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- Imogen CrispeUpdated on October 23, 2019What if you could follow the activity of restaurants and bars in your city and plan your night out on the town? Well, Steve built an app to do just that for his final coding bootcamp project at Lighthouse Labs. ...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on December 3, 2024This September, one of the largest online tech bootcamps got acquired, two schools raised capital, and companies like Adobe, Pandora, Airbnb, Capgemini, and JP Morgan Chase talked to journalists about hiring from coding bootcamps! We also chat about two free coding bootcamp options and the difference between CS degrees, coding bootcamps, and self-teaching. Plus find out about 6 new schools ...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on October 21, 2020Sarah Pinvises had 10 years of experience in hospitality and culinary world, but didn’t have the business experience to get her foot in the door as a Business Analyst. TheContinue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on February 8, 2021When Victoria found her career as an Athletic Trainer to be too demanding, she started teaching herself to code and wanted to learn more. She compared various options, then won a scholarship to attendContinue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on September 23, 2019After an injury derailed his plan to be an orchestral flute player, Jinji Zhang started wondering how his computer (or “Netflix machine”) worked. He tried out coding, and became addicted! His love for San Francisco combi...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on September 17, 2019Inna Saboshchuk switched gears from the world of psychology and academia to become a data scientist in Madrid. After completing her Ph.D., she knew she would n...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on October 21, 2020After being a pastor for 19 years, Jeff was looking to get into tech, and discovered UX design as a great way to combine logic and creative skills. He wanted to learn future-focused skills, and found online UX design bootcampContinue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on September 11, 2019When Athena decided university wasn’t the right learning environment for her, she switched gears to attend Holberton School in San Francisco to learn to code in a collaborative space. Athena tells us about learning alongside a diverse cohort, what sort of projects she worked on, and all about her fully functional final pr...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on September 30, 2024Ruby vs Python vs JavaScript vs Java vs .NET – how do you choose your first programming language? Some experts will argue that fundamentals are more important than the language itself, and while we agree, you do need to choose a language in order to learn those fundamentals. We’re running through the pros ...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on September 10, 2019Since Kevin Weng graduated from Hack Reactor he has worked as a software engineer at Gliffy, Lyft, and now Google! Three years ago, Kevin felt stuck in his Mechanical Engineering job, so he decided to att...Continue Reading →