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Learning as Product: Building Better Education at Flatiron School
As VP of Product at The Flatiron School, Mat Balez often gets asked: what does “Product” even mean at a school that teaches people to code? Here are his thoughts on approaching education as technologists and designers approach building products. It’s a great question and to answer it properly requires stepping back and thinking about […]
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Teaching Front-end Web Dev at Flatiron School: With Instructor Jonathan Grover
Jonathan Grover is a new media artist, programmer, and the Lead Front-end Instructor at The Flatiron School.
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Working With Size Classes in Code With UITraitCollection
This post on teaching students in our iOS immersive size classes and Autolayout was written by iOS Instructor Joe Burgess. With the introduction of different screen sizes in iOS 8 we now lean more heavily than ever before on AutoLayout to decide where our views belong given different screen sizes. Thankfully, Apple has given us […]
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Announcing Intro to Front-end Web Development
We’re excited to kick off another semester of Intro to Front-end Web Development, a part-time course that teaches students the tools they’ll need to build responsive websites from scratch.
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A Semester at Flatiron School: How Flatiron Students Spend Their Days
Students in Flatiron School’s immersive classes are on campus a lot—more 60 hours a week for three months. That’s over 700 hours at the very least. So what do they get up to in all that time? Honestly, there’s no “typical day” for a Flatiron Student. It changes a lot over the course of the […]
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How to Make the Most Out of Your Next Technical Interview, Even if You Bomb it
Job interviews are what you make of them — even if you’re a new software developer. VP of Business Development and former Head of Job Placements at Flatiron School Rebekah Rombom shares a few tips on how to ace your next technical interview and get hired for the unicorn of an employee you really are._Hi, reader. I’m […]
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Flatiron School and Fog Creek Fellowship: a Fellow’s Perspective
The following post was originally published by Flatiron Alum and Fog Creek Fellow Ashley Blewer on her blog. Learn more about the Fog Creek Fellowship right here or on the program page. Flatiron School was hard. It was one of the toughest, enduring challenges I’ve ever done in my life, and also the most rewarding. […]