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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 […]
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Teaching High Schoolers Code At Flatiron After School: A Q&A With Program Director Lyel Resner

Lyel Resner is a native New Yorker and the Director of K12 Education at Flatiron School. Lyel and a team of amazing teachers will be leading Flatiron After School—our brand new coding program for high school students. To kick off what is sure to be an exciting journey, he’s answered a few questions on what […]
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Flatiron School At New York Tech Meetup

Last night’s New York Tech Meetup was a really great time. Not only did we get to see awesome demos from Makr and Bubble, we totally got to see Mayor de Blasio introduce New York City’s first ever CTO Minerva Tantoco. Crazy, right? Here are some highlights: 1. Flatiron Co-founder Avi explained why we’ve started […]
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Learn How to Build Android Apps: Announcing Android for Developers

We’re so excited to announce the launch of Android for Developers—a 10 week course designed to teach developers how to program for Android. About Android for Developers The course is built from market demand and based on Google’s set of requirements for Android design and application. In 10 weeks, developers with at least one year […]
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New To Tech? Amanda Peyton of Etsy Shares Some Advice

She stopped by Flatiron School to talk through questions she always gets about how to start working in tech. Here’s what we learned: