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  Alumni Spotlight: Sheldon Smickley of Springboard

  

  Lauren Stewart

  Updated on November 6, 2017

  Sheldon Smickley is the CEO and Founder of Podible, a podcast discovery platform. After a stint in marketing agencies and solutions engineering, Sheldon actually built the prototype for Podible while attending...

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  Alumni Spotlight: Will Jacobson of Fullstack Academy

  

  Lauren Stewart

  Updated on November 2, 2017

  Two years ago, Will Jacobson graduated from Fullstack Academy, and since then he’s worked as a Software Developer at Prescriptive Data and even been promoted to lead their Data Acquisition team! See how the work ethic Will lear...

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  Alumni Spotlight: Connor Ericson of Thinkful

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on November 2, 2017

  During his time as a bootcamp student, Thinkful graduate Connor stepped up his game, and became a leader in the Thinkful community in his hometown of Atlanta! Connor was working full-time as a behavioral therapist while enrolled in Thinkful...

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  Meet Two Winners of the RED Academy Impact Scholarship

  

  Lauren Stewart

  Updated on November 1, 2017

  Canadian tech school RED Academy’s mission is to give opportunities to creators to help them make a meaningful impact on the world. We were excited to find out that RED Academy offers Impact Scholarships to make these opportunitie...

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  October 2017 Coding Bootcamp News + Podcast

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on December 5, 2017

  October 2017 was a busy month for the coding bootcamp industry with news about growing pains in bootcamp outcomes, mergers, acquisitions, investments, a trend towards bootcamp B2B training, and diversity initiatives. To help you out, we’ve collected all the most important news in this blog post and podcast. Plus, we added 12 new schools from around the world to the Course Report school directo...

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  Python: Everything a Beginner Needs to Know

  

  Meggie Mahnken

  Updated on June 12, 2024

  Is Python the “best” first coding language? What can you build with Python and what types of jobs could you get with Python skills? Hackbright Academy’s Director of Fellowship, Meggie M...

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  Learning Computer Science Basics at Lighthouse Labs

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on October 21, 2020

  After getting feedback from alumni and employers, Canadian coding bootcamp Lighthouse Labs has added a computer science unit to their web development and mobile development curriculums. The program lengths have also increased from 8 weeks to 10 weeks as part of the bootcamp’s ongoing goal to remain relevant and competitive. We...

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  General Assembly's Connected Classroom Model in Dallas

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on May 13, 2024

  The General Assembly team saw Austin grads getting web developer roles all over Texas, and realized expanding its offerings to Dallas was a growth opportunity for local talent and employers. General Assembly chose Dallas because of its popu...

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  Alumni Spotlight: Nicholas Peckham of RED Academy

  

  Lauren Stewart

  Updated on October 21, 2020

  Q&A Nicholas Peckham’s career was scattered until he found UX Design: from video production in Los Angeles to photography in Hawaii, phlebotomy in Salt Lake City, to the oil industry in North Dakota. He wanted to get into tech so he taught himself JavaScript, but it didn’t stick. When his friend...

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  Alumni Spotlight: Greg Demaline of The Software Guild

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on October 4, 2017

  Greg Demaline was no stranger to IT – he spent 17 years programming ice carving machines. But when he decided to transition into web development, he found employers were looking for more experience than he could get from self-teaching. So Greg enrolled in The Software Guild’s online bootcamp and kept working full time while studyi...

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