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The Big 3 - What Do Programming Students Look For?

What traits do prospective students look for in a coding program? Are students looking for the fastest way to learn to code? Are they looking for a degree? Or are they simply looking for a program that will provide them with the best value and a chance to develop real-world skills? In this ...

Suzie Kirschner, Holberton School

Why Career Services Matter in Your Bootcamp Search

At Flatiron School, we don’t believe our responsibility to our students ends when they graduate. A coding bootcamp is a chance to reinvent your career and to reinvent yourself. This is why we have best-in-class Career Services. Our only priority is to help students get jobs and to start a tech ...

Charles Poladian, Flatiron

The Complete Guide to The Tech Academy's Four New Bootcamp Tracks

The Tech Academy is excited to announce the launch of their four new bootcamp tracks, each with a different focus of study. These four new bootcamps include: the C# and .NET Framework Bootcamp, the Python Developer Bootcamp, the Front-End Web Developer Bootcamp, and their premiere program, the ...

Lindsay Young, The Tech Academy

Money Isn’t Everything… but It Helps. Welcome to Code

Software Developers can make well over six figures during their career. Code Institute breaks it down.

We all know the saying, “money isn’t everything”, but when the Bureau of Labor Statistics tells you that the average coder earns more than $100k per annum, it generally helps. Then, when Payscale.com tells you the average starting salary is $68k - it’s enough to make your eyes water. Everyday ...

Ciara McGlynn, Code Institute

School Spotlight: Interview with Helio Training's Danny Warren

Helio Training instructor Danny Warren explains his background and why he loves teaching at the program.

Helio Training is a top tech bootcamp in Salt Lake City, Utah. We had a chance to sit down with instructor Danny Warren to discuss the program and also delve into his technical background. He provides advice for recent graduates as well as incoming students. Read on to learn more about his ...

Erica Freedman, SwitchUp

LearningFuze Launches Part-Time, Immersive Course

LearningFuze is now offering a part-time program for those in need of flexible learning.

As the Director of Operations at LearningFuze, Bill Cunningham has geared up with his team to launch a new part-time version of their Full Immersion course. The Part-Time Comprehensive program is tailored to students who are looking for a part-time alternative to the full immersion program and ...

Bill Cunningham, LearningFuze

In the Minority: Women in Programming

Coding Dojo's Noelle Caldwell gives her personal experience on being a woman working in STEM.

In college, I was one of a handful of females in a 100+ class of Information Systems students. In my master’s program in the same field, I was the sole female in a sea of 42 white males. With the fast-paced growth of today’s technology, the number of women working in STEM fields is slowly ...

Noelle Caldwell, Coding Dojo

4 Things to Focus on When Saving for a Bootcamp

Fullstack Academy helps future bootcamp students navigate cost.

Thinking about your budget is not something most people enjoy. Money can be a hard topic to deal with, but it’s an important factor to consider as you look at different coding bootcamps. With the average bootcamp costing upwards of $10,000 in tuition alone, we’re talking about a significant ...

Nikki Carter, Fullstack Academy

Giveaway Winner Spotlight: Ironhack's Cristina Traba Deza

Cristina attended Ironhack and got a great new career. She also won our review giveaway!

Cristina Traba Deza is a design lover in all its forms. She studied Architecture while working on different architecture firms and just after graduating decided to focus her career on the digital side of design. She attended Ironhack’s UX/UI bootcamp. Now she works as a UX designer at Graphext, ...

Erica Freedman, SwitchUp

Flatiron School Announces Three New Ways to Learn Online

Flaitron School Launches their Online Software Engineering Bootcamp

Flatiron School is excited to launch our Online Software Engineering Bootcamp. Students can now choose from a self-paced program, a part-time structured program, and a full-time structured program. All three Online Software Engineering Bootcamp courses feature our world-class curriculum, a ...

