This post was written by Michael Djurdjevic, who completed our Online Web Developer Program and now helps other students going through the program as a Technical Coach. With a fresh red sharpie, I marked an “X” on my calendar exactly three months into the future. “No matter what, I’ll finish the curriculum by this day,” I thought. I felt
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
A note from Flatiron School: In our 2018 Online Jobs Outcomes Report, 94% of job-seeking students accepted full-time salaried roles, paid apprenticeships, or part-time roles during the reporting period. This post originally appeared on Course Report, where our VP of Career Services, Rebekah Rombom, shared how our Career Services team helps 97% of our online students
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
The following is a longtime favorite guest post by Flatiron alum Kevin McNamee, a software engineer at Casper. When mapping associations between models in your Rails application, you will inevitably come to a point when two models both ‘has’ and ‘belongs_to’ each other. In this situation, you need to choose between a has_many :through relationship
Born into one of the most rigid class systems in history, Michael Faraday was not destined to become a man of influence. Near the turn of the 19th century, he spent his childhood in a squalid London flat, with little opportunity and no formal education beyond elementary school. But a lack of pedigree didn’t prevent
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