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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 →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on February 24, 2017Quinton Fults served in AmeriCorps in a variety of roles from child life specialist, to nutrition and math teacher. After finishing his service, he realized that coding may be the best next step so he enrolled in courses at a local community college. After one week, he dropped the course because he was introduced to Orange County-based coding bootcamp,Continue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on September 17, 2021We know that 93% of Thinkful alumni are getting jobs at companies like Intel, BBC News, and PeopleVine, and that the online bootcamp even offers a job guarantee for their Flexible and Full TimeContinue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on February 23, 2017After earning his history degree from Columbia, Conor Sweeney was at a career crossroads. It seemed like none of his job applications were reaching recruiters, so after reading an article about coding bootcamps, he decided to give it a shot. TurnToTech in NYC was the best fit for his flexible learning needs and app building amb...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on February 23, 2017Today we're diving into a question that we get all the time – "How do you get the most out of your first job after a coding bootcamp?” We sat down with Miami-based Wyncode coding bootcamp alum, Jon Rose, who works at CareCloud and his supervisor, Ricardo Morales, to find the answers. CareCloud is a cloud-based electronic health re...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on February 16, 2017Online coding bootcamp Thinkful has recently expanded into Data Science! We sat down with Head of Education, Grae Drake, and Lead Data Science Instructor, Alex Nussbacher, to learn more about their new online Flexible Data Science Bootcamp. If you’re interested in data science but feel you don’t have enough flexibility to learn f...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on April 30, 2019Anne loved helping people as a college counselor, but she always felt like there was something missing in her own career. After a friend urged her to think about UX design, Anne realized she could combine her creativity and psychology skills, so she enrolled at Designation UX Design bootcamp in Chicago (nowContinue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on October 21, 2020Jenny Pletner worked as a program manager in the tech industry and even managed teams of developers, but she always wanted to work on the software development side of the industry. See why Jenny decided to learn to code in San Diego at LEARN Academy, how she’s navigating the career change as a woman in tech, and how she land...Continue Reading →
