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  • Student Spotlight: Sara, Sabio

    Student Spotlight: Sara, Sabio

    Liz Eggleston
    Liz Eggleston
    Updated on December 12, 2014
    Sara Ines Calderon noticed in her startup job that technical skills made employees an "invaluable asset wherever you go," and Sara "wanted to be indispensable." So she drew on her networking connections and met Lilliana and Gregorio, the "mom & pop" founders of Sabio in Los Angeles, California. She is now a studen...
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  • Student Spotlight: Sara, Turing School

    Student Spotlight: Sara, Turing School

    Liz Eggleston
    Liz Eggleston
    Updated on November 27, 2024
    Sara Simon was working in communications at a software development firm, but had no technical background when she applied to the Turing School in Denver, Colorado. She is now in her third module at Turing- we talk to Sara about her search for the right bootcamp, the Turing application, and get a peek at a projec...
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  • Alumni Spotlight: Perry, Code Fellows

    Alumni Spotlight: Perry, Code Fellows

    Liz Eggleston
    Liz Eggleston
    Updated on December 11, 2014
    A former coffee roaster in Seattle, Perry Hook realized that he needed to put his Computer Science degree to work. He was familiar with CS theories, but had never learned a programming language, so he enrolled in the Code Fellows Python Development Accelerator to get experience building real web apps. We talk to Perry ab...
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  • Alumni Spotlight: Dave, DevPoint Labs

    Alumni Spotlight: Dave, DevPoint Labs

    Liz Eggleston
    Liz Eggleston
    Updated on December 8, 2014
    Dave Nelson attended DevPoint Labs, the 11-week coding and entrepreneur bootcamp in Silicon Slopes, Utah, and now works as a Junior Developer at Crowd Engine. He tells us about his journey to become a developer, the teaching style at DevPoint Labs, and how to avoid burnout in an intensive coding bootcamp!...
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  • Alumni Spotlight: Oscar from Actualize

    Alumni Spotlight: Oscar from Actualize

    Liz Eggleston
    Liz Eggleston
    Updated on February 8, 2021
    Oscar Cisneros was at a job with little opportunity for growth when he was encouraged to learn programming by a tech recruiter. After reading about Anyone Can Learn to Code (now called Actualize) in Chicago, Oscar decided to take the plunge. He's now working as a developer at startup CancerIQ and says "things couldn’t have worked out a...
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  • Instructor Spotlight: Dave Strus, Eleven Fifty

    Instructor Spotlight: Dave Strus, Eleven Fifty

    Liz Eggleston
    Liz Eggleston
    Updated on December 3, 2024
    Having worked professionally with C++, Java, COBOL, PHP, and Microsoft platforms early in his career, Dave Strus became obsessed with the Ruby language in 2004. Now, when he's not running his web and mobile app consultancy, Fretless, he teaches at Eleven Fifty in Indianapolis. We talk to Dave about...
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  • Mike Tamir on GalvanizeU and the Zipfian Acquisition

    Mike Tamir on GalvanizeU and the Zipfian Acquisition

    Liz Eggleston
    Liz Eggleston
    Updated on November 21, 2014
    Since raising $18 million in June to broaden its education focus, Galvanize has made major moves in the bootcamp space, including the launch of GalvanizeU and the acquisition of popular data science bootcamp Zipfian Academy. Mike Tamir, Head of GalvanizeU, talks to us about both projects- we get the scoop on the broader vision of data science educa...
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