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Charlie Tafoya: Using Code to Revolutionize Private Equity

What do you when you work your way into the industry of your dreams, but find that the technology is way behind the times? For Flatiron School alum Charlie Tafoya, you build it yourself. After working for years in private capital markets, Charlie learned to code and launched Chronograph – a company providing the technology he […]
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The Best Coding Advice I Ever Got: Take a Break

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 […]
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The #BacktoCode Check-In: Week 4

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 […]
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Announcing Future Founders Scholarship to Celebrate 5 Years of Flatiron School

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 […]
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A Closer Look at Flatiron School’s Online Career Services

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 […]
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Relaunching Flatiron School’s NYC Software Engineering Immersive

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 […]