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Why You Don’t Need Has_and_belongs_to_many Relationships
The following is a longtime favorite guest post by Flatiron alum Kevin McNamee, a software engineer at Casper. When mapping associations between models in your Rails application, you will inevitably come to a point when two models both ‘has’ and ‘belongs_to’ each other. In this situation, you need to choose between a has_many :through relationship […]
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4 Ways Michael Faraday Revolutionized the World
Born into one of the most rigid class systems in history, Michael Faraday was not destined to become a man of influence. Near the turn of the 19th century, he spent his childhood in a squalid London flat, with little opportunity and no formal education beyond elementary school. But a lack of pedigree didn’t prevent […]
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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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Boredom Getting In The Way Of Making A Coding Breakthrough?
In advance of our November 16 online lecture with Poornima Vijayashanker of Femgineer, we are reposting this fascinating article that originally appeared on her blog. Enjoy, and please join us on November 16 at 4pm EST for “A Techie's Guide to Public Speaking, Interviewing, & Making Moves to Level Up Your Career” – RSVP right […]
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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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Promptworks CTO on How He Hires Developers Who Get Things Done
We recently had the pleasure of speaking to Mike Nicholaides, CTO of PromptWorks, a Philadelphia-based software consulting shop. Mike was willing to share insights about his role, offer his advice to aspiring programmers, and pull back the curtain on PromptWorks’ hiring process for developers. Thanks for being willing to chat with us! Let’s start by asking: […]
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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 […]