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Lessons from Failing vs. Flailing
Becca Barton is a student at Flatiron School in the adult immersive program. This post originally appeared on her blog, which you can read here. Failing is one of those things we’re taught to avoid. It’s positioned in direct opposition of succeeding, in the way of being great at something. And rightfully so: it can be awful. […]
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Once a Flatiron student, now coming back to hire: Sterling Walker
A funny thing happened at our Flatiron “Speed Dating” event last week. A Flatiron Fellow who graduated a little over a year ago came back — this time to hire some students of her own. Breset Walker (known by most as Sterling Walker) is now Team Lead of Software Development at 2U, an educational tech […]
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5 Questions with KwK Scholar Hannah Breall
Between fashion design, dog showing, and excelling in school, we're not quite sure where Kode with Karlie scholar Hannah Breall finds the time to fit in so many lines of code. But with a passion for empowering women through technology and hoping to use her skills to help people with autism, we have a feeling she'll […]
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How Claude Shannon and One Formula Brought Us Into the Information Age
Welcome back to another edition of Code History Lesson, where we spotlight ye computer scientists of olde, one tech genius at a time._This week we're taking a look at Claude Shannon, a man who won 10 honorary doctorates, pioneered the digital revolution, and sometimes juggled on a unicycle while doing it. For your entertainment and education, […]
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Announcing the 2015 Kode with Karlie Scholars
In April we announced the Kode with Karlie Scholarship which offers free tuition to Flation School’s Pre-College academy to girls around the United States. Karlie Kloss, model, entrepreneur and founder of the Kode with Karlie Scholarship, was overwhelmed with the responses from young women who want to use their programming skills to change their communities and transform […]
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The Benefits of Blogging: How and Why To Keep A Technical Blog
This post was written by Vaidehi Joshi. Vaidehi is a writer turned programmer. She is a Barnard College alumna and graduate of The Flatiron School. Before learning to code, she was a professional Urdu student and a sixth grade teacher. You can stay up-to-date on the amazing things she's learning at her blog, Words and Code. […]
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Announcing the Kode with Karlie Scholarship for High School Girls
We’re thrilled to announce that we’re partnering with Karlie Kloss to create the #KodeWithKarlie Scholarship. The scholarship will give 20 girls across the country free tuition to Flatiron School’s Introduction to Software Engineering course. Karlie, model and co-founder of Karlie’s Kookies, started learning to code at Flatiron School in 2014. Since then, she’s worked to […]