We read a lot of news about coding bootcamps in May 2018, so we chose the most interesting pieces, and we’re rounding it all up for you in this blog post and podcast! We look at yet another coding bootcamp acquisition, share many wonderful success stories about coding bootcamp graduates, touch on some partnerships between bootcamps and companies, and discuss the role of coding bootcamps in the future of education and talent pipelines. We also chat about diversity in tech at coding bootcamps, and roundup all the new schools, courses, and campuses! Read the roundup below, or listen to the podcast!
Rad Awakenings’ Khemaridh Hy interviewed a former San Quentin prison inmate named Chris Shumacher who went through The Last Mile coding course while in prison, and built and launched a successful fitness app.
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner announced that the City of Houston has partnered with Microsoft to create the nation's first "Internet of Things" alliance. Flatiron School is opening in downtown Houston and offering scholarships in cooperation with Facebook and the Houston Urban League.
BP is sending engineers to 12-week coding bootcamps as part of a move to automate more aspects of the oil industry. Field engineers are retraining to gain the skills to program those automated processes to be even more efficient.
Stefan Palios of Betakit looked at the Canadian coding bootcamp scene and how employers require good developers who know how to code AND have good people skills.
The EdTech Times podcast talked to General Assembly’s VP of external affairs Liz Simon, about how the bootcamp prepares adults for the next step in their careers, and whether or not a program like GA needs to be accredited.
Princeton Alumni Weekly looks at sexism in Silicon Valley, talks to female professors about why there is a lack of women wanting to study computer science, and a female Princeton grad who didn’t major in CS, because she assumed she wouldn’t like computers, but later enrolled at Hackbright Academy and got a job at Eventbrite.
Document Journal interviewed two innovative women in tech, Fereshteh Forough, founder of Code to Inspire – the first coding school for girls in Afghanistan – and Barbara Liskov, one of the first women in the United States to earn a PhD in computer science.
Businesswire announced that coding bootcamps Re:Coded and Refugees{code} have been selected for the Miller Center Social Entrepreneurship at the Margins (SEM) course, a mentorship program focused on scaling social enterprises serving migrants, refugees, and human trafficking survivors.
Inside Higher Ed and Education Dive profiled Trilogy Education, looking at how students felt “blindsided” when they realized the program instruction was outsourced, rather than being run by the host university, and mentioned that Trilogy bootcamps do not release their outcomes data, unlike many other bootcamps.
Mined Mines, the bootcamp for coal miners transitioning into tech, appears to be back – Williamson Daily News looks at how the free bootcamp is offering courses in Logan County, West Virginia, beginning in summer 2018.
Lauren loved chatting with DevMountain alum Sterling Chin about his transition from a facilities and vendor manager to a developer. Sterling told us how he wanted to provide for his wife and two young children, and how he overcame feelings of anxiety, depression, and imposter syndrome to land a job at a startup for three months after graduation, and then as a Front End Developer at Overstock.com the biggest tech company in Utah.
Imogen Crispe
I really enjoyed interviewing Manisha Patel, a Hackbright grad who now works at Reddit! Her background was in fine arts, and she worked in project management at Apple, but was always fascinated by her coworkers who were engineers. She loved her experience at Hackbright, and now she’s working alongside other Hackbright grads at Reddit, a company which she says is committed to diversity and inclusion, and is actually partnering with Hackbright to offer a scholarship.
Liz Eggleston
Liz put together a great Guide to Swift, in collaboration with Andrew Madsen a Swift expert who is an instructor at Lambda School. The article covers the history of Swift, the debate between Swift vs Objective-C, what Swift is used for, and how to get started learning it.
Imogen is a writer and content producer who loves writing about technology and education. Her background is in journalism, writing for newspapers and news websites. She grew up in England, Dubai and New Zealand, and now lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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