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Liz EgglestonUpdated on May 12, 2014New York Code & Design Academy offers part time and full time courses to help students build their digital set. Jeremy Snepar, founder of NYCDA, talks with us about the intensive workshops in web, mobile app, and UI/UX design, what they're looking for in applicants, and how they help graduates find jobs in...Continue Reading →- Liz EgglestonUpdated on May 12, 2014Harsh Patel began the first MakerSquare cohort in June of 2013 with three friends who wanted to create a programming school with an emphasis on great teachers and a project-based curriculum in Austin. With his Teach For America experience and background in startups, Harsh has an intentional approach to coding education, and it shows when he descri...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on May 8, 2014In our webinar with Startup Institute, CEO Aaron O'Hearn walked us through the curriculum and different tracks, Kailey talked about tips to get a job at a startup, and a recent graduate, Jerome, shared his own story! As promised, you can watch and share the whole webinar on demand by following this link. Switching your career path...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on May 6, 2014Omari Wallace attended Fullstack Academy in 2014, and he told us about what convinced him to join the Fullstack program, how he pushed through tough times, and what he created for his final project (hint: think Tinder for Cheap Eats). What were you up to before deciding to go to Fullstack? I worked as a proje...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on May 5, 2014I recently completed the 12-week Web Development program at The Flatiron School, an NYC-based school specializing in Ruby and iOS. The experience was a valuable one -- having begun the program with some experience (from college) but never having written any real software, I found myself developing and deploying full-o...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on May 5, 2014Jason Sewell is a Cofounder of Dev League, a coding bootcamp based in Honolulu, Hawaii. With personal experience running a bootcamp in a small tech market, Jason has great insight into the challenges and strengths in the industry. He and other bootcamp owners prove that students don't have to move to San Francisco or New York to...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on May 1, 2014Matthew Maxwell is a new mentor in the Front End Web Development Apprenticeship at Bloc. His mentor profile picture jumped off the page, and we knew we had to find out more about this animated mentor! We talked to Matthew about his "hawkward" pic, how he got involved with B...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on May 1, 2014Kyle Dorman decided to get into programming full-time, so he attended Fullstack Academy and is now working as an Engineering Generalist at Gilt. Read below for his application experience and how he stuck to his goals even when he got stuck! What were you up to before deciding to go to Fullstack? Before decidin...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on February 17, 2025For an updated version of this report, check out the 2015 Coding Bootcamp Market Size Study. Course Report is pleased to present the first in-depth, empirical study to back up a fact that we all sensed was true: the coding bootcamp industry is booming! In 2014, we estimate that bootcamps will ...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on April 28, 2014MakeGamesWithUs started inviting users of their online curriculum into their living room to test their product in 2012. This evolved into the Summer Academy, a two-month intensive program where students design, code, and ship their own iPhone game. Past students have u...Continue Reading →
