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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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Flatiron School is Making Its Debut Abroad With a New Campus in London

“In the US, Flatiron School has set the benchmark for programming education,” said our CEO Adam Enbar about Flatiron School’s success since 2012. _“With a new Flatiron School location in London, we’ll be able to give more people access to attain the skills they need to create their life’s work.”_Enbar was of course talking about […]
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What Are Bootcamps Looking for in a Student?

Here’s what bootcamp specifically look for in students during the admissions process.
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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: […]