Flatiron School Blog

Using the Twitter Streaming API liz-baillie: For my upcoming Flatiron Presents Meetup presentation (which is TONIGHT, eek!), my presentation partner Luke and I went through a number of ideas before settling on the topic of Using the Ruby-Processing Gem. After explaining how the gem works and what it does, we initially wanted to reenact a…

Like so many of our alums, Michael and Joe both applied to Flatiron School at points in their lives when they weren’t sure what was next: Joe was an economics major turned Marine, and Michael was shirking questions about applying to PhD programs. Now full-time developers, they used their time at Flatiron to level up […]

… and Ruby 005 student Ben Serviss has cleverly used them as an analogy for learning to program. Who knew! Here’s his post, reblogged from here.  The first time I walked into The Flatiron School, I thought to myself: “What are these crazy orange things?” I had come to one of the weekly NYC on Rails meetups […]

Yesterday evening, we kicked off this semester’s weekly student presentations. Every Flatiron student has to give at least one technical presentation while they’re here. There’s pretty much no getting out of it, but last night’s presenters had the reckless audacity to go first. It’s kind of a big deal considering they’ve only been coding for a […]

We are thrilled that The New York Times chatted with recent alum Jahmil Eady about her experience with the NYC Web Development Fellowship. The program is incredibly special to us, and it’s awesome to comb through tweets to see Jahmil’s story excite and inspire people—mostly because of how deeply it excites and inspires us. The […]

Sunwoo and Wontae both picked up programming to make their respective workplaces more efficient with code. They’ve only recently graduated from Flatiron’s full-time Ruby course, but they’re already able to save other programmers a lot of time, too. As students, they built a development tool called GemifyJS to help developers create and manage Rails gems. […]