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  Alumni Spotlight: Matt Downs of DigitalCrafts

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on March 1, 2017

  Matt Downs was a rice farmer and English teacher in Japan for 14 years before returning to the United States to change careers and pursue tech at DigitalCrafts. In learning Japanese, Matt had weighed the benefits of self-teaching vs immersive courses, and found that learning to code on his own had the same limitations. See why Ma...

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  Alumni Spotlight: Karen Nemeth of SPICED Academy

  

  Lauren Stewart

  Updated on October 21, 2020

  After a tech industry career in project management operations and recruiting, Karen Nemeth decided it was time for a change. She was ready to build out her own app ideas, so inspired by several friends who were developers, she figured the best route was to learn to code herself. See why Karen moved away from the U.S. and ended up learning to code at...

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  Alumni Spotlight: Quinton Fults of Redwood Code Academy

  

  Lauren Stewart

  Updated on February 24, 2017

  Quinton Fults served in AmeriCorps in a variety of roles from child life specialist, to nutrition and math teacher. After finishing his service, he realized that coding may be the best next step so he enrolled in courses at a local community college. After one week, he dropped the course because he was introduced to Orange County-based coding bootcamp,...

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  How to Get a Job After an Online Bootcamp with Thinkful

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  Lauren Stewart

  Updated on September 17, 2021

    We know that 93% of Thinkful alumni are getting jobs at companies like Intel, BBC News, and PeopleVine, and that the online bootcamp even offers a job guarantee for their Flexible and Full Time Web Development Bootcamp. But how does an online bootcamp help people find real jobs in cities around...

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  Alumni Spotlight: Conor Sweeney from TurnToTech

  

  Lauren Stewart

  Updated on February 23, 2017

  After earning his history degree from Columbia, Conor Sweeney was at a career crossroads. It seemed like none of his job applications were reaching recruiters, so after reading an article about coding bootcamps, he decided to give it a shot. TurnToTech in NYC was the best fit for his flexible learning needs and app building ambition...

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  How to Get the Most Out of Your First Coding Job After Wyncode

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on February 23, 2017

  Today we're diving into a question that we get all the time – "How do you get the most out of your first job after a coding bootcamp?” We sat down with Miami-based Wyncode coding bootcamp alum, Jon Rose, who works at CareCloud and his supervisor, Ricardo Morales, to find the answers. CareCloud is a cloud-based electronic...

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  Curriculum Spotlight: Thinkful’s Flexible Data Science Bootcamp

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on February 16, 2017

  Online coding bootcamp Thinkful has recently expanded into Data Science! We sat down with Head of Education, Grae Drake, and Lead Data Science Instructor, Alex Nussbacher, to learn more about their new online Flexible Data Science Bootcamp. If you’re interested in data science but feel you don’t have enough flexibility to learn fu...

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  Alumni Spotlight: Anne Levy of Designation

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on April 30, 2019

  Anne loved helping people as a college counselor, but she always felt like there was something missing in her own career. After a friend urged her to think about UX design, Anne realized she could combine her creativity and psychology skills, so she enrolled at Designation UX Design bootcamp in Chicago (now...

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  Alumni Spotlight: Jenny Pletner of LEARN Academy

  

  Lauren Stewart

  Updated on October 21, 2020

  Jenny Pletner worked as a program manager in the tech industry and even managed teams of developers, but she always wanted to work on the software development side of the industry. See why Jenny decided to learn to code in San Diego at LEARN Academy, how she’s navigating the career change as a woman in tech, and how she landed he...

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  Final Project Spotlight: Michael Miller-Hairston of Coder Camps

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on February 10, 2017

  Michael Miller-Hairston found a passion for coding during his degree in digital culture, then taught himself to code while waiting tables. He almost went back to college to study computer science, then came across Coder Camps and enrolled at their Phoenix, Arizona campus. Michael tells us about O Source, the project his Coder Camps...

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