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  My First Week at gSchool

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on March 19, 2014

  Ever wonder what those first couple weeks in an intensive coding bootcamp are like? Paul Wenig is a student at gSchool in Boulder Colorado, and blogs here about his first week... Remember, the Course Report community is eligible for a $500 scholarship to gSchool!   Nothing quite prepares you for the first w...

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  Interview with David & Hannah Jane of Fullstack Academy

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on March 18, 2014

  David Yang and Nimit Maru have been friends for ages, and after many successful years in business, decided to turn their love of educating (and coding) into a full-time gig at Fullstack Academy.  We were so excited to sit down with David and Hannah Jane, a graduate of the first Fullstack cohort and employee...

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  A House Divided: Zeke & Granger, Brogrammers at Flatiron & GA

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on July 12, 2018

  Zeke and Granger Abuhoff are giving new meaning to the term "brogrammers." The brothers are both learning to program at competing bootcamps in New York. Granger attends the WDI program at General Assembly (he transferred from App Academy) and Zeke is almost halfway through his Mobile Development course at...

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  Q&A with Erik Gross of Tech Academy Portland

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on March 10, 2014

  Erik Gross took his background in classroom and practical instruction for the Navy and combined it with his expertise in .NET and Java. Add the clear shortage of talent in the booming Portland IT market, and Erik knew he had a recipe for success. He started the Prosper IT Academy (now Tech Academy Portland) in 201...

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  Webinar Series: General Assembly LA

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on March 7, 2014

  Course Report is kicking off our first webinar series, where we give you the opportunity to get valuable information straight from the source. We started this series with one of the most well-known and established programs in the US, General Assembly. Course Report is joined by Jessica Schneider and Tim Preston of General Assembly- find out what they're looking for in students and the types of o...

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  Q&A with Kevin Yun, founder of Designation

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on July 12, 2018

  Designation is a digital design-focused school in Chicago that helps students with a technical or design background make the shift to digital design jobs. We talk with founder Kevin Yun about the differences between Designation and other web-development bootcamps, the types of applicants they look for, and why it's imp...

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  Rachel Warbelow, Dev Bootcamp Grad, on SWOTbot, the app that will change classrooms everywhere!

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on March 6, 2014

  Like other students, Rachel Warbelow went to Dev Bootcamp in the Summer of 2013 to learn to code. Unlike other students, Rachel was actually a teacher herself. She needed to learn to code in order to launch SWOTbot, an app that automated the manual process she had developed to track and communicate with her students. When we ra...

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  Student Spotlight: Rolen Le at gSchool

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on October 3, 2019

  gSchool is a unique six-month, intensive program based inside the exciting Galvanize community of start ups and innovators. gSchool student Rolen Le dishes the details on how he made sure he was committed to a career in coding, why he chose a six-month school, and how practicing your LS...

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  Interview with Richard Simms of Tech Talent South

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on March 4, 2014

  Richard Simms and Betsy Hauser-Idilbi met at an intensive coding bootcamp in Chicago, became friends, and decided that the South was missing similar opportunities to learn to code. Since then, they've launched Tech Talent South in Atlanta and are adding cohorts in Charlotte, Raleigh, and Asheville. We talked to Ric...

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  Q&A with Mercedes Bent, head of Web Development Immersives for General Assembly

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on May 16, 2024

  Mercedes Bent manages Web Development Immersives globally for General Assembly. The twelve-week, Rails-focused school employs their tried methods of teaching to produce full-stack developers who go on to get hired in the tech community or even launch their own produ...

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