Flatiron School Blog

If Flatiron School is known for one thing, it's giving people the skills they need for jobs they truly love. The White House has featured Flatiron School's Fellowship program on their website to promote Tech Hire — an initiative for people with low-income wages to boost their quality of life and address the nation's growing […]

Christina Phillipson and Quincy Morgan aren't your average teenagers. The stepsisters (Christina is going into 11th grade and Quincy into 9th) decided to hatch big plans this summer. Between Software Engineering and Web Design classes, they now speak the same languages as professional software developers. Read on to find out how they've combined their strengths in […]

You may not have heard Yukihiro Matsumoto’s name before, but it’s almost guaranteed you know his life’s work. Matsumoto (Matz for short) taught himself programming in high school and went on to graduate from the University of Tsukuba with a degree in information science. While there, he partook in a research lab and continued to […]

D. Frank Smith wrote an article at EdTech highlighting the booming popularity of coding — and how Flatiron School is filling that much-needed gap in lieu of traditional education settings. Click here to read more about the Pre-College Academy and how Flatiron School finds fantastic teachers.  

If you attended high school any time after 1999, odds are you’ve read Justin Kestler’s work. As the original editor-in-chief of SparkNotes, Justin taught himself rudimentary web development and went on to become the senior managing director of digital for Teach for America (TFA). After his experience there, Justin knew he needed more technical training, […]

This blog is part of a continuous series that highlights experiences, insights, and tutorials from learning developers at Flatiron in Web and iOS. This may not be the most interesting of all stories, but it's one that needs to be told. That begs to be heard. And here I am, giving this story its very own particular voice […]