On the Course Report Coding Bootcamp News Roundup, we keep you up to date with the blossoming coding bootcamp industry. This November, we're covering the WeWork/Flatiron School acquisition, over $2M in funding to various bootcamps, and why tech is booming in "Heartland" cities. Of course we also look at new schools, new campuses, and our favorite pieces to work on this month for the Course Report blog! Plus, is The Iron Yard back from the dead? Read the summary or listen to the podcast.
Coworking space Knotel has teamed up with Galvanize coding bootcamp to share customers and education resources.
Two former execs of The Iron Yard, a bootcamp which closed down earlier this year, are opening Momentum Learning in Durham, North Carolina.
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The Post Gazette, MyStatesman and CBS looked at research from the Brookings Institute, which shows that more and more jobs are requiring digital skills.
Patrick Sisson from Curbed wrote about how technology is changing society, but education and local economic development initiatives aren’t keeping pace. He suggests that cities expand training and apprenticeship programs, subsidize slots at coding schools, and support organizations as well as hackathons that encourage and support diversity in tech.
SwissInfo highlights how Coding schools are cropping up in Switzerland as a fast track to in-demand jobs and how some bootcamps are focused on helping refugees looking for a career change.
eLearningInside describes Steve Wozniak’s WozU bootcamp as being “part of” the Southern Careers Institute, a for-profit educational institution, and looks at how the lack of information about actual tuition costs has only increased the skepticism some have expressed.
According to Philly Mag and Philly BizJournals, Trilogy bootcamp is opening at the University of Pennsylvania. This will be Trilogy’s 28th partnership.
Jeff Casimir from Turing School walked Liz through how an application gets developed from business requirements, to front end, to back end, to data and ops, and explained how to decide which part of the stack is right for you.
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Lauren enjoyed listening to Liz moderate the Building Diversity in Bootcamps podcast with the COO of Flatiron School Kristi Jordan, and a Flatiron Grad now Spotify iOS Engineer, Susan Lovaglio.
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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