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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: […]
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The 5 Best Coding Meetups in Washington, D.C.

There are near-endless ways to learn to code – full-time coding bootcamps, university programs, online programs, free online resources, and much more. But the regardless of which learning path you choose for your coding journey, the most important thing is not learn to code alone. Being a software engineer requires more than just knowing how to […]
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Announcing Flatiron School’s Washington, D.C. Campus

A few months back, Flatiron School shared that we were joining the WeWork family – a move that would allow us to grow our offerings and bring our transformative coding education to more students around the world. Today, we’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be opening our second campus – and our first outside of New York – in […]