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  Why a VP of Engineering Mentors Hackbright Academy Students

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on December 10, 2018

  Impressed with a new hire who had graduated from Hackbright Academy, VP of Engineering at Sharethrough, Rob Slifka, was inspired to get involved with the all-women’s bootcamp. Three years later, Rob continues to mentor students and guest lectures about how new engineers can find jobs they’...

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  What is jQuery: An Intro for Beginners

  

  Beth D'Amato

  Updated on December 7, 2018

    So you’ve been seeing jQuery as you research coding bootcamp curricula – but what is jQuery? It’s a JavaScript library that has been widely used for more than 10 years, but there is some debate around whether or not it’s worth using in 2018, since modern web browsers can now perform some of the same functions....

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  From Instructional Design to Web Development: Byron’s Epicodus Story

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on December 7, 2018

  Over 900 tech bootcamp graduates entered our sweepstakes competition to win a $500 Amazon Giftcard just by leaving a Verified review for their school on Course Report. This time, our lucky winner was Byron Chang from Epicodus! We caught up with Byron to find out what he's up to today. Want to be our next...

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  The Tech Academy's New Austin Campus

  

  Lauren Stewart

  Updated on December 5, 2018

  As The Tech Academy prepares to open a new campus in Austin, Texas, we sat down with founders Jack & Erik to get the specifics. Read on to learn about the blended online coding bootcamp, why they’re excited to teach students in Austin, what companies are hiring developers in Austin, and what will stand out about the Austin...

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  Thinkful's Data Analytics Program: Everything You Need to Know

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on December 4, 2018

  After teaching data science for two years, Thinkful is adding a flexible, online Data Analytics Program. We asked Thinkful’s Data Science Program Director, Matt Shull, about the differences between data analytics and data scie...

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  Tips from an Airbnb Machine Learning Engineer

  

  The Springboard Team

  Updated on March 8, 2021

    What do Machine Learning Engineers do and how are their jobs different from Software Engineers and Data Scientists? Chirag Mahapatra, a Springboard Mentor and Machine Learning Engineer at Airbnb explains...

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  New Country, New Career with Flatiron School

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on November 30, 2018

  When Susanna first moved to the US from Finland, she started teaching herself to code while waiting for her green card. When she wasn’t advancing as fast as she wanted to, Susanna decided to enroll at Flatiron School in Washington DC. Susanna tells us about overcoming self-doubt while learning to code, working machine learning into her final project, and ultimately landing a job with an educat...

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  What I Built at A Coding Bootcamp: Reynolds of Codesmith

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on November 30, 2018

  In the last week at Codesmith, students take part in Hiring Day, where employers visit the campus looking to hire new software engineers. Students interview with employers and show off their final projects. We visited Codesmith’s New York City campus and...

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  November 2018 Coding Bootcamp News Podcast

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on November 29, 2018

  This November has been super busy in the immersive coding education world, and at Course Report! We read about how Amazon’s new headquarters will impact the coding bootcamps in New York City, we celebrated successful coding bootcamp grads, we were sad to hear that a school is closing, we heard advice for being successful at bootcamp, and found out about new initiatives to improve diversity in...

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  Express JS: A Guide for Beginners

  

  Matthew Short

  Updated on December 7, 2018

  Different coding bootcamps teach different languages and stacks, and it can be hard to keep track of all the technology options. One technology you might have heard of in relation to full-stack JavaScript curricula, is Express (also known as Express JS or Express.JS). In this guest post, Matthew Short, an Instructor and Head of Ac...

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