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Joshua HirshfeldUpdated on January 18, 2017Attending a coding bootcamp can be a ticket to a fulfilling new career as a software engineer. But while demand for developers is high, jobs aren’t just handed out at bootcamp graduations. As the Flatiron School's Career Services Commitment emphasizes: job placement is a team effort, but you need to treat getting a job like a job – keep learning; put your...Continue Reading →- Imogen CrispeUpdated on January 17, 2017After studying theater and English, Devon worked in administration, customer service, and set painting; but never felt fulfilled. Online career quizzes kept telling her to try coding, and when she moved to Delaware, she heard about coding bootcamp Zip Code Wilmington. Devon thought the bootcamp’s payment plans seemed too...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on January 12, 2017It can be scary embarking on a coding bootcamp, and starting the search for your first coding job! We asked successful coding bootcamp alum Tom Goldenberg for his top tips on making yourself marketable as you go through a coding bootcamp. Watch the video above or read the brief summary. Q&A What bootcamp did you go to and what do you do now? I went toContinue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on January 11, 2017In November 2016, Hack Reactor announced a new $1.3MM Scholarship Fund for aspiring software engineers, and recently chose their first winners! So what does it take to win a full-ride to Ha...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on January 11, 2017The Software Guild has been teaching .NET/C# and Java at the Ohio coding bootcamp for years, but with the increasing demand for mobile development, they’re launching a new, flexible, part-timeContinue Reading →
- Shanna GregoryUpdated on January 10, 2017Women face many challenges when it comes to getting into the tech industry, including in their education and in finding a job. I recently attended the annual Grace Hopper Conference, where I was surrounded by thousands of women with plenty of inspiring stories and useful advice. Here are my takeaways for both women developers and employers navigating the job search and hiring process....Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on January 6, 2017Marisha was a professional soccer player and collegiate soccer coach before she discovered a passion for coding. She taught herself the basics of web development to help with her sister’s startup, and loved the creative problem solving aspect of programming. Marisha chose to enroll at Hackbright Academy coding bootcamp in...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on January 4, 2017In our Cracking the Bootcamp Application series, we’re diving into the admissions process at coding bootcamps around the world. Los Angeles bootcamp Sabio has a unique two-track admissions process where candidates can either take an advanced level assessment straight away, or participate in a paid, four-week pre-work course. We sat do...Continue Reading →
- Tracy LumUpdated on January 2, 2025Whether you’re just starting to learn to code, currently attending a coding bootcamp, or you're working as a software developer, it’s important to keep challenging yourself to learn more. After attending Flatiron School, working on the engineering team here, and recently starting as an instructor, I’ve been thinking a lot...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on October 21, 2020Every cohort in Thinkful’s Full Time Web Development Bootcamp gets to take part in an online Demo Day to demonstrate their final projects. We recently attended a <...Continue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on December 30, 2016It’s that time again! A time to reflect on the year that is coming to an end, and a time to plan for what the New Year has in store. While it may be easy to beat yourself up about certain unmet goals, one thing is for sure: you made it through another year! And we bet you accomplished more than you think. Maybe you finished your first Codecademy class, made a 30-day Github commit strea...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on December 4, 2024Welcome to our last monthly coding bootcamp news roundup of 2016! Each month, we look at all the happenings from the coding bootcamp world from new bootcamps to fundraising announcements, to interesting trends we’re talking about in the office. This December, we heard about a bootcamp scholarship from Uber, employers who are happily hiring bootcamp grads, investments from New York Sta...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on December 27, 2016During her internship, Christina was asked to build a custom website in two weeks. She had never coded before, but rose to the challenge (with the help of Redbull) and says, “It was the most fun I’ve ever had.” Even after starting her nonprofit role, Christina couldn’t get web development off her mind, so she left her job and enrolled inContinue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on February 16, 2021In our recent Student Outcomes survey, alumni reported that they were working in over 650 different companies! Of course, you may have read recent press citing co...Continue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on December 22, 2016Young, motivated, and fresh out of high school, Tommy Gaessler knew that he wanted to learn more than high school coding classes offered. So he took it upon himself to opt out of the 4-year university degree and instead learn new exciting technology through an intensive bootcamp atContinue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on December 21, 2016[As of October 13, 2017, The Iron Yard will no longer be operating.] Since 2012, The Iron Yard had been offering immersive back-end and front-end bootcamps around the US. After getting feedback from students and the community who had different goals than their immersive students, they are now launching two part-time offering...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on December 21, 2016Jason Humphrey has been mentoring students from Thinkful’s programs for almost two years, including students in their newest course, the Full Time Web Development Bootcamp. When Jason isn’t mentoring, he is working as a Software Engineer at Fidelity Investments and maintaining his own open source framework. We asked Jason about the...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on December 15, 2016Access Development is a B2B rewards and loyalty company in Utah with a team of developers working in Java and Ruby. We spoke with CTO Clint Peterson about the six DevPoint Labs coding bootcamp graduates he’s hired over the past two years (one of his first hires is now a team m...Continue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on May 24, 2018Steven Garcia has had an interest in coding since he was deconstructing his PlayStation at age 14, so when he saw Holberton School in the news, he knew that the two-year program was next step for him. See why Steven opted out of the traditional computer science degree to attend Holberton School’s two-year program, how he st...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on December 13, 2016After a degree in popular music, Joe Reed was bored with working in London coffee shops and wanted to challenge himself, so he enrolled in Thinkful’s Flexible Web Development Bootcamp. Joe worked with a mentor based in Europe, and graduated from the online bootcamp in just three months. Joe tells us how useful theContinue Reading →
