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Liz EgglestonUpdated on January 31, 2014Kush Patel graduated from the first cohort at Dev Bootcamp and saw some room for improvement, so he created App Academy in 2012 with Ned Ruggeri, a former Google engineer and fellow University of Chicago alum. We talk to Kush about App Academy’s application process and why they charge students tuition only after they get a job t...Continue Reading →- Liz EgglestonUpdated on February 2, 2018How do you choose a coding boot camp in New York that's right for you? New York City is home to 13 full-time coding bootcamps, teaching everything from Web Development to Mobile App Development to FinTech. With so many options to choose from, you should consider factors like your learning style, professional goals, and language p...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on January 29, 2014Shannon Burns was pleasantly surprised and financially unprepared when she was accepted to Hackbright Academy. Coming from a low-income network, Shannon had to think fast, so she founded Hacking for Women and theContinue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on January 27, 2014Sherif Abushadi has been educating for 10 years and teaching Rails at Dev Bootcamp in San Francisco since 2012. [As of December 8, 2017, Dev Bootcamp will no longer be operating.] In part two of our interview, Sherif dives into the Dev Bootcamp interview process, curriculum, job placement and hiring process, and more! ...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on January 24, 2014Ricky Choi and Phil Moldavski graduated from San Francisco-based Dev Bootcamp in Spring 2012 and launched Nice Laundry, a DC startup that aims to make over your sock drawer. In today's Graduate Spotlight, we talk with Ricky about his passion for socks, why DC is the perfect town for a consu...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on July 27, 2017As of October 13, 2017, The Iron Yard will no longer be operating.Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on January 23, 2014Ksenia Burlachenko is a Hackbright Academy graduate who completed her program in Spring 2013. She now works as a Software Engineer at Perforce and considers Hackbright to be “one of the best experiences and best decisions of [her] life.” What were you up to before you applied to Hackbright? I came to the US six y...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on January 23, 2014Sherif Abushadi has been educating for 10 years, and teaching Rails at Dev Bootcamp in San Francisco since 2012. In part one of this two-part interview, we talk to Sherif about the Dev Bootcamp application process, what they look for in future students, and why working at Dev Bootcamp is the best job he's ever had. ...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on January 23, 2014Anyone Can Learn To Code, based in Chicago, launches in June 2014, and can turn you into a web developer in 12 weeks. The best news? You don't even have to quit your job. We talk to founder Jay Wengrow about his background in tech and education, his choice to teach beyond "Vanilla" Rails, and how focused Chicago students can le...Continue Reading →
