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From Flatiron School to Y Combinator: Advice from Danny Olinsky, Co-founder of StatusPage.io
Once a Sales Director at a B2B software company, Danny Olinsky always had product ideas but never had the technical skills to make them happen. After graduating from Flatiron School’s Web Development program, he co-founded StatusPage.io and headed off to Y Combinator. Currently: Co-founder of StatusPage.io (YCS13), Flatiron Web Development Alum Previously: Director of Sales […]
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#WhyICode: Win Two Seats In Flatiron After School
Here’s a chance to win two spots in Flatiron After School*—a new coding conservatory for high schoolers in the New York City area. Starting in September, students in will learn the tools professional developers use every day—that’s HTML, CSS, Javascript, and Ruby. By the end of the course, they’ll be able to build and deploy […]
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Tomorrow: A Swift Start
Don’t forget! We’ve teamed up with Orta Therox of CocoaPods and Artsy to host A Swift Start—a one day iOS conference. Designers and developers from companies like Tumblr, Etsy, Artsy, Meetup, and Kickstarter will be stopping by all day to talk about the ups and downs of learning and building for iOS. Why have an […]
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High Schoolers Make Awesome Coders
Flatiron Summer School was an absolute blast. In just two weeks, more than 100 high school students went from little to no coding knowledge to building dynamic web applications in Sinatra—that’s what we teach our adult classes in a month! They took on the exact same material and totally ran with it. We were so […]
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Congrats, Ruby 005 & iOS 002!
We’re so excited to have just graduated a brand new class of programmers. Good luck, folks!
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Ada Lovelace
Even though she didn’t have access to the Internet (or, you know, light bulbs, antibiotics, refrigerators, or telephones), we always talk about Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) when we start teaching code at Flatiron School. Here are three reasons why. 1. She was probably the world’s first programmer In 1833, the cutting edge of computing looked something […]
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Developer Origin Story: Christine Beaubrun
Christine Beaubrun was a student in Flatiron School’s NYC Web Development Fellowship. Now she works as a developer at Intel. She originally posted this story in her blog. A man and a woman told me on two separate occasions “You don’t look like a programmer” and “You’re too creative to be a programmer.” Though their […]