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Lauren StewartUpdated on September 20, 2016Jasmine was a junior college student studying elementary education before she took a semester off to attend Coder Camps’ 12-week full-stack bootcamp in Houston, Texas. Coming from a family of programmers, she decided to leave university to see if she would enjoy learning to code. Check out how Jasmine enjoyed learning alongside ...Continue Reading →- Liz EgglestonUpdated on September 19, 2016After interviewing Holberton School students, we noticed a trend: they actually enjoyed the application process for the San Francisco-based bootcamp! We wanted to find out what makes the Holberton application special and unbiased, so we sat down with co-founder Julien Barbier t...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on October 21, 2020In this series, we’re spotlighting coding bootcamps that have released Outcomes Reports. This week, we talk with Juha Mikkola, co-founder of Florida coding bootcamp Wyncode. Not only has Wyncode recently released a verified Outcomes Report, but they’ve also builtContinue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on September 16, 2016Starting college right after the recession, Jisoo chose accounting as a safe and stable career path, even though she originally wanted to study engineering. After working for two years at a big accounting firm, Jisoo realized she had to go back to her original passion and started teaching herself to code. A friend recommended coding bootcamps, so she enrolled atContinue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on September 15, 2016Chris taught himself to build websites during his 18-year career as a Cleveland book publisher. Knowing that his background in marketing and sales wasn’t his most favorite part of his job, he realized it was time for a career pivot, and enrolled at Tech Elevator. We chatted with him to learn why he choseContinue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on September 14, 2016Pedro was a political rights advocate imprisoned Venezuela, an environmental science teacher, and a rope-access technician before finding his love for code in London. We sat down with this General Assembly Web Development Immersive graduate to learn more about his unconventional path to software development. Find out how Pe...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on September 14, 2016Our team at Course Report heard about program changes at Startup Institute—from pre-work to instructors to outcomes—so we sat down with Vice President of Admissions Katie Bickford to get the details. Read what we learned about the additional supportContinue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on February 8, 2021Burnt out from his professional cycling career, Addison’s path was rerouted to DevPoint Labs’ two month UX Design bootcamp in Salt Lake City, UT. Always an avid fan of the Health industry, he decided to turn his sights to tech in order to solve a deep problem. Since his brother had the coding skills, he decided to learn UX des...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on September 12, 2016Wendy was a biologist studying the sense of smell when she started using machine learning in her research. She liked it and wanted to learn more about algorithms and statistics, so she enrolled at NYC Data Science Academy (NYCDSA). Now Wendy is working as a Data Scientist at ASCAP, predicting trends in the music ind...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on September 9, 2016Want to know what employers really think about hiring bootcamp grads? We sat down with Chris, Engineering Manager at Granicus, a software development firm for government agencies, to see why he loves to hire Turing School grads. With a nontr...Continue Reading →
