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  Alumni Spotlight: Fehim Hatipoglu, The App Academy

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on July 27, 2015

  Although Fehim Hatipoglu studied electrical engineering at Purdue, he was interested in an iOS coding bootcamp to get a job in mobile development. Since he always wanted to live in Amsterdam, The App Academy was the perfect fit. Having recently finished 9 weeks at The App Academy, we talked to Fehim about the growing Am...

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  Final Project Spotlight: Jordan Kimura of LearningFuze

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on July 27, 2015

  Jordan Kimura already had a solid foundation in design and marketing. Armed with a B.A. in Graphic Design and an M.B.A., Jordan wanted to add web development to her skillset. She knew she wanted an immersive learning experience that offered full-stack development so that she could learn front-end and back-end coding languages to enhance her design scope. She also knew that she wanted some...

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  Student Spotlight: Yulia Barannikova, Byte Academy

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on July 22, 2015

  Yulia Barannikova is a finance major who noticed that the jobs she wanted required programming knowledge, so she enrolled in Byte Academy, a FinTech coding bootcamp in New York. Motivated by the fact that Byte teaches Python and that women are automatically eligible for a $2,000 scholarship, Yulia is now the first female graduate of...

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  CEO Spotlight: Craig Hunter, Bitmaker Labs

  

  Nick Toscano

  Updated on July 21, 2015

  Bitmaker Labs CEO Craig Hunter was an early employee at Uber before joining the Canadian bootcamp in 2014. Since then, he’s helped them grow the business from a single one-course bootcamp to providing seven unique learning experiences.  Hunter walked us through the regulatory process Bitmaker endured to get...

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  Moms Who Code: 9 Tips for Moms Learning to Code

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on July 16, 2024

  Most immersive bootcamps are less than six months and many offer part-time or asynchronous flex options, allowing parents to balance childcare and work commitments with learning to code. But as a mom thinking about a code school, what should you consider before taking the plunge? We've rounded up insights and tips from 18 moms (who are successfu...

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  Student Spotlight: Erik, DevCodeCamp

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on July 17, 2015

    Erik had a degree in Aviation and an MBA when he decided to change careers. He had enough experience with traditional education to know he didn’t want another 4-year degree, so Erik researched coding bootcamps in Milwaukee, and enrolled at DevCodeCamp. We chat with Erik about the “sub-level program” during DevCodeCamp’s appli...

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  Founder Spotlight: Coding Temple

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on July 17, 2015

  Coding Temple is a new .NET coding bootcamp in Chicago using immersive curriculum to prep students for a career in software development. We talk to the team behind Coding Temple- Frank, Ripal and Avi- about preparing for the first cohort in August, why they chose to teach .NET, and the Coding Temple application process.  Who...

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  12 Takeaways from our Women in Coding Bootcamps Panel

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on July 17, 2015

  This Wednesday, our friends at LiquidTalent hosted a spectacular panel of women who discussed their experience at New York coding bootcamps and transitioning into their first jobs. Course Report was lucky to moderate the panel- here are 12 things we learned from this rockstar panel of lady developers!  The Panel: Sarah Michaelson, ...

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  Financing your Bloc Bootcamp with Affirm

  

  Nick Toscano

  Updated on July 17, 2015

  With an influx of career conscious students attracted to the convenience and flexibility offered by online learning, online coding bootcamps are on our radar. One of the final obstacles for students eager to enroll in career-building coding bootcamps is the cost of tuition. For many, this barrier has now been removed. Bloc, one of the lea...

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  Life After Coder Foundry with Alum Philip Weiser

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on July 14, 2015

  In this Live Bootcamp Q&A, we are joined by Philip Weiser who graduated from Coder Foundry, a .NET bootcamp in North Carolina, in March 2015. Philip is now a developer at RIA Solutions Group and is about to start a full-time job at CaptiveAire, so we’re talking all about life after Coder Foundry in addition to his experience...

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