Flatiron School Blog

People often ask me what I'm most proud of at Flatiron School (even more often than usual given we just celebrated Flatiron’s fifth anniversary this month). That's a really hard question and I don't have a definitive answer. I often talk about our incredible student stories, our impact on the industry, and, of course, our […]

The story about Samantha's journey in blockchain.

As we mentioned earlier this week, Flatiron School is celebrating our fifth birthday with our Future Founders Scholarship – a $2,250 scholarship for innovators, risk-takers, problem-solvers, and someday-startup-founders. We’re also spotlighting our alums who have pursued entrepreneurship and offering resources for students who want to follow in their footsteps. Below, you’ll find Flatiron School’s Entrepreneur […]

One of the hallmarks of our Learn.co platform is the Learn IDE – the interactive development environment through which students solve labs. Our latest update, Learn IDE 2.5, comes with a bunch of cool new features which we'll dive into in this blog post. In addition to the flashier changes, we also made some foundational changes […]

While many Flatiron School alumni become prized software engineers at companies, from scrappy startups to gigantic enterprise corporations, it’s a point of pride for us that certain Flatiron graduates follow a different path, utilizing their passion and the tools they’ve developed here to create their own tech startups or launch their own products. This month […]

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, […]