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Liz EgglestonPublished on JULY 11, 2014Since launching their Ruby on Rails bootcamp in Boston, Metis has expanded to new cities and added courses in new fields. Their upcoming Product Design course in New York aims to prepare students for a job in the growing field of UX and Product Design. We talk with Alex Baldwin, co-creator of Metis Product Design Curriculum, about the differences between UX Design and Product Design, why ...Continue Reading →- Liz EgglestonPublished on JULY 11, 2014Cameron Buckingham is a student at gSchool, a 6-month coding school in Colorado. He blogs each week about his experience at gSchool- here, he talks about his experience with databases and teaches us what pseudo code is! Remember, the Course Report community is eligible for a $500 scholarship to gSchool! This week we dove into database creation and migration. We are using Postgr...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonPublished on JULY 10, 2014Career Foundry combines the flexibility of online learning with the proven guidance of mentors, training students to become employable developers in three months.The Course Report community is eligible for 10% off tuition! Click here for more information and good luck!Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonPublished on JULY 10, 2014We learned so much in our Lunch & Learn with Martin and Emil from Career Foundry, including: Martin's journey from product manager to web developer (and how he continues to learn!) Why freelancing can be the best way to build your portfolio and do the most with your technical skills! (Read Career Foundry's blog post on Freelancing here). How Career Foundry students learn "soft ski...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonPublished on JULY 8, 2014Sara Chipps is the remarkable co-founder of Girl Develop It, an organization that has taught over 4,000 women to code in a supportive environment, and joined Flatiron School as CTO in 2014. We caught up with Sara to learn about her role at Flatiron School, why she beleives in the coding school, and how Flatiron Labs, their unique on-site dev shop for graduates, is helping to produce excel...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonPublished on JULY 3, 2014[As of December 8, 2017, Dev Bootcamp will no longer be operating.] The sale of Dev Bootcamp, the first coding bootcamp of its kind in a rapidly expanding space, to Kaplan marked a significant landmark in the coding school world. Kaplan, the test prep powerhouse, lends legitimacy to the bootcamp model as a viable form of education. Other coding schools’ recent fundraising only confirms that...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonPublished on JULY 3, 2014Irmak Sirer and Laurie Skelly work as data scientists (Irmak is also a partner) at Datascope Analytics, a data-driven consulting and design firm in Chicago. When they met the folks at Metis, who have already proven their propensity for great partnerships with their thoughtbot collaboration, it was clear that a Data Science program was in the cards. Now, Irmak and Laurie are designing the cu...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonPublished on JULY 2, 2014Cameron Buckingham is a student at gSchool, a 6-month coding school in Colorado. He blogs each week about his experience at gSchool- here, he talks about his struggles with arrays and hashes, and learning what a "wheelhouse" is and how it helps people learn! Remember, the Course Report community is eligible for a $500 scholarship to gSchool! As I roll into the Fourth of July we...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonPublished on JULY 2, 2014Rachel Reinitz is the CTO and Director of IBM’s BlueMix Garage, a unique consultancy lab that aims to bridge startup and enterprise communities in the Bay Area. In light of the recently announced partnership with Galvanize and gSchool (Galvanize’s educational arm), we sat down with Rachel to learn more. In this Course Report Q&A, we talk to Rachel about integrating BlueMix technologie...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonPublished on JULY 1, 2014Cameron Buckingham is a student at gSchool, a 6-month coding school in Colorado. He blogs each week about his experience at gSchool! Remember, the Course Report community is eligible for a $500 scholarship to gSchool! After several months of anticipation and angst, gSchool Denver has finally started. After coming from a marketing background, I was a little nervous about shiftin...Continue Reading →