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From Project Manager to Node.js Developer

Sara sat down with us to share her advice on how to find a passion for programming and transform an interest in code into a whole new career
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Learning as Product: Building Better Education at Flatiron School

As VP of Product at The Flatiron School, Mat Balez often gets asked: what does “Product” even mean at a school that teaches people to code? Here are his thoughts on approaching education as technologists and designers approach building products. It’s a great question and to answer it properly requires stepping back and thinking about […]
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Teaching Front-end Web Dev at Flatiron School: With Instructor Jonathan Grover

Jonathan Grover is a new media artist, programmer, and the Lead Front-end Instructor at The Flatiron School.
Software Engineering

Working With Size Classes in Code With UITraitCollection

This post on teaching students in our iOS immersive size classes and Autolayout was written by iOS Instructor Joe Burgess.  With the introduction of different screen sizes in iOS 8 we now lean more heavily than ever before on AutoLayout to decide where our views belong given different screen sizes. Thankfully, Apple has given us […]
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Announcing Intro to Front-end Web Development

We’re excited to kick off another semester of Intro to Front-end Web Development, a part-time course that teaches students the tools they’ll need to build responsive websites from scratch.
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A Semester at Flatiron School: How Flatiron Students Spend Their Days

Students in Flatiron School’s immersive classes are on campus a lot—more 60 hours a week for three months. That’s over 700 hours at the very least. So what do they get up to in all that time? Honestly, there’s no “typical day” for a Flatiron Student. It changes a lot over the course of the […]