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Summer Skill-up: Take the Plunge and Level Up Your Tech Skills

No matter where you live, everything seems to move just a bit slower in the summer. So while everyone else is taking summer Fridays and spending the weekend poolside, why not use this time to sharpen your skills and upgrade in your career?If you’ve ever considered getting into tech by learning to code, or deepening […]
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JavaScript Saved the Internet (and So Can You)

With the rapid pace of technological change, it’s easy to forget how different certain products and technologies were just a few years ago: before our impossibly thin laptops, we had bulky workstations; we’ve traded in our flip-phones for iPhones, which put a powerful computer, camera—and augmented reality game device—in our pockets; while we used to […]
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Learning to Code FAQs: Everything You Wanted to Know

Flatiron School's co-founder and dean Avi Flombaum hosted a Quora AMA recently, answering top FAQs on Learning to Code.One of the most-read Q&As, coming in at 1.5 Million views, is: What are the best programming languages to learn today? Given that you’re asking me, I’m going to assume you’re an informed beginner–meaning you haven’t been writing code professionally […]
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Helping Students Get The Most Out of Flatiron School: Meet Instructor Leigh

In the next few weeks, Flatiron School instructor Leigh Scherrer is going to be contributing stories to our blog. Before then, we wanted to take a moment to chat with her about her path from healthcare communications to coding, how she decided to become an instructor here at Flatiron School, and why she’s excited to start blogging […]
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NYC Web Development Fellowship Alum Geraldina Alverez-Garcia’s Career Transformation

“The possibilities are endless. You can create anything you imagine from scratch,” Geraldina Alverez-Garcia tells Fox News of her experience learning to code at Flatiron School.Geraldina is a graduate of our NYC Web Development Fellowship, which aims to equip New Yorkers—who might not otherwise have the opportunity—with the skills necessary to launch careers in web development. […]
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Flatiron Alumna Natacha Springer on Finding Work-Life Balance Through Code

After taking time off from work to raise her two children, Natacha Springer found it hard to re-enter the workforce. She had spent years as a successful Biotech Production Manager, yet she was now only receiving offers for entry-level roles. Finding herself drawn to coding and encouraged by the stories of work-life balance that she […]