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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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  Q&A with Jeff Dean, Instructor at gSchool

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on February 27, 2014

  gSchool is a Rails-based bootcamp based in Colorado, set in the middle of exciting Galvanize Labs, and is one of the only six-month immersive bootcamps in the US. We talk with gSchool instructor Jeff Dean about his history at Pivotal Labs, why he believes six months is necessary to...

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  Interview with Kevin Wang, founder of Tealeaf Academy

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on July 12, 2018

  NOTE: This Q&A may be outdated. Tealeaf Academy is now Launch School. Tealeaf Academy is an online, Rails bootcamp that offers three robust courses in web development for students with varying levels of experience....

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  Interview with Iron Yard Grad Andy Flack, Barista-Turned-Developer!

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on February 20, 2014

  Andy Flack is a classic zero-to-sixty student...with a twist. When Andy started at Iron Yard in 2013, he was a retired coffee mule (you read that correctly) with absolutely no technical experience. Within two months of graduation, he had a full-time job as a Front-End Developer at...

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  Meet David, a software development manager who LOVES hiring junior devs from bootcamps.

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on February 20, 2014

  David Basarab is a hiring manager at Cinemassive in Atlanta who works with the Software Craftsmanship Guild to hire talented .NET developers. Find out what he's looking for in a junior developer, how his relationship with SWCG is structured, and why he sees bootcamp-grads better prepared for...

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  Interview with Hackbright alum (& Indiegogo engineer!) Siena Aguayo

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on February 17, 2014

  Siena Aguayo was a project manager at a tech company when she decided it was time to pursue programming- she chose Hackbright Academy because of the supportive community. We chat with Siena about why she chose a Python-focused school, how she prepared for interviews, and how Hackbright's women-only policy is helping...

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  Eric Wise of Software Craftsmanship Guild on Accrediting Coding Schools

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on February 14, 2014

  With the recent attention on coding bootcamps in California and pressure to comply with the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education, we wondered if any coding schools in the US had gone through this accreditation process and what it meant to them. Turns out, the Software Craftsmanship Guild took the steps to become regulated by the Ohio State Boa...

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  Interview with Jason & Josh of Metis

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on February 12, 2014

  What do you do once you've established yourself as a top-notch web consultancy in Rails apps? If you're thoughtbot, you collaborate with Kaplan to create Metis, a 12-week Ruby on Rails course, to fuel the next generation of developers.  We caught up with Josh Steiner (of thoughtbot) and Jason Mo...

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  Q&A With Duncan Logan, Founder of RocketSpace & RocketU

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on February 12, 2014

  In January 2011, Duncan Logan founded RocketSpace, a tech-accelerator for funded companies based in San Francisco.  Since opening its doors, RocketSpace now supports over 500 companies, all contributing to the flourishing community that call RocketSpace their home. Six months ago, they broke onto the education scene with RocketU, a world-class developer bootcamp, where graduating st...

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  Interview with Darrell Silver, Founder of Thinkful

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on February 11, 2014

  Darrell Silver and Dan Friedman founded Thinkful to add the human element back into online learning, combining an online curriculum with over 100 mentors to teach over 1000 students.   We talk with Darrell about the Thinkful mentor network, their project-based approach to teaching, and his take on becoming an ac...

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