$1000 Scholarship for the DESIGNATION UX/UI Career Program

Thinking about a career in UX/UI design? Now is the perfect time to begin. Not only is there currently an enormous talent shortage in design, but now you can also get a $1000 scholarship to participate in one of the world’s most highly rated UX/UI design programs. UX/UI design is the career that ...

Will Shandling, DESIGNATION Co-Founder and Program Director

Founder Spotlight: Donnavan Kirk, Founder and President of TK2 Academy

TK2 Academy (Techknowledgy Academy) is a new coding bootcamp located in the heart of South Florida offering web immersive, iOS and Android development courses. The courses focus not only on coding, but also how to teach students to think outside the box. We had the chance to sit down with ...

Hannah Rose, SwitchUp

Free Resources for Future Entrepreneurs

Flatiron School is celebrating its fifth birthday this month by launching the Future Founders Scholarship – a $2,250 scholarship for innovators, risk-takers, problem-solvers, and someday-startup-founders. They’re also spotlighting Flatiron alums who have pursued entrepreneurship and offering ...

Josh Hirshfeld

Actualize Announces New Online Course | An Online Bootcamp Just Like In-Person

Actualize is proud to announce their new online course. Plus, They're offering a 30% discount for the first online cohort Apply now here. The options, of course, are endless. Coding bootcamps are gaining in popularity and the desire to learn a new skill or transition to a new career without ...

Rena Adler

The BrainStation Learning Portal | Online learning that’s as close to in-person as it gets

If you’ve dabbled in online learning, you’re likely familiar with the experience of finding a topic of interest, excitedly signing up, getting through the first few videos, but find your motivation and focus quickly wanes. There are a plethora of online learning options available for today’s ...

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Fullstack Academy Adheres to New Gold-Standard in Results Reporting

With so many options for coding bootcamps, potential students rely heavily on student outcomes to make informed decisions. CIRR (Council on Integrity in Results Reporting) is the new gold-standard for displaying and publishing student outcomes for coding bootcamps. Fullstack Academy is one of 15 ...

Daniel Weiss

Student Spotlight: Justin Munn on His Successful App, Donald Donates

While attending the Firehose Project bootcamp, Justin Munn was looking to channel his newfound skills to a project he was passionate about. Justin teamed up with two friends to build a product that would put a clever spin on political awareness, and raise money for charity in the process. The ...

Liberal Arts Graduates Excel at Sabio

At Sabio, we have seen our share of liberal arts graduates come into our program to learn how to code and then thrive in their new technical careers. The range of expertise has varied from ethnomusicology to literature. If there’s one thing that we have proven consistently at Sabio, it’s that ...

Adriana Maestas, Sabio

Build addicting games, tools, and apps at Fullstack Academy

Fullstack Academy offers a focused career accelerator. Students attend the immersive programs to launch successful and lucrative careers in software development. How do they achieve this? By displaying the in-demand technologies they’ve mastered through outstanding portfolio pieces. The most ...

Daniel Weiss, Fullstack Academy

Bootcamp Spotlight: Q&A with Israel Tech Challenge

Israel Tech Challenge is a non-profit coding education program based in Tel Aviv, Israel. We spoke with Lauren Glass, Data Scientist, Enrollment Specialist (and an ITC Alumna herself) to learn more about the ITC. What motivated you to start ITC? Facts are facts: the world needs more engineers. ...

Why you should consider this school to learn Data Science

Located in the heart of Manhattan, NYC Data Science Academy is one of the highest rated data science bootcamps on SwitchUp with 4.9 stars. One of the reasons for this is their curriculum, which is at the forefront of data science innovation and adapts from semester to semester to stay ahead of ...

Community Spotlight: The Toronto Tech Industry Wants You!

As Toronto’s original programming bootcamp, HackerYou grew out of a demonstrated need for a better option for cutting-edge digital skills training. In 2012, we ran just two courses. In 2017, we’re running more than 50 including our bootcamp program, which is now registered as a vocational ...

