Flatiron School Blog

Christine Beaubrun was a student in Flatiron School’s NYC Web Development Fellowship. Now she works as a developer at Intel. She originally posted this story in her blog. A man and a woman told me on two separate occasions “You don’t look like a programmer” and “You’re too creative to be a programmer.” Though their […]

Last month, we were so excited to work with Fog Creek Software to provide to eight newly-graduated Flatiron women with Fog Creek mentors and a seriously nice co-working spot.   Today, the news gets even better! Stack Exchange has joined the Fellowship to offer another eight Flatiron women desk space in their office, experienced mentors—and […]

Every month, we’re really happy to host ManhattanJS, a group of JS enthusiasts (including a bunch of our alums!) who bring great programmers together to talk about their work, passions, and sometimes cats. Yesterday evening marked the latest of these gatherings—and we had a blast. Here’s proof! All photo credits go to the talented Matthew […]

Using the Twitter Streaming API liz-baillie: For my upcoming Flatiron Presents Meetup presentation (which is TONIGHT, eek!), my presentation partner Luke and I went through a number of ideas before settling on the topic of Using the Ruby-Processing Gem. After explaining how the gem works and what it does, we initially wanted to reenact a…

Like so many of our alums, Michael and Joe both applied to Flatiron School at points in their lives when they weren’t sure what was next: Joe was an economics major turned Marine, and Michael was shirking questions about applying to PhD programs. Now full-time developers, they used their time at Flatiron to level up […]

… and Ruby 005 student Ben Serviss has cleverly used them as an analogy for learning to program. Who knew! Here’s his post, reblogged from here.  The first time I walked into The Flatiron School, I thought to myself: “What are these crazy orange things?” I had come to one of the weekly NYC on Rails meetups […]