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  3 Must-Know Concepts Before Day 1 at a Coding Bootcamp

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on March 10, 2017

  You got accepted to a coding bootcamp – congrats! But if you want to graduate at the top of your class, then it’s all about prep work. What should you know before day one at a coding bootcamp? We sat down with Fullstack Academy Instructor Gabriel Lebec to find out the top three JavaScript concepts to get your head around befo...

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  Instructor Spotlight: Jeff Konowitch of General Assembly

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on May 15, 2024

  Jeff 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 at...

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  Alumni Spotlight: Sean Mee of LearningFuze

  

  Lauren Stewart

  Updated on March 8, 2017

  Sean 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 seek. A...

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  Alumni Spotlight: Laurel Korwin of Hackbright Academy

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on September 11, 2018

  After 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, so she...

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  Part-Time vs Full-Time Web Development Intensive at New York Code + Design Academy

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated 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 explai...

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  How to Get into Data Science Bootcamp Metis

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on March 3, 2017

  Unlike 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. Amy, tell us about your role as the director of...

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  Our Deep Dive Into Flatiron School's NYC Software Engineering Immersive

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on March 2, 2017

  Flatiron School has been educating web developers in their NYC Software Engineering Immersive since 2012. But as technology and job markets evolve, Flatiron School’s education team felt the need to revamp their approach as well. We discussed these changes with VP of Education Joe B...

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  CIRR: Standardized Job Placement Data from Coding Bootcamps

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on April 7, 2021

  Coding 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 boot...

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  Episode 11: February 2017 Coding Bootcamp News Roundup Podcast

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on March 1, 2017

  Here’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 below...

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  Alumni Spotlight: Matt Downs of DigitalCrafts

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on March 1, 2017

  Matt 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 why Ma...

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