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Imogen CrispeUpdated on July 19, 2016Dev Bootcamp was known for its unique Engineering Empathy curriculum, which focuses on the human side of software development. As of December 8, 2017, Dev Bootcamp will no longer be operating. Dev Bootcamp aimed to produce job-ready graduates with both technical and interpers...Continue Reading →- Imogen CrispeUpdated on July 19, 2016Joe has a passion for teaching and education and has been part of the Flatiron School academic team for three years. After working at IBM, he joined Flatiron School to write and teach the iOS curriculum. Joe is now the school’s VP of Education and oversees the instructors and the curric...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on October 21, 2020Wendy Zenone is not only a Hackbright Academy success story; she’s also a testament that coding bootcamps are not a “quick fix.” Wendy’s journey shows that it takes hard work, determination, and grit to make a successful career change into tech. We chat with Wendy about her experience atContinue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on July 14, 2016MakerSquare has just opened in New York; its fourth campus after Austin, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. We spoke to campus managing director, Tyler Lambe, about his background starting another bootcamp, why MakerSquare chose to expand to New York, how the curriculum differs compared wi...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on July 12, 2016Taylor originally studied chemical engineering and was exposed to programming through the scientific research programming language Mathematica. After working in pharmaceuticals and therapeutics, Taylor realized that her background in engineering, statistics, and programming was ideal for data science. So she enrolled atContinue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on July 11, 2016After learning R to streamline her job in digital marketing, Tammi was ready to take the plunge and make a career change. With a background in for-profit education, Tammi knew that transparency was imperative when choosing a coding bootcamp, so she chose Sabio's Orange County campus ...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on July 7, 2016John left the legal field to attend TurnToTech’s 16 week mobile bootcamp in New York City. The switch from paralegal to mobile developer was risky, but worth it. See how this career change helped John land a position at a startup (and at Viacom!), all while giving him the skills needed to create his own app. Q&A What...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on July 7, 2016Tom left business operations at a custom apparel startup in Rhode Island to learn to code at DevPoint Labs in Salt Lake City. In the startup world, technology can make or break your company. He saw the pain points in having limited tech knowledge, so he decided to gain more technical skills. Read on to learn about his choice to ...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on July 6, 2016Ho Fai has an impressive career in IT Infrastructure for consulting powerhouse PWC. When he realized that he clearly loved gleaning insights from data to solve his clients’ problems, Ho Fai decided to invest more heavily in his Data Science skill set. His company agreed to let him take a sabbatical and enroll inContinue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on July 5, 2016At age 18, Josh opted out of university in the UK and moved to San Francisco to learn to code at Holberton School. Now he's five months in and about to launch his own app. We spoke to Josh to find out why he decided to do a two-year intensive coding bootcamp, instead of a four-year computer science degree, how he’s adjustin...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on October 21, 2020Alexandru was working as a financial attache at the Romanian Consulate in Shanghai when he started teaching himself to code. He absolutely loved it and decided to switch careers and become a software developer. Alexandru enrolled at Jademy coding bootcamp in Bucharest, Romania where he learned Java. He graduated in June 2015, and has s...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on July 1, 2016Clayton had a career in hospitality and real-estate, when he decided to rekindle the passion for coding he’d had as a youngster. After trying to teach himself to code, and attending unhelpful courses, he enrolled at RefactorU’s Boulder, CO&nb...Continue Reading →
- Susy SolisUpdated on June 30, 2016Kevin Harris is familiar with bootcamps – military bootcamps. He joined the US Navy aged 18, and 26 years later he’s created his own bootcamp. Unlike a military bootcamp, this one doesn’...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on June 30, 2016Welcome to the June Course Report monthly coding bootcamp news roundup! Each month we look at all the happenings from the coding bootcamp world, including new bootcamps, what we’re seeing in bootcamps internationally, outcomes, and paying for bootcamps. Plus, we released our bigContinue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on June 27, 2016Raag switched from computer science to study criminal law at college, but after graduation realized his passion was in programming, and enrolled at Coding Temple coding bootcamp in Chicago. After the 10-week program, Raag found a job as an applications developer at ATI Physical Therapy i...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on November 27, 2024As coding bootcamps have evolved towards JavaScript-heavy curricula, the debate between frameworks like React, Angular, and Ember is fierce. But what exactly are these technologies, and what types of projects are they used for? We spoke toContinue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on June 22, 2016David was working in technology sales when he discovered his passion for coding. He tried to teach himself but had too many unanswered questions, so decided to attend LearningFuze coding bootcamp in Orange County, CA. He graduated in ea...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on June 21, 2016Sabio’s Orange County campus opened in January 2016, and so far they have graduated 7 new developers and 100% have found jobs. We spoke to Sabio VP of Engineering, and lead OC instructor, Aaron Gibson about how he first got involved withContinue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on November 3, 2021With a job market in flux, coding bootcamps like Tech Elevator have rapidly adjusted to ensure their bootcamp students still receive the career preparation they need to land their first tech role. Kelly Brucker, the Lead Pathway Program Director atContinue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on June 15, 2016Jennifer Sardina had a lot of interesting jobs, as a foreign language teacher, a chemistry lab technician, a health coach, and a full-time mom. But she wanted a career. She had never been interested in computers before, but when her brother gave her a programming book, she couldn’t put it down...Continue Reading →
