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  4 Obstacles You’ll Overcome While Learning to Code

  

  Avi Flombaum

  Updated on October 3, 2017

  Learning to code is tough when you’re a beginner. There is so much information to sort through and it can feel like you’ll never learn enough to become a legitimate developer. But if you know what to expect before you start, then you’ll be prepared for these inevitable challenges....

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  Student Spotlight: Swati Gupta of Holberton School

  

  Lauren Stewart

  Updated on September 29, 2017

  Swati Gupta studied psychology in college and worked as a counselor in New Delhi, India, but when she moved to San Francisco, she was ready for a career change. After much research, self-learning, community college computer science classes, and a nudge from her software engineer husband, Swati chose...

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  September 2017 Coding Bootcamp News + Podcast

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on September 28, 2017

  Need a rundown of everything that happened in the coding bootcamp industry this September? You’re in luck! We’ve collected all the most important news in this blog post and podcast. This month, we kept up with the status of the bootcamp industry, learned about how bootcamps are thriving in smaller markets, and explored different ways to pay for bootcamp. Plus, we added 7 new schools from around...

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  Alumni Spotlight: Jackie Zuker of Thinkful

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on September 27, 2017

  After working as a wildlife biologist for six years, Jackie Zuker went to graduate school for bioinformatics, but when she graduated she couldn’t find a job in her hometown of Auburn, California. She realized she needed data science skills, so she enrolled in...

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  Instructor Spotlight: Collin Miller of Fullstack Academy

  

  Lauren Stewart

  Updated on September 26, 2017

  Collin Miller is a self-taught developer (he actually started building applications in high school)! After leading the Front End Engineering team at The Onion, Collin was itching to teach programming. Now he’s shaping new developers as an Instructor for Fullstack Academy’s 17-week Software Engineering Immersive in Chicago. Lear...

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  Alumni Spotlight: Temple Naylor of The Tech Academy

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on October 21, 2020

  From high school dropout to lead developer for a marketing agency at just 19; Temple Naylor took a huge risk and it paid off. He left school at 16, taught himself to code, then enrolled at The Tech Academy’s online coding bootcamp...

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  All About ISAs: Income Share Agreements and Deferred Tuition at Coding Bootcamps

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on February 4, 2025

  Deferred tuition and income share agreements (ISAs) are becoming more widely available and can be attractive to students who don’t have $20,000 in the bank. ISAs and Deferred Tuition align a school’s incentives with those of their students – essentially, a school isn't successful unless their students get jobs. Plus, deferred tuition and ISAs remove the barrier of an upfront tuition, expanding a...

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  Mentor Spotlight: Ryan Balfanz of Bloc

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on September 20, 2017

  After working at Mint, Netflix, and founding two tech companies, Ryan Balfanz wanted to pay it forward and mentor career changers. Now, as a mentor for Bloc’s online coding bootcamp, Ryan balances his day job as a software engineer at Square with ensuring that his students meet their career goals. Ryan tells us about his background in teach...

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  Node js: An Intro for Beginners

  

  Robert Bunch

  Updated on September 19, 2017

  You may have heard developers talk about Node or Node.js when discussing full-stack JavaScript. But what is Node and should you learn it? We asked DigitalCrafts Lead Instructor, Rob Bunch, to give us an in-depth overview of Node (with beginners in mind)! Rob looks at the origins of Node and how it works with JavaScript, what Node...

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  Alumni Spotlight: Justin Knight of Springboard

  

  Lauren Stewart

  Updated on September 15, 2017

  After spending years in academic research, Justin Knight wanted the skillset to share interesting insights from data. He dabbled in experimental data-driven artwork, then officially transitioned into the data science industry by attending Springboard’s online data science bootcamp. After honing data science skills like SQL, Spark, an...

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