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  Choosing the Right Career Track with Startup Institute

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on September 14, 2016

  Our team at Course Report heard about program changes at Startup Institute—from pre-work to instructors to outcomes—so we sat down with Vice President of Admissions Katie Bickford to get the details. Read what we learned about the additional support...

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  Alumni Spotlight: Addison Fuller of DevPoint Labs

  

  Lauren Stewart

  Updated on February 8, 2021

  Burnt out from his professional cycling career, Addison’s path was rerouted to DevPoint Labs’ two month UX Design bootcamp in Salt Lake City, UT. Always an avid fan of the Health industry, he decided to turn his sights to tech in order to solve a deep problem. Since his brother had the coding skills, he decided to learn UX design...

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  Alumni Spotlight: Wendy Yu of NYC Data Science Academy

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on September 12, 2016

  Wendy was a biologist studying the sense of smell when she started using machine learning in her research. She liked it and wanted to learn more about algorithms and statistics, so she enrolled at NYC Data Science Academy (NYCDSA). Now Wendy is working as a Data Scientist at ASCAP, predicting trends in the music ind...

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  Why We Hire from Turing School: Chris from Granicus

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on December 1, 2025

  Want to know what employers really think about hiring bootcamp grads? We sat down with Chris, Engineering Manager at Granicus, a software development firm for government agencies, to see why he loves to hire Turing School grads. With a nontraditional developer background hi...

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  Cracking the Bootcamp Interview: The Data Incubator

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on May 15, 2024

  The Data Incubator is an intensive eight-week data science bootcamp which trains people with STEM backgrounds to become in-demand data scientists. With an acceptance rate of just 2%, we wanted to find out what the application process is like, and the types of applicants that...

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  Instructor Spotlight: Eric Johnson of LearningFuze

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on September 7, 2016

  Eric Johnson started programming in the “dot-com” days, and has worked since February 2015 as a senior instructor and developer at LearningFuze, which is a web-development bootcamp and code school in Orange County (Irvine), CA. We talk to Eric about hiring developers without Computer Science degrees, the types of jobs LearningF...

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  Alumni Spotlight: Danny Dawson of Flatiron School

  

  Lauren Stewart

  Updated on September 6, 2016

  Danny Dawson is not your average programmer. He went straight into the British Army after high school where he focused on telecommunications design. That telecommunications background led him to start a telecommunications and e-commerce business in London. See why Danny chose to attend NYC coding bootcamp Flatiron School through...

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  Alumni Spotlight: Alex Thetford of CareerFoundry

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on September 2, 2016

  Alex was a printer and graphic designer in the UK, and a teacher in Thailand before he moved to the states and decided to learn to code. He started CareerFoundry’s six-month remote Web Development Program in January, and studied part time while working full time as a dog walker in NYC. Alex tells us why online bootcamp...

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  Student Spotlight: Ricardo D'Alessandro of MakerSquare

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on September 1, 2016

  As an immigrant from the Dominican Republic who grew up loving computers, Ricardo originally studied civil engineering in case he had to return home to get a job. But after the recession reduced the number of exciting civil engineering jobs available in the US, Ricardo decided to revisit his passion for coding and enroll at...

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  August 2016 Coding Bootcamp News Roundup + Podcast

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on December 4, 2024

  Welcome to the August 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 big fundraising announcements, to interesting trends. This month the biggest news is the Department of Education's EQUIP pilot program to provide federal financial aid to some bootcamp students. Other trends include job pla...

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