Flatiron School Blog

Meet Flatiron student Russell Brown! He came to Flatiron School with a unique background, but quickly found home in the space of learning a new language. He has persevered and succeeded through adversity in his life to become one of the most inspiring stories we've ever featured. Here, Russell explains his journey: You have an […]

Lara M. moved to Australia from Moscow to begin a new career and a new life. She was an account manager at a marketing firm before discovering her passion for tech. In just over a year, Lara has found a community of developers in Sydney and a job as a front-end developer at an exciting […]

One of the biggest differences between professional software developers — compared to most people — is the care and precision with which they set up their computers. In this article, I’m going to run through the process of getting a Mac ready to program professionally using the Ruby programming language.  Why Ruby? There are lots […]

If you want to get up to speed with deep learning, which books should you read? Consider starting with one or more of these three! While the idea of artificial neural networks was first proposed in the 1940s, and the first perceptron was built in 1958, the field of deep learning really started to take […]

The 2019 Grace Hopper Celebration is an incredible three-day event filled with inspiring talks and informative workshops. We’re proud to be involved with the Anita Borg Foundation, the conference organizer, and to sponsor the 2019 Social Impact Abie Award. We want to highlight just a few panels that we thought you might like to attend. […]

Dr. Ramanujam is the Grace Hopper Celebration’s 2019 Social Impact Abie Award winner and we’re proud to sponsor this incredible award.