Software Engineering

5 Places to Learn How to Code for Free in Washington D.C.

Looking to learn coding languages? Here are great places to meet others with the same interest and to introduce yourself to the world of code.Washington D.C., like a few other major cities across the country, has seen its tech industry grow steadily over the past few years. And with it comes a demand for programmers […]
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Flatiron School is Set to Launch Yet Another Top-Notch Coding Course

On the coattails of our two new campus launches in Washington D.C. and London, Flatiron School is happy to announce an entirely new coding course that will make its debut at both campuses on May 15.
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5 Easy Steps Toward Finishing Your Coding Project

Congrats! You did it. You’re ready to make your very own project. This is what it’s all about. This is what you’ve been learning for. To create. To make. To build. To turn an idea into a real live app that people will use. Something that will live forever in perpetuity on the internet. Oh […]
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Pattern Matching in Elixir

Think back to the last time someone tried to sell you on some shiny, new tech. Maybe it was (yet another) Javascript framework. Maybe it was non-relational databases. Or maybe it was this cool new functional programming language everyone's talking about: Elixir. As programmers, we hear these pitches all the time, so it takes something […]
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All Access Coding: Investing in Future Devs

When 2U, Inc., a global leader in digital education, and WeWork announced a global, exclusive partnership in January, which included licensing Flatiron School’s Learn.co software, we knew that there was more to be done together. We are driven by a shared goal to revolutionize the way people work and learn, which is why we were […]
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How We Built Assignments on Learn.co

When Flatiron School first introduced Code Challenges to the in-person software engineering immersive program in March of 2017, the workflow to deploy and grade those challenges was a very manual one for our instructors and technical coaching fellows. Like much of our curriculum, code challenges are repositories on GitHub. Administering a challenge involves the following: […]