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Meggie MahnkenUpdated on June 12, 2024Is Python the “best” first coding language? What can you build with Python and what types of jobs could you get wih Python skills? Hackbright Academy’s Director of Fellowship, Meggie Mahnken...Continue Reading →- Imogen CrispeUpdated on October 21, 2020After getting feedback from alumni and employers, Canadian coding bootcamp Lighthouse Labs has added a computer science unit to their web development and mobile development curriculums. The program lengths have also increased from 8 weeks to 10 weeks as part of the bootcamp’s ongoing goal to remain relevant and competitive. ...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on May 13, 2024The General Assembly team saw Austin grads getting web developer roles all over Texas, and realized expanding its offerings to Dallas was a growth opportunity for local talent and employers. General Assembly chose Dallas because of its p...Continue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on October 21, 2020Q&A Nicolas Peckham’s career was scattered until he found UX Design: from video production in Los Angeles to photography in Hawaii, phlebotomy in Salt Lake City, to the oil industry in North Dakota. He wanted to get into tech so he taught himself JavaScript, but it didn’t stick. When his frie...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on October 4, 2017Greg Demaline was no stranger to IT – he spent 17 years programming ice carving machines. But when he decided to transition into web development, he found employers were looking for more experience than he could get from self-teaching. So Greg enrolled in The Software Guild’s online bootcamp and kept working full time while stu...Continue Reading →
- Avi FlombaumUpdated on October 3, 2017Learning to code is tough when you’re a beginner. There is so much information to sort through and it can feel like you’ll never learn enough to become a legitimate developer. But if you know what to expect before you start, then you’ll be prepared for these inevitable challenges.Continue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on September 29, 2017Swati Gupta studied psychology in college and worked as a counselor in New Delhi, India, but when she moved to San Francisco, she was ready for a career change. After much research, self-learning, community college computer science classes, and a nudge from her software engineer husband, Swati ch...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on September 28, 2017Need a rundown of everything that happened in the coding bootcamp industry this September? You’re in luck! We’ve collected all the most important news in this blog post and podcast. This month, we kept up with the status of the bootcamp industry, learned about how bootcamps are thriving in smaller markets, and explored different ways to pay for bootcamp. Plus, we added 7 new schools from arou...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on September 27, 2017After working as a wildlife biologist for six years, Jackie Zuker went to graduate school for bioinformatics, but when she graduated she couldn’t find a job in her hometown of Auburn, California. She realized she needed data science skills, so she enrolled inContinue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on September 26, 2017Collin Miller is a self-taught developer (he actually started building applications in high school)! After leading the Front End Engineering team at The Onion, Collin was itching to teach programming. Now he’s shaping new developers as an Instructor for Fullstack Academy’s 17-week Software Engineering Immersive in Chicago. L...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on October 21, 2020From high school dropout to lead developer for a marketing agency at just 19; Temple Naylor took a huge risk and it paid off. He left school at 16, taught himself to code, then enrolled at The Tech Academy’s online coding bootca...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on February 4, 2025Deferred tuition and income share agreements (ISAs) are becoming more widely available and can be attractive to students who don’t have $20,000 in the bank. ISAs and Deferred Tuition align a school’s incentives with those of their students – essentially, a school isn't successful unless their students get jobs. Plus, deferred tuition and ISAs remove the barrier of an upfront tuition, expandin...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on September 20, 2017After working at Mint, Netflix, and founding two tech companies, Ryan Balfanz wanted to pay it forward and mentor career changers. Now, as a mentor for Bloc’s online coding bootcamp, Ryan balances his day job as a software engineer at Square with ensuring that his students meet their career goals. Ryan tells us about his background in...Continue Reading →
- Robert BunchUpdated on September 19, 2017You may have heard developers talk about Node or Node.js when discussing full-stack JavaScript. But what is Node and should you learn it? We asked DigitalCrafts Lead Instructor, Rob Bunch, to give us an in-depth overview of Node (with beginners in mind)! Rob looks at the origins of Node and how it works with JavaScript, what N...Continue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on September 15, 2017After spending years in academic research, Justin Knight wanted the skillset to share interesting insights from data. He dabbled in experimental data-driven artwork, then officially transitioned into the data science industry by attending Springboard’s online data science bootcamp. After honing data science skills like SQL, Spark,...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on September 10, 2019Can anyone learn data science? What do you need to know before you go to data science bootcamp? Do you need a quantitative degree? We asked Metis’s Chief Data Scientist, Deborah Berebichez, how to know if you’re ready for a data science bootcamp, and how to set yourself up ...Continue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on September 13, 2017Jose was a manager in the biomedical engineering space before attending Thinkful’s Flexible Web Development online course. When he started learning to code, he set a goal to break into tech before his 23rd birthday; and he accomplished that goal...Continue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on October 21, 2020Calling all career switchers who would rather skip the expense of a commute: Kevin Khoury, the co-founder of DecodeMTL, explains why they’ve brought their JavaScript bootcamp online for remote learners. Learn what a typical day looks lik...Continue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on September 8, 2017Although Prushni Jani had been working in Android development since 2012, she wanted to gain more confidence in her skills. While living in Maharashtra, India, she chose AcadGild’s online Android course to dig deeper into her mobile development skills and build projects with the guidance of a mentor. Now, Prushni runs Connect2Android...Continue Reading →
- Sara Inés CalderónUpdated on April 13, 2021Should you learn React? Sabio coding bootcamp graduate Sara Inés Calderón uses React every day in her engineering r...Continue Reading →
