanou informally mentored gSchool students before he was even officially involved with the program. When the opportunity arose to teach the Go language at gSchool, Cory got to work. We talk to Cory about Go, the general-purpose programming language that is in high-demand in c...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on November 10, 2014Ivan Storck has been teaching professionally and helping clients with web development since 2001. An early hire at Code Fellows, Ivan helped get the curriculum off the ground for the first courses. Now, he is helping expand Code Fellows into new markets, starting with Portland, Oregon. We talk to Ivan about his background,...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on December 4, 2024Welcome to the October 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 →
