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Guest Speaker: Matt Hackett

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 […]
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Sandi Metz at the Flatiron School

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 […]
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Guest Speaker: Sandi Metz

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.”
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Horcruxes or Repos? A Git Guide to the Perplexed

The following is a guest post by David Manaster and originally appeared on his blog. David is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on twitter here. It’s been an exciting first week at Flatiron School! By far the most confusing thing for me to date has been Git. So I’m going to dump everything I know […]
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Fumbling Around in Git With Fat Fingers

The following is a guest post by Micah Corn and originally appeared on his blog. Micah is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. As a babe in this programming excursion, I am always looking for help while I tool around. This has been very true with my playtime with ‘Git’. […]
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Guest Speaker: Gwen Bell

Name: Gwen Bell     Job: Technical writer and web developer Site: gwenbell.com    Twitter: @gwenbell GitHub: Gwen Bell What are you speaking about today? The magic of Git. (With a little Node.js, Express, Jade, Stylus and Markdown thrown in for good measure.) What was your experience learning to code? I’m self-taught. Started with a book in 2004 because I wanted to make […]