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- Imogen CrispeUpdated on October 21, 2019After running the UX Design Career Track for over a year, Springboard is launching a longer, more in-depth UI/UX Design Career Track with th...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on October 21, 2020Military veteran Albert Villaviza was tired of working in commission-based sales and wanted more financial security to support his wife and four young children. Albert came across Prehired’s software sales bootcamp on Facebook, and found the job guarantee “irresistible.” He tells us about working through the online program, getti...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on October 23, 2019DevMountain Director of Outcomes and Student Success, Chris Dominguez, gives us a peek at how his team helps graduates land jobs with companies like American Express and Wayfair after coding bootcamp. Chris explains how he...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on October 23, 2019Ben Lindau was a banker with an economics degree who knew he wanted to be coding for a living. Instead of moving further into his banking career, he switched jobs to work for a non-profit and enrolled in <...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on October 7, 2019Eric Carrillo was a surfer and entrepreneur dreaming of a digital nomad lifestyle. A serendipitous encounter with the CEO of Codesmith led him to enroll in theirContinue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on October 23, 2019When Georgie Gow had a taste of data-driven UX design, she decided to upskill in her marketing career, and get into more digital roles. She enrolled inContinue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on October 21, 2020Feeling drawn to the “numbers behind-the-scenes,” finance grad Keaton Hutchison recognized that if he wanted to feel satisfied in his job, he needed to be working with data. A friend recommended Thinkful’s online tech courses, and...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on February 8, 2021In your research as a beginner coder, you will probably come across the term “object-oriented programming” to describe certain coding languages and approaches to coding. But what is object-oriented programming, and should beginners learn an object-oriented coding language? Will knowledge of object-oriented programming help you reach your goals of landing a job as a software engineer? We ...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on October 23, 2019What if you could follow the activity of restaurants and bars in your city and plan your night out on the town? Well, Steve built an app to do just that for his final coding bootcamp project at Lighthouse Labs. ...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on December 3, 2024This September, one of the largest online tech bootcamps got acquired, two schools raised capital, and companies like Adobe, Pandora, Airbnb, Capgemini, and JP Morgan Chase talked to journalists about hiring from coding bootcamps! We also chat about two free coding bootcamp options and the difference between CS degrees, coding bootcamps, and self-teaching. Plus find out about 6 new schools ...Continue Reading →