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From Classics to Coding: One Alum’s Unexpected Career Switch
With a background in Classics and entertainment, Savannah Scott isn’t necessarily someone you’d expect to become a web developer. Then again, if you ask Savannah whether there are any similarities between coding and Classics, she’ll tell you, “You’d be surprised.” Savannah was kind enough to chat with us in her brief window between finishing our Online […]
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What’s It Like to Learn Online with Flatiron School?
Below are highlights from a recent Flatiron School feature from Course Report—head there for the full article! People with different backgrounds, from around the country and the world, attend NYC coding bootcamp Flatiron School remotely through their online campus, Learn.co. So why do they want to learn to code remotely? And how do they balance studying […]
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Three Reasons to Learn to Code Online
Coding bootcamps like Flatiron School are a relatively new development in education. Bringing that experience online is an even newer frontier, and different schools doing it very different ways. We’ve written before about what we think is great about our Learn.co platform, but we wanted to hear from the people who know our platform best: our students. We spoke to […]
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JavaScript and Ruby: 10 Differences You Need To Know
The following is a guest post by Flatiron alumna Amanda Himmelstoss, originally posted on November 21, 2013 and updated today with new content! You can follow Amanda on Twitter here. After beginning JavaScript last Thursday, I’ve been thinking about the differences between this language and Ruby, which I’ve gotten quite intimate with these last seven weeks […]
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Learn.co: A New Type of Online Learning Platform
A note from Flatiron School Co-Founders Adam Enbar and Avi Flombaum, originally posted on October 8, 2015 on the day Learn.co launched. The content has been updated to reflect our learning after nearly a year of growth and iteration on our Online Campus, which is already enabling many alums to change careers and find meaningful […]
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5 Highlights from Adam Enbar’s Quora Session
Flatiron School’s co-founder and CEO Adam Enbar recently participated in a Quora Session, answering questions from the curious Quora community on entrepreneurship, innovations in higher education, and all things Flatiron School. Adam shared his candid thoughts on the future of the coding bootcamp industry as well as advice he’s picked up over a career that […]
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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. […]