All developers will eventually have to present what their working on—whether internally to their teams or in front of a big group at a conference. So we put students in our Web Development and iOS courses through the presentation ringer early on. All of them have to present at a Flatiron Presents Meetup at least
There’s a misconception that the whole job of software developers is to write code for a living. It’s why they get confused for “coders”—but being a developer isn’t just about generating line after line of code. It’s about seeing that complex processes really boil down to logic puzzles. Then it’s about finding a solution to
Here’s a chance to win two spots in Flatiron After School*—a new coding conservatory for high schoolers in the New York City area. Starting in September, students in will learn the tools professional developers use every day—that’s HTML, CSS, Javascript, and Ruby. By the end of the course, they’ll be able to build and deploy
Don’t forget! We’ve teamed up with Orta Therox of CocoaPods and Artsy to host A Swift Start—a one day iOS conference. Designers and developers from companies like Tumblr, Etsy, Artsy, Meetup, and Kickstarter will be stopping by all day to talk about the ups and downs of learning and building for iOS. Why have an
We’re so excited to have just graduated a brand new class of programmers. Good luck, folks!
Christine Beaubrun was a student in Flatiron School’s NYC Web Development Fellowship. Now she works as a developer at Intel. She originally posted this story in her blog. A man and a woman told me on two separate occasions “You don’t look like a programmer” and “You’re too creative to be a programmer.” Though their
Last month, we were so excited to work with Fog Creek Software to provide to eight newly-graduated Flatiron women with Fog Creek mentors and a seriously nice co-working spot. Today, the news gets even better! Stack Exchange has joined the Fellowship to offer another eight Flatiron women desk space in their office, experienced mentors—and
Every month, we’re really happy to host ManhattanJS, a group of JS enthusiasts (including a bunch of our alums!) who bring great programmers together to talk about their work, passions, and sometimes cats. Yesterday evening marked the latest of these gatherings—and we had a blast. Here’s proof! All photo credits go to the talented Matthew
Using the Twitter Streaming API liz-baillie: For my upcoming Flatiron Presents Meetup presentation (which is TONIGHT, eek!), my presentation partner Luke and I went through a number of ideas before settling on the topic of Using the Ruby-Processing Gem. After explaining how the gem works and what it does, we initially wanted to reenact a…
Like so many of our alums, Michael and Joe both applied to Flatiron School at points in their lives when they weren’t sure what was next: Joe was an economics major turned Marine, and Michael was shirking questions about applying to PhD programs. Now full-time developers, they used their time at Flatiron to level up
… and Ruby 005 student Ben Serviss has cleverly used them as an analogy for learning to program. Who knew! Here’s his post, reblogged from here. The first time I walked into The Flatiron School, I thought to myself: “What are these crazy orange things?” I had come to one of the weekly NYC on Rails meetups
We are thrilled that The New York Times chatted with recent alum Jahmil Eady about her experience with the NYC Web Development Fellowship. The program is incredibly special to us, and it’s awesome to comb through tweets to see Jahmil’s story excite and inspire people—mostly because of how deeply it excites and inspires us. The
The following is a guest post by John Richardson and originally appeared on his blog. John is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. Background: ADK 46-R The ADK 46ers are a set of 46 mountains in upstate NY higher than 4000 feet. If you climb all of these
The following is a guest post by Greg Eng and originally appeared on his blog. Greg is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. In that case, you have to do a little more than just hide them. Typically, an API will require a key or authentication token before