Flatiron School Blog

Ah, the holidays. A time for friends, family, giving—and a whole lot of online shopping. The end of November brings a blight of days to commemorate America’s favorite past times: first Thanksgiving, then Black Friday, then Small Business Saturday—and, finally Cyber Monday, the mecca of sales for online shoppers. But, all those great deals come […]

“The future of space exploration will certainly depend on software engineers and developers as much as aerospace engineers and research scientists.” Harris Haynes, aerospace engineer and recent Flatiron School graduate, on the time and space it took for him to learn to code, with some universal networking advice. Amid your extraordinary career in the aerospace […]

As they say, if you can make it in the Big Apple, you can make it anywhere. New York City is home to some of the world’s largest companies. It’s a tech epicenter where industry giants and fast-growing startups thrive with the support of a robust and inclusive community.  With its importance in the global […]

Austin has it all. A great creative streak and a booming tech scene.  Dell, Texas Instruments, Apple, Amazon, Indeed, Facebook, and Google all have offices in Austin. The city also has a great startup culture. With this level of support, it comes as no surprise that there are plenty of free coding classes in Austin […]

These days, most software developers collaborate using Git. In this follow up to an introduction to Git and How to Get Started with GitHub, you’ll get some hands on experience working with branches in Git and learn how you can use them to collaborate effectively with your team. Creating a project Let’s start by creating […]

Terrifying. Scary. Fear. These are words that should be used for Halloween or horror movies, not about attending a coding bootcamp. Investing in yourself shouldn’t be something that keeps you up at night.  You probably have a few questions about what’s next and there are probably a few things that might scare you about learning […]