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Liz EgglestonUpdated on July 16, 2014Join Liz of Course Report and Laurie & Irmak of Metis on Tuesday, July 22 for a free webinar. You'll also have a chance to ask any questions you have about the Data Science course at Metis! Date: Tuesday, July 22 Time: 6:30pm EST SAVE YOUR SPOT NOW! Think it takes a PhD to be a data scientist? Think agai...Continue Reading →- Liz EgglestonUpdated on July 15, 2014Marta Fonda needed to improve her web development skills in order to compete for jobs at her dream companies, so she enrolled in IronHack, an 8-week intensive programming course for developers and entrepreneurs. We talk to Marta about how she succeeded in the class and got a job as a front-end engineer at floqq.com! What...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on July 12, 2018We’re continually impressed with Fullstack Academy- not only because of their placement rates and intentional curriculum, but also because we’ve personally attended their hiring day twice now, and the final projects speak for themselves. Unlike the last Fullstack hiring day, there were no presentations by students; instea...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on July 13, 2014Tim Hise moved from Oklahoma to Seattle when he was accepted to the Code Fellows iOS course and now works as an apprentice at Liffft. We talk to Tim about his experience at Code Fellows and how the connections he's made have helped propel him into a new career! Tell us about what you were doing before yo...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on July 11, 2014Since launching their Ruby on Rails bootcamp in Boston, Metis has expanded to new cities and added courses in new fields. Their upcoming Product Design course in New York aims to prepare students for a job in the growing field of UX and Product Design. We talk with Alex Baldwin, co-creator of Metis Product Design Curriculum, abou...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on July 11, 2014Cameron Buckingham is a student at gSchool, a 6-month coding school in Colorado. He blogs each week about his experience at gSchool- here, he talks about his experience with databases and teaches us what pseudo code is!Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on July 10, 2014Career Foundry combines the flexibility of online learning with the proven guidance of mentors, training students to become employable developers in three months.The Course Report community is eligible for 10% off tuition! Click here for more information and good luck!Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on July 10, 2014We learned so much in our Lunch & Learn with Martin and Emil from Career Foundry, including: Martin's journey from product manager to web developer (and how he continues to learn!) Why freelancing can be the best way to build your portfolio and do the most with your technical skills! (Read Career Foundry's blog post on Freelancing here). How Career Foundry students learn "soft skills" ...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on July 8, 2014Sara Chipps is the remarkable co-founder of Girl Develop It, an organization that has taught over 4,000 women to code in a supportive environment, and joined Flatiron School as CTO in 2014. We caught up with Sara to learn about her role at Flatiron School, why she beleives in the ...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on May 10, 2024[As of December 8, 2017, Dev Bootcamp will no longer be operating.] The sale of Dev Bootcamp, the first coding bootcamp of its kind in a rapidly expanding space, to Kaplan marked a significant landmark in the coding school world. Kaplan, the test prep powerhouse, lends legitimacy to the bootcamp model as a viable form of educatio...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on February 8, 2021Irmak Sirer and Laurie Skelly work as data scientists (Irmak is also a partner) at Datascope Analytics, a data-driven consulting and design firm in Chicago. When they met the folks at Metis, who have already proven their propensity for great partnerships with theirContinue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on July 2, 2014Cameron Buckingham is a student at gSchool, a 6-month coding school in Colorado. He blogs each week about his experience at gSchool- here, he talks about his struggles with arrays and hashes, and learning what a "wheelhouse" is and how it helps people learn!Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on July 2, 2014Rachel Reinitz is the CTO and Director of IBM’s BlueMix Garage, a unique consultancy lab that aims to bridge startup and enterprise communities in the Bay Area. In light of the recently announced partnership with Galvanize and gSchool (Galvanize’s educational arm), we sat down with Rachel to learn more. In this Course Report Q&...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on July 1, 2014Cameron Buckingham is a student at gSchool, a 6-month coding school in Colorado. He blogs each week about his experience at gSchool! Remember, the Course Report community is eligible for a $500 scholarship to gSchool! After several months of anticipation and angst, gSchool Denver has finally started. After ...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on June 26, 2014After graduating from college, Geoff Boss decided to attend RocketU, a 12-week Python bootcamp set in the middle of the Rocket Space campus. Geoff tells us why RocketU beat out other coding bootcamps when making his decision and how learning to code is "like a rollercoaster." What were you up to before deciding to go t...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on June 25, 2014Our webinar with Jeff Casimir of Turing School was so informative! As promised, you can watch and share the whole webinar on demand by following this link. Jeff brought four former students of gSchool and Hungry Academy, and we all discussed: Jeff's secrets to success during your time at a coding bootcamp (hint: don't sleep at the office...) How and when to use GitHub Contrib...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on June 25, 2014Aditya Narayan had a wealth of experience in technology companies- from starting his own online tutoring service to heading up IT security at a Fortune 500 company. He decided to team up with Harish Shadadpuri to found TurnToTech, a programming bootcamp in New York that trains students in mobile and web development. We ...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on June 24, 2014Apple released their new programming language, Swift, for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch this month. The language is meant to be interactive, fun, and works side-by-side with Objective-C so developers can use it with their current apps. So how can you learn Swift quickly? Check out these programming bootcamps that are already offering classes in the language and get started on your...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on June 23, 2014Jesse Farmer, former cofounder of Dev Bootcamp, and John Davison, Dev Bootcamp alum, have teamed up to create an online, fully-mentored coding school called Code Union. Currently in their first cohort, Code Union offers several courses to help their students change careers, learn the basics, or upskill for their cur...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on June 19, 2014Alyssa Ravasio graduated from Dev Bootcamp in 2013 with a background in startups, a great idea for a website, and the programming skills to execute it. Read our interview with Alyssa to find out about her unique application process, how Dev Bootcamp gave her the tools to start her own business, and what types of people really s...Continue Reading →
