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Liz EgglestonUpdated on September 5, 2014At the intersection of Finance and Technology is FinTech, an industry packed with jobs- tech jobs in New York have increased by 21% since 2006. This specialized industry requires insights into both back-end programming languages as well as a financial background to be successful. Newly coined Byte Academy recently launched in New Y...Continue Reading →- Liz EgglestonUpdated on September 3, 2014When Jay Ottenstein decided to learn to program, he knew he needed a flexible training schedule that still facilitated his love of learning. So he signed up for Bloc, chose his mentor, and got to work. We chat with Jay about his experience at Bloc, how the online program has managed to create a sense of community, and how he's con...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on September 2, 2014gSchool is a bootcamp in Denver, Boulder, and San Francisco that turns smart and driven beginners into marketable, contributing members of development teams over the course of our 24 week long developer training programs. For a limited time, the Course Report community will get $500 off tuition to gSchool! To claim your $500 schol...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on September 2, 2014The Firehose Project is an immersive online apprenticeship that teaches students of varying backgrounds to be web developers or launch their own products. While the curriculum is based in Ruby on Rails, mentors identify their mentees needs immediately and customize a learning plan for each student. We chat with Marco ...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on August 29, 2014Welcome to the August News Roundup, your monthly news digest full of the most interesting articles and announcements in the bootcamp space. Want your bootcamp's news to be included in the next News Roundup? Submit announcements of new courses, scholarships, or open jobs at your school! Bootcamps in the News Continue Reading →Liz EgglestonUpdated on August 28, 2014A bootcamp's quality can be measured partly by how connected they are to their community, and two US bootcamps are leading the pack in engaging high schools in teaching students to code. Flatiron School in New York began with a summer academy, then expanded their Flatiron After School program into the academic year. Mobile Makers Academy in Chicago recently announced their partnership with Chic...Continue Reading →Liz EgglestonUpdated on August 27, 2014gr8code is a coding school in Tampa, Florida, founded by three successful women who saw a need for affordable coding education. We chat with Justin Davis of gr8code about their Front-End Development bootcamp,what makes the school unique (brand new MacBook, anyone?), and their ideal gr8code s...Continue Reading →Liz EgglestonUpdated on August 26, 2014What does it take to become a UX Designer? Metis recently announced a 9-week UX Design & Front-End Development course crafted and taught by Tyson Gach of thoughtbot and Allison House. Join us for a FREE webinar: Hear from Tyson & Allison, who will tell us about their paths to becoming UX Designers. Learn ...Continue Reading →Cameron BuckinghamUpdated on August 23, 2014Cameron Buckingham is a student at gSchool, a 6-month coding school in Colorado. He blogs each week about his experience at gSchool- this week, he talks about interacting with alumni and shares a sneak peak at his project deployed on Heroku! Remember, the ...Continue Reading →Ahmed OmranUpdated on August 21, 2014Ahmed Omran is a passionate educator, web developer, and graduate of HackerYou in Toronto. Here, Ahmed describes "Learning Velocity," a measure of bootcamp efficacy, and how bootcamps can help their students accelerate through the course. Whether you're a student looking for advice or a bootcamp administrator lo...Continue Reading →
