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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&a...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. Aft...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 to Ro...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 Contribu...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 talk wit...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 next iOS project!...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 curren...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...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on June 18, 2014Spyros Fotiou is a student at CareerFoundry, a three month, online, mentor-driven career accelerator. Spyros tells us what to expect from the CareerFoundry Web Development course and how to be successful in the program!Continue Reading →