Charles Poladian, Flatiron School

Q&A with Cole Dixon, Dean of The Tech Academy, Denver

Dean of The Tech Academy Denver offers valuable insights to future bootcamp students.

Just one month ago, The Tech Academy opened a third campus in the Denver, Colorado area. As mentioned in a previous post, deciding to make the move to Denver was a no-brainer. Denver boasts a booming tech industry and one of the country’s lowest unemployment rates. Also, employment for tech ...

Lindsey Young, The Tech Academy

Announcing Springboard’s New Deferred Tuition Plan

If you need to wait to pay for your bootcamp education, this highly rated program could be your perfect match.

Springboard is on a mission to bridge the world’s skills gap by helping as many people as possible access high-quality, affordable education that they can translate into new-economy roles in fields like data science. Investing time and money in education is a big commitment, and not one many ...

T.J. Degroat

Student Spotlight: Misa Nguyen on Bloc's Designer Track

Researching. Prototyping. Front-end coding. These are just some of skills necessary to make it as as a designer. Misa Nguyen, a student in Bloc’s designer track, has spent the past 6 months acquiring and perfecting them. To help prospective students understand what that experience is like, we ...

Adam Levenson, Bloc

Giveaway Winner Spotlight: Designation's Natalie Parke

Natalie studied at Designation and went from a TEDx Director to UX Interaction Designer.

Natalie is a Chicago based UX Designer/UX Researcher. She likes making all kinds of things but is currently focused on making systems, interfaces, and designs that are human-friendly, clear, and usable. Her previous work as a TEDx Director and a non-profit law clerk taught her how to use ...

Erica Freedman, SwitchUp

How Coding Bootcamp Projects Prove Your Worth to Employers

Explore Fullstack Academy student projects to see what they have created to get hired.

We get it. Coding bootcamps can seem way too good to be true. How can someone go in with NO experience programming and emerge just 17 weeks later ready for a job as a developer? Don’t people go to school for years to get to that point? As unbelievable as it may seem, it is true and coding ...

Nikki Carter, Fullstack Academy

Man on the Move: A Springboard Alum’s Data Science Journey

Springboard recently sat down with one of their Data Science Career Track alumni, Julio, to get an update.

Julio Cárdenas-Rodríguez is a man on the move. After earning a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy and biology at Mexico City’s La Salle University and running clinical trials at Merck, he moved to the United States, where he finished his Ph.D. in physical chemistry and began working as a professor ...

T.J. Degroat, Springboard

Thinkful Student Uses Data Science to Predict Touchdowns

Find out how this Thinkful student uses Data Science to predict NFL outcomes.

I bet you 5 bucks they score a touchdown on this play. The last time I heard someone make a wager like that was during Super Bowl LII. Not only would I guess incorrectly and leave my friend’s Super Bowl party five dollars poorer, my beloved Patriots would end up losing to the Philadelphia ...

Adam Levenson, Thinkful

The Path from Teaching to Data Science in Dubai

This NYC Data Science Academy alumnus took his passion for mathematics and applied it to Data Science.

Sean Kickham came a long way from St. Louis when he pursued his degree and his career in education. He now has a long way to go, farther east, for his new job in Dubai. Sean always had an interest in math that he first directed toward teaching. When he decided to explore a new career path, he ...

Claire Tu, NYC Data Science Academy

Giveaway Winner Spotlight: DecodeMTL's Kamylle Grenier

Kamylle, DecodeMTL alumnus, is now a full-time UI/UX Designer at MediaClip.

Kamylle is a frontend developer, a UI/UX designer, a Montréaler, a video game maker, a game jammer, a cookie decorator, a swing dancer, a VR enthusiast, a cat lover and a french speaker. She attended DecodeMTL’s program and now works at MediaClip as a UX/UI Designer and Integrator. Learn more ...

Erica Freedman, SwitchUp

Josh Chang: Level Alum to Senior Marketing Manager at HubSpot

Level Alumni Josh Chang Shares His Story with SwitchUp.

