Flatiron School Blog

The following is a guest post by Joe Giralt and originally appeared on his blog. Joe is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. So you don’t trust the government and you want privacy. Assume  the NSA pays 0.01cents  per GB a month (which is  10 times cheaper than amazon) with a 20 million […]

The Ardunio platform is based on a language (and environment) called Wiring, which is in turn based on C++ – quite a bit different from our pretty happy friend Ruby.

The following is a guest post by Joshua Collins and originally appeared on his blog. Josh is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. The three-week crash course in learning about computer programming leveraging existing teaching tools. Initial Greeting and Background Greetings and welcome to my technical blog. This is my […]

Name: Matt Hackett Job: CEO, Telecast & Hacker-in-Residence, Betaworks Site: http://matthackett.net Twitter: @mhkt What are you speaking about to the Flatiron class? How to get hired at various stages of a startup’s lifecycle, and how to excel once you’re there. What was your experience learning to code? I’ve never taken a formal CS course, and in fact […]

The following is a guest post by Jordan Trevino and originally appeared on his blog. Jordan is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. Sandi Metz came to the Flatiron School on Tuesday, June 11, 2013. We were privileged to hear her talk with the group and answer questions very candidly. She spoke from […]

A very special thanks to Sandi Metz for stopping by today and encouraging the Flatiron students to continue their pursuit to learn to code! “The appearance of confidence is better than confidence itself.” “__There’s a challenge between getting good at what you do and paying attention to the winds of change.”