Siobhan Özege, HackerYou

Alumni Spotlight: Mike Adamski of Launch Academy on How to Switch to a Coding Career

In a follow up to last month's feature, we sit down with Mike Adamski, recent Launch Academy graduate and author of the blog Next Door Developer. A Launcher from the 16th Boston cohort, Mike went from warehouse worker to junior developer. In this Q&A, Mike gives us the rundown about his ...

Hannah Rose, SwitchUp

Alumni Speak Up: 4 Reasons The Iron Yard’s Courses Worked For Us

What better way to really learn about a coding bootcamp than to talk to actual alumni about their experiences? Our reviews do just that - real graduates share their real feedback about the school they attended, and leave it to you to decide what works best for you. We culled through dozens of ...

Alumni Spotlight: Domingos Lopes, hired at Google

Domingos Lopes is about to begin a new job involving machine learning at Google after having completed the NYC Data Science Academy 12-Week Data Science Bootcamp. He came in with a strong math background, having earned a PhD in that field from NYU in 2016. After deciding that he did not want his ...

Ariella Brown

Student Spotlight: Shriya Nevatia of Rithm School

Shriya Nevatia is a current student at Rithm who previously worked at two small startups in Community & Operations. She has a Computer Science degree from Tufts and is very involved in women in tech communities, including the Spectra hackathon and Ladies Storm Hackathons Facebook group. In her ...

Hannah Rose, SwitchUp

Student Spotlight: Justin Munn on His Successful App, Donald Donates

While attending the Firehose Project bootcamp, Justin Munn was looking to channel his newfound skills to a project he was passionate about. Justin teamed up with two friends to build a product that would put a clever spin on political awareness, and raise money for charity in the process. The ...

Liberal Arts Graduates Excel at Sabio

At Sabio, we have seen our share of liberal arts graduates come into our program to learn how to code and then thrive in their new technical careers. The range of expertise has varied from ethnomusicology to literature. If there’s one thing that we have proven consistently at Sabio, it’s that ...

Adriana Maestas, Sabio

Student Spotlight: Mike Adamski's Journey Through Launch Academy

Mike Adamski is a recent graduate of Launch Academy’s 16th Boston cohort. After working in a warehouse for over 7 years, he found himself craving change. What kind of change, exactly? In his own words, Mike explains how he arrived at a coding bootcamp, “I’ve been wanting to get out of my ...

Maria Liang, Launch Academy

Mara Wanot: Tech Recruiter to Junior Developer at The Financial Times

Congrats to Mara Wanot, our Winter Giveaway Winner! Mara is from London, United Kingdom. As a self described "Survivor" of Makers Academy, Mara went from being a contract tech recruiter to a Junior Developer at the Financial Times. What were you doing before joining Makers Academy? I was working ...

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Beyond the Bootcamp: Your Guide to a Successful Tech Career

As a prospective coding bootcamp student, you are probably curious: What comes after the bootcamp? In a new eBook, Beyond the Bootcamp: How to Craft a Career in Tech, Flatiron School offers a complete guide to planning – and getting – the lifelong tech career you want. Read on for an excerpt and ...

Flatiron School

DAVID LEWINE: From Commercial Fisherman to Teacher to Software Engineer at JANA

After a bit more than a year at the job, I’m still learning new things all the time and I have a sense of a lot of open possibilities that will afford continuous opportunities for learning new things — I still don’t know where this adventure will take me in the next few years, but I feel like ...

by Christine Zimmermann, Startup Institute

Student Spotlight: Latonya Rodgers | 2017 Web Dev Bootcamp Grad

We had a chance to sit down with Latonya Rodgers, an entrepreneur and recent grad from Devry Bootcamp, Colorado. LR Rodgers is a technology aficionado, author, innovator, entrepreneur and mentor. Her passion for helping others to establish small business strategies and develop technology ...

