Flatiron School Blog

This post was written by Flatiron student Becca Shapiro and originally appeared on her blog “<3: A Coding Blog“. Check it out to learn more about Ruby and Becca's journey to becoming a developer at the Flatiron School.  Want to join Becca and hundreds of other students who have changed their career through code? Check out the […]

As educators, we’re lucky enough to be the people that motivate students to love the subjects we teach. At the Flatiron School Pre-College programs, we think about this fanatically. It’s our responsibility to get our high school students to learn to love to code. We teach many types of students. Some come in having written […]

We’re thrilled to announce that we’re partnering with Karlie Kloss to create the #KodeWithKarlie Scholarship. The scholarship will give 20 girls across the country free tuition to Flatiron School’s Introduction to Software Engineering course. Karlie, model and co-founder of Karlie’s Kookies, started learning to code at Flatiron School in 2014. Since then, she’s worked to […]

When Flatiron School cofounder Avi Flombaum first became interested in coding as a kid, he had to struggle to learn it on his own.  PBS correspondent Paul Solman recently sat down with him to discuss how that experience informs the collaborative learning environment at Flatiron and to look forward into the future of the tech industry. […]

We are thrilled to have collaborated with President Obama and his Administration on the TechHire Initiative a multi-sector effort and $100 million in grants to help Americans find technology jobs

Computer Scientist Edsger Dijkstra shaped his field from both an engineering and a theoretical perspective. Today, he is best known as the inventor of structured programming, a master of tongue-in-cheek commentary, and a former owner of a Volkswagen van dubbed “the Touring Machine.” Despite what he might have said about object oriented programming, Dijkstra is […]