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July Coding Bootcamp News Roundup
8/6/2015
The July News Roundup is your monthly news digest full of the most interesting articles and announcements in the coding bootcamp space. Want your bootcamp's news to be included in the next News Roundup? Submit announcements of new courses, scholarships, or open jobs at your school!
Continue Reading →Student Spotlight: Yulia Barannikova, Byte Academy
7/22/2015
Yulia Barannikova is a finance major who noticed that the jobs she wanted required programming knowledge, so she enrolled in Byte Academy, a FinTech coding bootcamp in New York. Motivated by the fact that Byte teaches Python and that women are automatically eligible for a $2,000 scholarship, Yulia is now the first female graduate of Byte Academy. Yulia gives us the scoop on her experience transitioning from Finance into FinTech, her experience as a woman (and non-US citizen) in the tech community, and her future plans for a career in programming!
Continue Reading →Learn Web Development at these 14 Part-Time Bootcamps
5/29/2020
While quitting your job and diving headfirst into your coding education can yield impressive results, we also understand that not everybody can commit to a full-time, 12-week programming bootcamp. Jobs, school, families - life, in general, can prevent that kind of commitment. For all the students who can’t give 40 hours a week to a code school, we’re outlining some of the best part-time web development bootcamps around. With a variety of price points and locations to choose from, you'll find an in-person program that can get you coding, even with your busy schedule.
Continue Reading →Instructor Spotlight: Greg Piccolo, Byte Academy
3/10/2015
After learning to program C in high school, Greg Piccolo was drawn to the New York startup scene and knew he had to be a part of it. He graduated from Dev Bootcamp and was hired as an instructor at Byte Academy, a New York City coding bootcamp at specializing in Finance and fintech. Greg took a break from Graduation Day to talk about Byte Academy’s unique programming and finance curriculum, why Python makes sense as a FinTech coding language, and why “sandboxing” is the key to excelling in his class.
Continue Reading →How to Learn Python Programming at 11 Python Bootcamps
1/21/2022
Python is often hailed as one of the best programming languages for first-time coders to learn as they break into programming. It’s the main technology powering big data, finance, and statistics, and its clean syntax reads like English. Python developers are in demand, not to mention the average Python developer in New York City earns $140,000 per year! Companies like Amazon, Dropbox, and Dell are built on this powerful language, making it a great time to learn Python bootcamp. We’re breaking down Python bootcamps, across the country and online, for a range of price points and time commitments.
Python is a back end programming language, which is often used by data scientists, software engineers, and cybersecurity engineers. Python can be as a web programming languages and it can be used for creating data sets, web scraping, and scripting. Since Python syntax is very similar to English, it is a great first language for beginners to learn. Python is a well-documented language and the community is welcoming, which also makes it a great first programming language for coding newbies!
Continue Reading →September Bootcamp News Roundup
10/2/2014
Welcome to the September News Roundup, your monthly news digest full of the most interesting articles and announcements in the bootcamp space. Want your bootcamp's news to be included in the next News Roundup? Submit announcements of new courses, scholarships, or open jobs at your school!
Continue Reading →Byte Academy Teaches Future FinTech Professionals + Scholarship Announcement!
9/5/2014
At the intersection of Finance and Technology is FinTech, an industry packed with jobs- tech jobs in New York have increased by 21% since 2006. This specialized industry requires insights into both back-end programming languages as well as a financial background to be successful. Newly coined Byte Academy recently launched in New York to teach these skills to aspiring developers looking for jobs in FinTech.
Byte Academy will teach beginners (they also accept applicants with engineering or mathematics backgrounds) using a curriculum divided into three sections, all project-based. While applicants can be relatively new to programming, Rak Chugh, Director of Byte Academy, says "We’re being somewhat selective in making sure that the right candidates are admitted. It’s not only their educational backgrounds but also their experience and their drive to learn that counts... From an application perspective they can be completely new to both finance and programming. However, by the time we’re done with them, they will be fully capable of working in finance as programmers. "
Continue Reading →Founder Spotlight: Byte Academy
8/12/2014
Rak Chugh and Richard Hu have been working with Byte Consulting, a research, analytics and technology firm, for 15 years. When it became clear that there was a demand for technologists in the financial sector, they founded Byte Academy, a 12-week immersive program to transform students into financial technology programmers. We talk to Rak and Richard about their unique curriculum, the importance of Python in the financial industry, and the types of jobs their graduates can expect!
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