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  Student Spotlight: Bethany Qiang of Fullstack Academy Remote

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on December 8, 2016

  Beth Qiang studied science at college and was working in data analytics when she discovered her love for coding. She started teaching herself, then realized coding was a viable career path so she enrolled in Fullstack Academy’s Remote Software Engineering Immersive. Beth is now a month into the program, and really enjoying pa...

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  Why Progressive Hires Devs from Tech Elevator

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on December 7, 2016

  Jane Gundlach is the IT Manager at Progressive Insurance in Cleveland, and get this– Progressive has hired eight Tech Elevator grads in less than one year! We had to find out what makes this partnership so fruitful, so we sat down with Jane to learn what it takes to land a tech role at P...

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  Alumni Spotlight: Adam Kornfield of TurnToTech

  

  Lauren Stewart

  Updated on December 6, 2016

  4% of bootcampers learn to code in order to start their own business, and that includes Adam Kornfield– the CTO and co-founder of Baron Fig, a notebook company for thinkers. He chose to attend TurnToTech’s mobile development bootcamp in NYC, where he spent 3.5 days a week for 4.5 months learning the tech skills needed to build a mob...

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  Student Spotlight: Madison Kerndt of Turing School

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on December 3, 2024

  Madison was working in marketing for a startup, and after a lot of interactions with the tech team, she realized that she wanted to learn more about coding. She asked her Denver network about different coding schools, and everyone seemed to recommend Turing School. Madison is now six  months into...

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  Cracking the Coding Bootcamp Interview: Software Guild

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on January 4, 2022

  The Software Guild offers their pre-work course for free to anyone who is interested in applying to the coding bootcamp. We asked the Software Guild admissions team to explain the new pre-work offering, and give us some tips and hints for getting through Software Guild’s unique admissions and interview process. Find out about the...

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  Why a UI Designer is Not a UX Designer

  

  Sean Beaubien

  Updated on April 11, 2024

  UX? UI? So you’ve seen the acronyms everywhere, but now you’re wondering what exactly is the difference between the two terms? And to make it even more confusing, just what is a UX/UI designer? Some kind of un...

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  Our Deep Dive into General Assembly's First Outcomes Report

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on February 7, 2020

  While General Assembly has been training developers and designers since 2012, they released their first student...

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  Episode 9: November 2016 News Roundup + Podcast

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on July 16, 2021

    Welcome to the November 2016 Course Report monthly coding bootcamp news roundup! Each month, we look at all the happenings from the coding bootcamp world from new bootcamps to fundraising announcements, to interesting trends. This month we cover a big bootcamp rebrand, the UN getting involved with coding bootcamps, the debate about CS degrees vs bootcamps, ethics in programming and how t...

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  Instructor Spotlight: Liz Howard of Galvanize

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on November 30, 2016

  Liz Howard is a coding bootcamp veteran; before landing at Galvanize as a Curriculum Developer, she was a founding instructor at Hackbright Academy and taught at Tradecraft. And at Galvanize, she’s found a unique support system for instructors that emphasizes blended learning and iterating to keep up with changing technology. Liz sit...

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  Alumni Spotlight: Lexus of We Can Code IT

  

  Lauren Stewart

  Updated on November 29, 2016

  Lexus Davis specialized in technology engineering and innovation management before jumping into the tech scene. Not satisfied in her construction management position, and realizing most of the new positions she was interested in required some type of programming language, she decided to learn to code. Find out about Lexus’ experience learning full stack web development at...

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