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Liz EgglestonUpdated on May 15, 2024Jeff Konowitch is a self-taught software developer who launched his career in an apprenticeship, so he can relate to his career-changing students. As an instructor in the Part-Time Front End Development course at General Assembly, Jeff emphasizes objective-driven teaching and learning by doing. Learn more about Jeff’s teaching style atContinue Reading →- Lauren StewartUpdated on March 8, 2017Sean Mee was a restaurant server before deciding to learn to code at Southern California coding bootcamp LearningFuze. He had started teaching himself to code when he was 13, and decided to revisit his passion for coding after discovering an intensive bootcamp would accelerate the web developer coding skills that employers se...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on September 11, 2018After a liberal arts degree, Laurel Korwin wasn’t sure what career to pursue, so tried her hand at financial research. Living in San Francisco, she eventually transitioned into a technology company but became frustrated that she didn’t have the tech skills to solve problems. A friend told her about Hackbright Academy, s...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on September 16, 2020[Disclaimer: New York Code & Design Academy is now closed, but we still think this video is useful for anyone deciding between a part-time and a full-time bootcamp.] Many coding bootcamps offer full-time and part-time programs, so how do you choose? Will you get the same education in either program? We asked two New York Code + Design Academy alumni to compare their experiences and...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on March 3, 2017Unlike many web development bootcamps, data science programs often require some background knowledge in statistics and coding. So we’re diving into the admissions process at data science bootcamp Metis, and getting insights from alumni Deepak and Emily, who explain their journeys from the Metis interview to their new jobs at Facebook and Etsy. ...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on March 2, 2017Flatiron School has been educating web developers in their NYC Software Engineering Immersive since 2012. But ...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on April 7, 2021Coding bootcamps are achieving what few other educational models have seen: a high return on investment (64% salary lift, anyone?). But without clear reporting from individual schools around these outcomes, students and policymakers can't make informed decisions. In 2016, a coalition of b...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on March 1, 2017Here’s what we found ourselves reading and discussing in the Course Report office in February 2017! We found out the three most in-demand programming languages, we read about how coding could be the new blue collar job, and looked at how new schools are tweaking the bootcamp model to fit their communities. Plus, we hear about a cool app for NBA fans built by coding bootcamp graduates! Read ...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on March 1, 2017Matt Downs was a rice farmer and English teacher in Japan for 14 years before returning to the United States to change careers and pursue tech at DigitalCrafts. In learning Japanese, Matt had weighed the benefits of self-teaching vs immersive courses, and found that learning to code on his own had the same limitations. See w...Continue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on October 21, 2020After a tech industry career in project management operations and recruiting, Karen Nemeth decided it was time for a change. She was ready to build out her own app ideas, so inspired by several friends who were developers, she figured the best route was to learn to code herself. See why Karen moved away from the U.S. and ended up learning to code atContinue Reading →