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Sabio Coding Bootcamp Empowers Tech Entrepreneurs

The Sabio coding bootcamp not only taught Melissa Hargis and Nicki Klein how to be awesome full stack .NET developers, it also ignited their entrepreneurial vision to propel their exciting and innovative tech startup, Betagig. The San Francisco Launch Hackathon 2016 winners are now poised to ...

High-Demand Tech Jobs in 2017: #3- Web & Mobile Design

Planning to build your tech career in 2017? You may want to consider a few high-demand fields that are positioned to take off this year. We’re profiling careers to watch, along with everything you need to get started. High-Demand Job #3: Web & Mobile Design Quick StatsMarket Growth: 10-year job ...

High-Demand Tech Jobs in 2017: #2- Data Science

Planning to build your tech career in 2017? You may want to consider a few high-demand fields that are positioned to take off this year. We’re profiling careers to watch, along with everything you need to get started. High-Demand Job #3: Data Science Quick StatsMarket Growth: By 2018, data ...

High-Demand Tech Jobs in 2017: #1- Cybersecurity

Planning to build your tech career in 2017? You may want to consider a few high-demand fields that are positioned to take off this year. We’re profiling careers to watch, along with everything you need to get started. High-Demand Job #1: Cybersecurity Quick StatsMarket Growth: expected to reach ...

Is It Time to Learn Cyber Security?

Tips for the Next Generation of Cyber Defenders

The need for Skilled Cybersecurity professionals is projected to grow in America, and globally, for the decades to come. And, with the growing volume of sophisticated cyber attacks, the demand for skilled cyber security professionals is quicking outstripping supply. Coding Bootcamps, like Evolve ...

Evolve Academy

Best NYC Coding Bootcamps

They say New York City is the city that never sleeps, but we’re thinking of petitioning to rename it the city that never stops coding. We know it can be hard to keep track sometimes, so we’ve decided to round up the best coding bootcamps in New York City. The information below should give a good ...

Sarah Miller

(Don’t) Learn to Code This Summer

If you want to fail at something, make it a big, hairy, audacious goal. “I will get in shape,” “I will be a better friend,” and “I will learn to code” are all great examples. Goals in general are misguided and formless ideas. Achieving something is the result of many small steps performed ...

The Bloc Team

Learning Responsive Web Design

Have you ever tried to buy a product on your smartphone only to find that the text is too hard to read or the page cuts off? Maybe you have tried to show a friend something interesting on your tablet, only to be frustrated when the page doesn't lay out as nicely as it did on your laptop? ...

Justin Miller, Startup Institute

Why You Don’t Need Experience to Become a Designer

As the Program Director at DESIGNATION, I personally interview every single UX and UI design applicant for our program. And by far the single most common question I get asked is, “Does it matter that I don’t have any prior design experience?” It’s an understandable question. Participating in a ...

By Will Shandling, DESIGNATION Co-Founder and Program Director

Students: you should learn to code this summer

Summer school has been synonymous with make-up classes or squeezing in that course too difficult to tackle during the spring or fall. Let’s flip the script a bit. Summer can be about maximizing the weeks in between semesters. It can be about learning a new set of skills that will make students ...

Lelia King, The Iron Yard

How students from around the world found success after Le Wagon

Here at Le Wagon, we're thrilled that our international program is now rated as one of the best bootcamps in the world on SwitchUp. This great news couldn’t have come to fruition without the true heroes of Le Wagon: our amazing alumni. Today, we’ve decided to introduce four of them and tell ...

Cedric Menteau, Le Wagon

The Three Little Pigs And Coding Programs

There are so many options for folks who want to become Software Engineers, and potential bootcamp students usually think of the location of the program, the topic, and price as the most important criteria. But there is another factor that is also really important to consider: the length of the ...

Sylvain Kalache, Holberton School

4 College Majors That Make Great Designers

Design is a problem solving tool that allows us to imagine, ideate, and create meaningful experiences. An effective designer has a variety of unique skills and experiences that allow them to solve some of the most ambiguous problems. Your past education and work experience is incredibly ...

Aaron Fazulak, Co-Founder and CEO of DESIGNATION

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!

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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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