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Imogen CrispeUpdated on October 4, 2017Greg Demaline was no stranger to IT – he spent 17 years programming ice carving machines. But when he decided to transition into web development, he found employers were looking for more experience than he could get from self-teaching. So Greg enrolled in The Software Guild’s online bootcamp and kept working full time while s...Continue Reading →- Avi FlombaumUpdated on October 3, 2017Learning to code is tough when you’re a beginner. There is so much information to sort through and it can feel like you’ll never learn enough to become a legitimate developer. But if you know what to expect before you start, then you’ll be prepared for these inevitable challenges.Continue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on September 29, 2017Swati Gupta studied psychology in college and worked as a counselor in New Delhi, India, but when she moved to San Francisco, she was ready for a career change. After much research, self-learning, community college computer science classes, and a nudge from her software engineer husband, Swati ...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on September 28, 2017Need a rundown of everything that happened in the coding bootcamp industry this September? You’re in luck! We’ve collected all the most important news in this blog post and podcast. This month, we kept up with the status of the bootcamp industry, learned about how bootcamps are thriving in smaller markets, and explored different ways to pay for bootcamp. Plus, we added 7 new schools from ar...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on September 27, 2017After working as a wildlife biologist for six years, Jackie Zuker went to graduate school for bioinformatics, but when she graduated she couldn’t find a job in her hometown of Auburn, California. She realized she needed data science skills, so she enrolled inContinue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on September 26, 2017Collin Miller is a self-taught developer (he actually started building applications in high school)! After leading the Front End Engineering team at The Onion, Collin was itching to teach programming. Now he’s shaping new developers as an Instructor for Fullstack Academy’s 17-week Software Engineering Immersive in Chicago....Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on October 21, 2020From high school dropout to lead developer for a marketing agency at just 19; Temple Naylor took a huge risk and it paid off. He left school at 16, taught himself to code, then enrolled at The Tech Academy’s online coding boot...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on February 4, 2025Deferred tuition and income share agreements (ISAs) are becoming more widely available and can be attractive to students who don’t have $20,000 in the bank. ISAs and Deferred Tuition align a school’s incentives with those of their students – essentially, a school isn't successful unless their students get jobs. Plus, deferred tuition and ISAs remove the barrier of an upfront tuition, expandin...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on September 20, 2017After working at Mint, Netflix, and founding two tech companies, Ryan Balfanz wanted to pay it forward and mentor career changers. Now, as a mentor for Bloc’s online coding bootcamp, Ryan balances his day job as a software engineer at Square with ensuring that his students meet their career goals. Ryan tells us about his background ...Continue Reading →
- Robert BunchUpdated on September 19, 2017You may have heard developers talk about Node or Node.js when discussing full-stack JavaScript. But what is Node and should you learn it? We asked DigitalCrafts Lead Instructor, Rob Bunch, to give us an in-depth overview of Node (with beginners in mind)! Rob looks at the origins of Node and how it works with JavaScript, what...Continue Reading →
