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Imogen CrispeUpdated on August 11, 2016Adam attended Tradecraft’s 12-week growth marketing bootcamp in San Francisco, with a mission to shake up his skills in tech. Although he had a ton of tech experience with A/B testing and experimentation, he realized he couldn’t land the marketing career that he wanted. Read more about his thoughts on learning in a bootcamp class...Continue Reading →- Liz EgglestonUpdated on April 7, 2021While a number of coding bootcamps have published their own student outcomes, Reactor Core recently released SSOM, a methodology for calculating job placement outcomes that they’re encouraging other bootcamps to adopt. As the coding bootcamp...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on August 9, 2016Nat had been a web programmer for 11 years when he decided to update his skills and attend General Assembly’s Android Development Immersive program in NYC. Although he had a background in Java, Nat says that almost everything he learned in the program was new, and has helped him start a freelance career as an Android mobile...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on August 8, 2016[As of October 13, 2017, The Iron Yard will no longer be operating.] Tom was a developer for nearly 30 years before he discovered coding bootcamps and became an iOS instructor at The Iron Yard. He began teaching at the DC campus and recently moved back to his hometown of Detroit to launch the mobile engineering program atContinue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on August 5, 2016Julia Wells took a leap of faith 3 years ago to enroll at Sabio, a new Coding Bootcamp in LA. Since then, Sabio has expanded to new campuses and refined their curriculum. Julia is on her third dev job since graduating, making over $100K/year. Find out more about Julia’s impressive career and her advice ab...Continue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on June 24, 2019In July 2016, we announced one FULL scholarship to Flatiron School in New York City. Because there were so many amazing applicants, Flatiron School decided to award scholarships to TWO stellar applicants, and we are excited to announce those winners today. Jessica, a musician/video producer, and Dallin, a marketing st...Continue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on August 4, 2016Emma’s love for linguistics and solving puzzles led her to The Software Guild in Minneapolis. Her background in analyzing language processing tasks using a program written in Python got her curious about learning code. A former member of the Conservation Corp and former English teacher in South Korea, see how this programmer ...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on August 2, 2016Jamie was a software engineer working at companies like eBay and PayPal for 10 years before he followed his passion for teaching and joined MakerSquare Austin in August 2015. He is now Head of Instruction and leads the senior phase of the bootcamp, as well as iterating on the curriculum. Jamie tells us why he fully believes in t...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on October 21, 2020With security breaches and hacks in the news and on TV (Mr. Robot, anyone?) cyber security is more important than ever. Bootcamps like Evolve Security Academy are now helping to train the next generation of Cyber Security Professionals. We caught up with Brian, the Lead Instructor atContinue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on August 1, 2016Kathy has worked in software testing for 15 years, but realized she needed to update her skills and learn web development, so she enrolled in The Software Guild Online Program, a part-time option ideal for students who aren’t ready to quit their jobs. Kathy shares her tips for learning to code online and why she appreciates t...Continue Reading →
