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The 6 Essential Elements Every Tech Portfolio Needs
Imagine you’re a hiring manager and choosing between two candidates for a junior developer role at your startup. Both applicants have similar backgrounds and skillsets. To make your decision more difficult, both performed about the same during their interviews. So, you look online and turn to their online presence or portfolio.The first candidate’s portfolio is […]
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Karlie Kloss Helps Change the Face of Programming for Young Women
13 percent. That’s how many female teenagers consider a STEM field as their first choicefor their future career. Luckily, many people and organizations – including the White House – are working to figure out how to get more young women excited about science, math and technology. It’s also a topic that is catching the attention of more unexpected advocates, like […]
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SwitchUp Scholarship Winner Wants to Educate the Next Generation of Innovators
Flatiron School and SwitchUp teamed up to offer one full scholarship and 50 partial scholarships to the Learn-Verified Program to SwitchUp members who are determined to make the world a better place by learning to code! This is an interview with scholarship winner Sarah Bly. Today, you’ll find Sarah Bly in a classroom, surrounded by kids entranced with […]
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Operation Code: One Army Veteran’s Path to Programming
Michael Perritano is familiar with tactical operations, but after leaving the United States Army in 2011 with 10 years of service under his belt, he became acquainted with an operation of a different kind. The organization Operation Code partners with the Flatiron School’s online campus – Learn – to help former military personnel build new skills, open up a […]
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Eikos CTO On Hiring Tech Talent
David Lattimore-Gay, Partner and Chief Technology Officer at Eikos, recently spoke with Flatiron about his experience interviewing and hiring Flatiron grads.
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Announcing the Kode With Klossy Summer Program
Summer crushes come and go but a passion for coding sticks with you for life – at least according to the Kode With Klossy students! We’re excited to share that the second annual Kode With Klossy summer camp is now accepting applications for three locations across the country: NY, LA and St. Louis. Spearheaded by model and […]
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Learn To Program Your Favorite Song
'Cause the coders gonna code, code, code, code, code…. In his latest online lecture, our co-founder, Avi, taught us how to code his favorite Taylor Swift song: “Shake it Off.” Using Ruby code and Sonic Pi – a live coding synth used by beginner students and pro musicians alike – he showed us how to use […]