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  Dev Bootcamp's Fundamentals of Web Development with Lucas Willett

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on May 5, 2016

  As of December 8, 2017, Dev Bootcamp will no longer be operating. You may know Phase 0 as the first 9 weeks of Dev Bootcamp’s full 18-week coding bootcamp, but in March 2016, Dev Bootcamp launched the 9-week part-time online program as Fundamentals of Web Development, a standalone prep...

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  Instructor Spotlight: Meng He of Startup Institute

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on May 2, 2016

  Meng He is a volunteer instructor for part of Startup Institute’s immersive Web Design program. She has been a UX designer for eight years, and joined Startup Institute as a way to give back and help out other budding UX designers. Meng tells us about how she grew into a UX designer, wh...

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  Instructor Spotlight: Jim OKelly of Devschool

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on October 21, 2020

  Armed with years of development experience, hundreds of CodeMentor hours, and a deep understanding of remote work, Mexico-based Jim OKelly founded online web development school Devschool in January 2015. Now having graduated several cohorts, Jim sits down with Course Report to talk about the tim...

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  4 Final Projects We Loved at Grace Hopper Academy

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on June 16, 2025

  New York’s MEAN Stack coding bootcamp Grace Hopper Academy just graduated their first all-female cohort, and Course Report attended their hiring day to get a first-hand look at the students’ final projects. The students had about two and a half weeks to work on these projects, then four minutes each to present t...

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  Instructor Spotlight: Kevin Harris of Guild of Software Architects

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on April 26, 2016

  Kevin Harris is the founder and lead instructor of Guild of Software Architects mobile development bootcamp in Frisco, TX. He and his wife started the bootcamp last year with part-time night courses, and they are about to launch a full-time immersive Android program in May 2016, and an iOS program in August 2016. Kev...

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  Instructor Spotlight: Authman Apatira of Coding Dojo

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on April 25, 2016

  Authman was a game and web developer for 22 years before he joined Coding Dojo as an instructor at the Dallas, TX campus (it opened in March 2016). Originally from San Francisco, Authman loves the southern hospitality in Dallas and has made it his new home. He tells us about his previous teaching experience, his faith in the bootcamp...

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  Alumni Spotlight: Larry Fang of Coding Temple

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on April 21, 2016

  Halfway through his college degree in management information systems, Larry realized he wasn’t going to get the technical knowledge he needed for the job he wanted, so he started researching coding bootcamps. So as soon as Larry graduated, he enrolled in Coding Temple coding bootcamp in Chicago to study .NET web development. Now La...

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  Alumni Spotlight: Rachel Smyth of General Assembly

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on April 19, 2016

  Rachel was a touring singer/songwriter, classical musician, and finalist on American Idol before she switched careers to become a developer. After graduating from General Assembly’s Web Development Immersive program in NYC, Rachel landed her dream job as a full stack developer for...

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  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Data Analytics

  

  Kendall Gibson

  Updated on October 21, 2020

  If you asked me two months ago what data analysts do, I most definitely would have given you this clownish answer: “They analyze data.” That’s because I tend to act like a know-it-all, especially when asked seemingly simple questions. Then again, I didn’t know very much about data analysis back then. Now, after finishing a data analytics bootcamp run by...

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  Alumni Spotlight: Scott of DecodeMTL

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on April 14, 2016

  Scott was a school teacher in Montreal for 17 years before he started teaching himself web design and freelancing on the side. When he decided to make the full career change, Scott enrolled in DecodeMTL coding bootcamp in Montreal. Now he is a front end developer for AppDirect and lov...

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