Today marks the start of the last week of the #BacktoCode Challenge – a 21-day learning challenge, featuring weekly code challenges, prizes, and lectures, and a motivated community of aspiring programmers pushing each other toward their coding goals. Below you’ll find our third weekly check-in on how the challenge has been going and what’s coming
While many Flatiron School alumni become prized software engineers at companies, from scrappy startups to gigantic enterprise corporations, it’s a point of pride for us that certain Flatiron graduates follow a different path, utilizing their passion and the tools they’ve developed here to create their own tech startups or launch their own products. This month
It’s a coding bootcamp’s job to prepare students to keep pace with a rapidly-changing tech world. To match the market, we’ve constantly iterated on our curriculum and pushed the limits of what’s possible in the 12-week bootcamp model Flatiron School created in 2012. As we approached 2017, we challenged ourselves to go a step further
Want to learn code, but can’t afford to attend a bootcamp? Tired of charting your own path through a maze of web-based programming resources? Learning online… but lonely? Below, Flatiron School co-founders Adam Enbar and Avi Flombaum announce a brand new Flatiron School program built for you. When we started Flatiron School back in
With a background in Classics and entertainment, Savannah Scott isn’t necessarily someone you’d expect to become a web developer. Then again, if you ask Savannah whether there are any similarities between coding and Classics, she’ll tell you, “You’d be surprised.” Savannah was kind enough to chat with us in her brief window between finishing our Online
Below are highlights from a recent Flatiron School feature from Course Report—head there for the full article! People with different backgrounds, from around the country and the world, attend NYC coding bootcamp Flatiron School remotely through their online campus, Learn.co. So why do they want to learn to code remotely? And how do they balance studying
Coding bootcamps like Flatiron School are a relatively new development in education. Bringing that experience online is an even newer frontier, and different schools doing it very different ways. We’ve written before about what we think is great about our Learn.co platform, but we wanted to hear from the people who know our platform best: our students. We spoke to
The following is a guest post by Flatiron alumna Amanda Himmelstoss, originally posted on November 21, 2013 and updated today with new content! You can follow Amanda on Twitter here. After beginning JavaScript last Thursday, I’ve been thinking about the differences between this language and Ruby, which I’ve gotten quite intimate with these last seven weeks
A note from Flatiron School Co-Founders Adam Enbar and Avi Flombaum, originally posted on October 8, 2015 on the day Learn.co launched. The content has been updated to reflect our learning after nearly a year of growth and iteration on our Online Campus, which is already enabling many alums to change careers and find meaningful
Flatiron School’s co-founder and CEO Adam Enbar recently participated in a Quora Session, answering questions from the curious Quora community on entrepreneurship, innovations in higher education, and all things Flatiron School. Adam shared his candid thoughts on the future of the coding bootcamp industry as well as advice he’s picked up over a career that
“The possibilities are endless. You can create anything you imagine from scratch,” Geraldina Alverez-Garcia tells Fox News of her experience learning to code at Flatiron School.Geraldina is a graduate of our NYC Web Development Fellowship, which aims to equip New Yorkers—who might not otherwise have the opportunity—with the skills necessary to launch careers in web development.
After graduating Hunter College in 2014 with dual degrees in Statistics & Applied Mathematics and Dance, Stephanie Guevara didn’t know what she wanted to do. A job in the Executive Development Program at Macy’s presented itself, but after completing the program and spending a year as an Assistant Buyer for Kitchen Electrics and Personal Care,
When you think of the “typical” programmer, which adjectives come to mind? Probably something along the lines of analytical, focused, methodical, logical, and mathematical—in other words, left-brain characteristics. You’re probably not thinking inventive, creative, adaptive, communicative, passionate, or curious. But maybe you should be. Programming is actually an awesome profession for those in the humanities—including
This post, by Flatiron School alum Tiffany Peon, originally appeared on Quora. What are the most common types of projects for entry-level programmers?Many aspiring programmers, myself included, start learning to code because they know they want a career as a software engineer—but it’s not always clear what they’ll actually be doing and what projects they’ll