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  5 Reasons Data Skills are Useful for Everyone

  

  Aaron Filous

  Updated on February 3, 2020

  So you’ve heard companies talk about how important data is to their operations and revenue. Everyone from Fortune 500 companies to small startups seems to talk about being “data-driven” or using “big data.” But if you’re not planning to become a data scientist, do you really need to learn how to manip...

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  Meet a Machine Learning Mentor: Srdjan Santic from Springboard

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  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on October 21, 2020

  Srdjan is a mentor with Springboard’s online Machine Learning Engineering Career Track and...

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  The Bootcamper's Guide to Meetup

  

  The Team at Suncoast Developers Guild

  Updated on March 21, 2019

  There are numerous free ways to brand and market yourself as a web developer online. The more apparent platforms are Github, creating a portfolio and/or blog, and social media channels like LinkedIn. But with over 10 million web development members, Meetup can serve as an incred...

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  General Assembly’s New Campus in Stamford, CT

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on September 30, 2024

  Editor’s note: General Assembly stopped accepting new consumer enrollments on April 28, 2026. This article describes programs and experiences from before that change. Read General Assembly’s official notice. General Assembly is partnering with the Connecticut government to launch their Software Engineering and Data Science progra...

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  Balancing Full-Time Work with Learning to Code at Hackbright Academy

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on March 19, 2019

  Takia’s background involved biology, robotics, and automation, but she was ready to expand into coding as a career. She initially took Hackbright Academy’s Prep course, but decided not to pursue their full-time program as she didn’t want to quit her job. When...

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  The Essentials of Flatiron School’s New Income Share Agreement

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on May 23, 2023

  As of January 1, 2021, Flatiron School no longer offers ISAs. Flatiron School recently launched a new Income Share Agreement (ISA) program to its suite of financing options for in-person programs. Under this program, students don’t pay for their education until they leave the school and earn a minimum of $40,000 per year. We...

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  Online Coding Bootcamp Cost Comparison

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on December 4, 2024

  The landscape of online coding bootcamps is vast – ranging from $30/month subscriptions to full-time bootcamps that cost around $20,000. And many online coding programs now offer Income Share Agreements (ISA), which adds another layer of complexity when comparing online coding bootcamp costs. In addition to flexibility, remote code bootcamps cost less than in-person bootcamps – the average onlin...

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  Landing an IoT Job with React Skills from LearningFuze

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on March 7, 2019

  Steffany’s 10 years in IT and project management gave her a taste of the coding world – enough that she started teaching herself to code. She eventually enrolled in LearningFuze’s 12-week full-time immersive bootcamp in Irvine, California to launch a career in front end development! Steffany...

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  Is the Job Market for Junior Developers Oversaturated?

  

  The Fullstack Academy Careers Team

  Updated on August 15, 2019

  As coding bootcamps become more ubiquitous, it’s easy to think the need for developers is shrinking, and markets are becoming oversaturated with newly graduated junior engineers. But is that really the case, or is the demand for developers continuing to grow? We asked the Career Success t...

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  February 2019 Coding Bootcamp Podcast

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on March 1, 2019

  In February we heard some interesting debates about the ethics of data science, how bootcamps are partnering with universities, and companies like Infosys and Google, and how the number of tech education options in Africa is growing! Plus, Thinkful attempted to predict the Oscars, the Ohio L...

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