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From C++ Engineer to Web Developer: How Randall Reed Is Honing His Craft [Q&A]
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, […]
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A 5 Step Guide to Quitting Your Job and Becoming a Developer
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 […]
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4 Things I Wish I’d Known Before I Started Programming
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 […]
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Jobs Report 2015: How Flatiron School + Fog Creek Boost Women in Tech
In the three years since Flatiron School was founded, its programs have taken special care to curate diversity in tech. Initiatives like the Brooklyn Fellowship and Kode with Karlie have made an outsized impact to include more women, people of color, and low-income students into computer programming spheres.It seems that investment is starting to pay […]
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Here’s What You Should Know About Graduation Rates in Higher Ed [Infographics]
Graduation rates in the United States are notorious for being abysmally low. Nearly half of students who enroll in college never end up finishing, which puts us at the lowest college completion rate in the developed world. This is a huge problem for many reasons — from the amount of debt people accrue to the importance employers […]
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Announcing Flatiron School’s 2015 Jobs Report
For the second year in a row, Flatiron School is proud to release a jobs report independently verified by a third party. But this is more than just a report — it is a symbol of our belief, and unyielding effort, to deliver on outcomes-based education. This is no small feat. It requires a dedicated […]
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6 Simple Tools to Increase Your Coding Productivity
This blog is part of a continuous series that highlights experiences, insights, and tutorials from learning developers at Flatiron School in Web and iOS. Using a Mac is great for iOS development, but it can be even better. Here are some tools that are great productivity boosters, most of which are either free or obtainable at a very low […]