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Q&A with Peter Bell on Developing New Online Teaching Techniques
This post first appeared on Course Report. Flatiron School's Head Online Instructor Peter Bell was already a big fan of Flatiron School when he joined the team in 2016, bringing extensive programming experience, and a background teaching at Columbia Business School and Github. Peter tells us how Flatiron School’s online program differs from the on-campus bootcamp, […]
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4 Standout Web Applications Built by Flatiron School Students
Last month, students from Flatiron School’s NYC Software Engineering Immersive presented their final projects at our end-of-semester Science Fair. The student-built apps took on a wide range of problems – helping people curate music and art, adopt pets, explore parks, and better educate themselves – but each showed just how far programming students can come […]
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Bustle & Flatiron School Partner to Expand Women Take Tech Initiative
Flatiron School is thrilled to announce an expansion of our Women Take Tech initiative in a new partnership with Bustle, the largest independent media property for millennial women. Together, we’ll extend over $100,000 in scholarship funding for women toward our Online Web Developer Program and partner on events and opportunities to help more women enter the […]
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Want to be an iOS Developer? 6 Swift Tips for Beginners
Note: Flatiron School no longer offers the iOS Developer Program. CNN Money calls mobile app developer the “best job of 2017.” Want to learn how to become one? Take a look at Senior iOS instructor Jim Campagno's six essential steps for learning Swift, Apple’s new iOS programming language. If you're interested in learning how to […]
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The Women Behind Learn.co
On International Women’s Day, we want to highlight the female makers who help build Learn.co. Across Learn.co, from instruction and technical support to product and engineering, women play a critical role on the platform – by infusing their ideas and hard work into each feature, by mentoring and helping students, and by providing unique perspectives […]
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How Object-Oriented Design Saved Our CSS (and Site Performance) – Part 2
Welcome to our Flatiron Engineering blog series. In this series, the engineering team behind Flatiron’s learning platform pull back the curtain and share insights into how we build our products. A few days ago, I walked you through the first steps Flatiron School's engineering team went through to overhaul the CSS in our Learn.co codebase. We covered how […]
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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 […]