Over the last three years, Level Data Analytics alumni have used their bootcamp experience to move on to data-driven roles in the fields of data analytics, data science, research, healthcare, marketing and management, to name a few. Since graduating Level, alum Josh Chang has been enjoying his ...

Juliana Lebowitz, Level

Giveaway Winner Spotlight: Springboards's Kumi Okimura

Kumi attended Springboard's UX Design program. She went in search of her passion but found so much more.

Kumi is currently a stay-at-home mom working on getting back into the career space. Previously, she worked in desktop publishing, online content management, and e-commerce, and most recently in the healthcare field, in physical therapy. She has always been interested in ergonomics and usability ...

Erica Freedman, SwitchUp

Giveaway Winner Spotlight: Le Wagon's Francisco Gaivão

Francisco was unsure of everything in his life until he found Le Wagon and code.

Francisco Gaivão hasn’t ever really known what he wanted to do with his life. From high-school through college, he was only in classes because of requirements. When he found coding, everything changed. Francisco had an incredible experience learning at Le Wagon because of the collaborative ...

Erica Freedman, SwitchUp

Giveaway Winner Spotlight: Bloc's Ashley Nowakowski

Ashley's career wasn't a good fit until she found Bloc. Now she's a developer.

I’m Ashley Nowakowski, and I am from a suburb outside of Los Angeles, California. I went to a 4 year private university in LA and had no idea what I wanted to study before enrolling in the school. Upon graduating and spending 4 years as an ESL teacher, I realized it wasn’t for me. I came across ...

Erica Freedman, SwitchUp

Giveaway Winner Spotlight: Lambda School’s Ron G.

Ron had a degree in computer science but pursued Lambda School to deepen his coding knowledge.

Ron G. attended Lambda School after attaining a degree in Computer Science to catapult his career into full-stack web development. His advice for recent graduates? Apply everywhere! I know developers who put out 100 applications only to get 2 replies but of those two replies they are working at ...

Erica Freedman, SwitchUp

Money Isn’t Everything… but It Helps. Welcome to Code

Software Developers can make well over six figures during their career. Code Institute breaks it down.

We all know the saying, “money isn’t everything”, but when the Bureau of Labor Statistics tells you that the average coder earns more than $100k per annum, it generally helps. Then, when Payscale.com tells you the average starting salary is $68k - it’s enough to make your eyes water. Everyday ...

Ciara McGlynn, Code Institute

School Spotlight: Interview with Helio Training's Danny Warren

Helio Training instructor Danny Warren explains his background and why he loves teaching at the program.

Helio Training is a top tech bootcamp in Salt Lake City, Utah. We had a chance to sit down with instructor Danny Warren to discuss the program and also delve into his technical background. He provides advice for recent graduates as well as incoming students. Read on to learn more about his ...

Erica Freedman, SwitchUp

Top Tech Training in the South

Tech training reaches beyond Silicon Valley and NYC. See how these southern states measure up.

A recent MoneyWatch article listed several up-and-coming tech cities throughout the United States, and a number of them are in the south. Huntsville, Alabama, Kansas City, Missouri and Nashville, Tennessee are just a few of the cities becoming the best places to launch a tech career. Southern ...

Erica Freedman, SwitchUp

Python & C#.Net Job Market Analysis

Coding Temple breaks down the career benefits of learning Python and the C#.Net framework.

In today’s world, technology is king. Whether you’re performing an everyday task or relaxing at home, you’re almost always using technology. For those of us that are developers, or who would like to become developers, we ask the big question… which language should we know? To answer that ...

Connor Milliken, Coding Temple

Coding Bootcamps with Job Guarantees

Bootcamps are great for career changers. Access these programs for guaranteed career support.

There are many reasons to attend a coding bootcamp, but the number one reason we hear from students is undoubtedly to land a job. Bootcamp students are on the hunt for careers that offer more in terms of salary and upward mobility. Although most bootcamps are motivated to help their students ...

