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This blog originally appeared on January 16, 2015. Anita Borg dedicated her career to making the tech industry a better place. Although she was a respected computer scientist, she is given the most credit for her tireless advocacy for and mentorship of women in computing. In honor of her 66th birthday tomorrow, here are three […]

Since Learn's Full Stack Web Development Program launched in November, we've gotten a lot of similar questions from students: Should I attend Flatiron School's immersive, or do the online course instead? That depends on a few different factors, but the most fundamental factor is YOU. What’s your learning style? Where are you in life right now? […]

This post originally appeared on Ryan Rosello's blog. Read more at Ryan Rosello on Medium. Back in the old days — well, really just last week — I was working on an assignment and needed to alphabetize a mutable array of items inside a model shopping cart. This lead me on an internet journey through […]

This post originally appeared in July 2015. Perhaps a bit unusually, Randall Reed had already been a developer for years before he applied to Flatiron School's Ruby class in 2014. During his job at Fast Enterprises, Randall provided tax software for government agencies all around the world. He worked in Boise, ID, Port of Spain, Trinidad, […]

By Kate Travers, Web Developer on Learn I had to make the decision to leave my current job almost exactly a year ago. I’d spent most of my career working in the fine arts, but coding had always been a side passion — one that I found myself committing more and more of my time […]

This blog is part of a continuous series that highlights experiences, insights, and tutorials from learning developers at Flatiron School in Web and iOS. By Gabi O'Connor I first became interested in programming at my previous job, where I worked in a non-tech role at a tech startup. Initially, I started learning in order to work […]