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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. […]
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Flatiron School Presents: Seven Ways to Fail-Proof Your First Technical Presentation
All developers will eventually have to present what their working on—whether internally to their teams or in front of a big group at a conference. So we put students in our Web Development and iOS courses through the presentation ringer early on. All of them have to present at a Flatiron Presents Meetup at least […]
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How to Be a Great Developer: Get Really Good at Solving Problems and Learning New Things
There’s a misconception that the whole job of software developers is to write code for a living. It’s why they get confused for “coders”—but being a developer isn’t just about generating line after line of code. It’s about seeing that complex processes really boil down to logic puzzles. Then it’s about finding a solution to […]
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Peers Make Great Teachers: Alumni Tutoring and Mentorship at The Flatiron School
Learning to program doesn’t happen all at once. It’s a process full of happy highs and stubborn lows that takes a lot of trying and failing. You can struggle with something for days when suddenly it just clicks. We think we’re pretty resourceful when it comes to helping students understand the stuff they’re learning. Instructors […]
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Next Week: Android for Developers Workshop
Next week, swing by Flatiron School to learn Android fundamentals in one of two three-hour workshops designed for developers. To kick off Android for Developers—our newest part-time course, we’re hosting two workshops on Android fundamentals. Material Both workshops will cover the basics of Java and the Android SDK using Android Studio. Participants will get exposure […]
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Heat Seek NYC Wins At NYC Big Apps
Watching Heat Seek NYC go from Flatiron School project to awesome side project to NYC Big Apps winner has been really exciting from where we’re sitting. Here’s their deal: New York City law says apartment temperatures must be kept at or above a certain level between October and May. Unfortunately, this law is really difficult […]
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How to Hack a Development Environment and Teach High Schoolers to Code
This post was written by Tristan Siegel, a Ruby Instructor at Flatiron School. In just a few weeks, he developed a way to turn $200 Chromebooks into ready-to-code programming machines. Read Tristan’s original blog post on the experience right here. We designed Flatiron After School to teach high schoolers the same skills professional developers use […]