Erica Freedman, SwitchUp

Ruby vs Javascript: What Should I Study?

Ruby & Javascript are top programming languages. This guide is here to help you get started.

Ruby vs Javascript: The Basics Ruby and Javascript are both object oriented programming languages that appeared on the tech scene in the mid-1990s. Ruby and Javascript are similar in that they are scripting languages that are also dynamic and general purpose. Not sure what these terms mean? Let ...

Erica Freedman, SwitchUp

Compare Coding Bootcamp Costs: A SwitchUp Guide

Bootcamp costs are a top consideration for prospective students. Use our guide to break down price.

Thanks to free coding bootcamp options and newly formed deferred tuition and ISA programs, bootcamps range widely in cost. When considering such a big investment, it’s important to have a good understanding of your own finances, desired outcomes, and the payment options available to you. In ...

Erica Freedman, SwitchUp

Backend vs. Frontend Development: Which Is Best?

If you're confused by backend vs frontend as it applies to career options, this guide will clear things up.

If you’ve decided to study programming, but are still unclear about the industry lingo, you’ve come to the right place. Backend, frontend, and full stack development are three separate career paths that can sometimes feel muddied in the technology space. Put plainly, back end developers are ...

Erica Freedman, SwitchUp

LGBTQIA+ Coding Bootcamp Scholarship Guide

A comprehensive list of coding bootcamp scholarships for LGBTQIA+ students.

Gay pride or LGBTQIA+ pride, is the positive stance against discrimination and violence toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and asexual (LGBTIA+) people to promote self-affirmation, dignity and equal rights. As the LGBTQIA+ community has gained visibility and acceptance, ...

Erica Freedman, SwitchUp

Needed: CS Skills in Non-Tech Jobs

Coding Dojo shows research that coders are needed in non-tech spaces.

We live in the era where data management of almost everything is done digitally in fields such as; communication, healthcare, banking, travel and transportation, business transactions and a lot more. Making life and work less laborious and less time-consuming with the help of computers, ...

Rajan Selvan, Coding Dojo

Designation: The UI or UX Path

Designation Labs' designer track helps students focus on UI or UX studies. Learn the difference:

Designation Labs is an immersive digital design program located in Chicago. Over the course of 12 weeks learning remotely and 12 weeks learning in-person, designers absorb the full stack of design skills—UX, IxD, and UI; research, practice, and presentation—then put those skills to work for ...

Erica Freedman, SwitchUp

4 Bootcamp Myths Debunked with Fullstack Academy

Fullstack Academy addresses common bootcamp misconceptions in this new piece:

Coding bootcamps aren’t new anymore, but they’re certainly not as established as traditional educational institutions like four-year colleges and universities, which means there are a lot of misconceptions out there. To compound the confusion, the bootcamp industry has matured considerably over ...

Emily Rose Prats, Fullstack Academy

Best Coding Bootcamps

The Comprehensive 2017 Guide

Choosing a code school can be difficult, even overwhelming. But don’t worry, we’ve got your back and narrowed it down to the top 34 bootcamps in the world...

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Best Data Science Bootcamps

The 2017 Insider's Guide

Over the past year and a half, we’ve amassed hundreds of data science bootcamp reviews and gathered thousands of data points to bring you our list of recommendations and rankings...

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Best Web Design Courses

Top-Reviewed Programs in 2017

Have you ever seen a webpage and been blown away by the design? Or, better yet, have you ever seen a page that needs a little work? Maybe it’s not user-friendly or responsive. Maybe it’s got way too much going on and needs to be simplified. Maybe it needs a special touch. Maybe it needs you!

SwitchUp Team

Best Cyber Security Bootcamps

The Comprehensive Guide

Why Cybersecurity? The number and frequency of cyberattacks is on the rise, and the demand for employees with cyber security training is now higher than ever...

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