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Two ways the tech industry can help women thrive in the workplace

The National Center for Women & Information Technology found that women hold only 25% of computing-related occupations – clearly not representative of women’s representation in the population overall. But it may be even more alarming that when women do get jobs in the tech industry, they often ...

Why DevOps Is The New Black

When most people consider a software career, they think about coding applications or websites. And indeed, there are a lot of job opportunities in these areas. But there is a whole other side to software development that is less discussed: DevOps and Systems Engineering. Once an application is ...

Sylvain Kalache, Holberton School

The Best Bootcamp Prep Programs: Your Complete Guide

How To Know If You Need A Prep Course + Our Guide To The Best Programs Bootcamps have changed A LOT in the past few years: Research shows that over 18,300 students attended bootcamps in 2016, and the number of schools has tripled in size since 2014. Greater accessibility means that high quality ...

By: Hannah Rose, Community Manager at SwitchUp

At This School, Students Don’t Pay Until They Get a Job

Worried about paying for a bootcamp? Thinkful's new ISA might help! One of the keys to Thinkful’s approach over the years has been to align their success with student outcomes. Their recent launch of Income Share Agreements is another step in that direction. With only a handful of school ...

Hannah Rose, SwitchUp

When Comparing Bootcamps, Consider A Smaller Class Size

Traditional university classroom sizes range anywhere from 25-40 people, edging upwards of 50+ students in lecture halls. While these numbers seem to be the rule in universities and coding bootcamps alike, Rithm School has been proving itself to be the exception. Each classroom is capped at 16 ...

Angelina Davis, Rithm School

Learn How To Design Voice Interactions With CareerFoundry and Amazon Alexa

Voice interactions have already seen huge growth in 2017. The Amazon Alexa Skills Store has grown exponentially and now there are more than 15,000 skills available to customers, with more being added every day. People across the globe are starting to realize that voice command is no longer ...

Florence Collins, CareerFoundry

5 Ways to Get Unstuck When Learning to Code Online

We’ve all been there: staring at the computer screen, fingers frozen, a headache coming on fast, unable to even think about working. Some students join online coding programs like Flatiron School’s Online Web Developer Program because they excel at learning online, blasting through lessons and ...

Josh Hirshfeld, Flatiron School

Bootcamp Scholarship List - Apply now for Fall 2017

Fall Bootcamp and Code School Scholarships Updated as of October 12th, 2017. Scholarships are listed in alphabetical order by school. A bootcamp can be a life-changing experience, but covering tuition is a challenge for many students. Bootcamp tuition averages almost $13,000, and most programs ...

By: Hannah Rose, Community Manager at SwitchUp

Meet Meg Duffy, Progam Manager of the Grace Hopper Program

The Grace Hopper Program is excited to announce their new Progam Manager, Meg Duffy. With a background in written and video content development, Meg loves connecting people with the information they need to do their best work. We sat down with her to learn more about her background and the Grace ...

Sabio Launches New Cybersecurity Program for Fall 2017

The world as we know it is getting smaller and smaller. What was once thousands of miles away is now several taps away on your computer keyboard. Your data - all those different passwords, the foundational information that makes your company tick - company emails, correspondence with vendors and ...

Liliana Monge, Sabio Co-Founder & CEO

BrainStation awards over $1,000,000 in Scholarships

BrainStation’s mission is to empower individuals and organizations to achieve digital success - from accelerating career growth to transforming careers. As part of this mission, they seek passionate, lifelong learners to join them each semester in their multi-disciplinary community of creatives, ...

SwitchUp

Hackbright Academy Brings Bootcamp Prep Program to the South Bay

Due to popular request, Hackbright Academy is launching a new program in the South Bay. Hackbright Prep, a course that helps students become bootcamp ready, will teach the foundations of programming, how to use necessary tools, and ultimately the best strategy to tackle the bootcamp application ...

Alumna Spotlight: Stacy Harrison, Tech Elevator

Stacy got her start in a variety of disciplines, from copywriting to marketing and design. While she loved the opportunity to keep learning new skills, she began to feel that her “jack-of-all-trades” background made it difficult to build a career she loved. Intrigued by web development, she ...

Mary Bergeron, SwitchUp

4 Common Career Paths for Data Science Bootcamp Graduates

The data science field is broad, so those who have the necessary mix of skills can venture down a number of exciting, challenging career paths. At Metis, we’ve had the privilege of training and offering career services to 356 bootcamp graduates (and counting!) across 4 locations. They’re now ...

Megan Ayraud, Head of Careers at Metis

From Clinical Nurse to Data Analyst Revolutionizing the Healthcare Industry

From Clinical Nurse to Data Analyst Revolutionizing the Healthcare Industry Mina Yi is currently a data analyst in an analytics group of a healthcare technology company that focuses on reducing costs, optimizing delivery, and improving the quality of healthcare in the United States. The road to ...

Claire Tu, NYC Data Science Academy

From Sales to Software Development in Six Months

After spending years doing sales for the tech industry, Thinkful graduate Brian McMinn started getting drawn towards working in a technical role. Once he decided that web technologies were the most promising, Brian enrolled in Thinkful’s Full-Time Web Development Bootcamp. Upon graduating the ...

Aaron Fazulak, Thinkful

Inside New TechConnect Coding Scholarship with StackOverflow

In an effort to build a more diverse developer community in the immediate future, Flatiron School has partnered with Stack Overflow to launch the TechConnect Scholarship. This scholarship fund cuts tuition in half ($750/month) for women, minorities, the LGBTQ community, as well as those isolated ...

Josh Hirshfeld, Flatiron School

Why a VP at Deutsche Bank added Data Science to his Resume

Jhonasttan Regalado worked in various technology roles at bulge-bracket banks on wall street before joining Deutsche Bank as a VP, leading their development and implementation of an IT Operations Support framework. He first became interested in data science as a casual interest, taking ...

NYC Data Science Academy

Employer Spotlight: Intrepid Pursuits

We interviewed Launch Academy graduate Helen Hood, now Senior Developer at Intrepid Pursuits , a digital product, strategy, design, and development firm with locations in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and New York City. In this Q&A, Hood shares what Intrepid looks for in new web developer hires, ...

Maria Liang, Launch Academy

Alumni Spotlight: Aaron Pennington | 2017 Web Development Bootcamp Grad

We love to hear stories of how bootcampers succeed. We had the chance to sit down with Aaron Pennington, a recent graduate from Devry Bootcamp. Aaron graduated from January 2017. You can find his work on GitHub, and read on to learn about his bootcamp experience. Tell us a little bit about what ...

Hannah Rose, SwitchUp

How this Veteran went from Coding Bootcamp to Software Engineer

Bootcamp students come from all walks of life: some start in marketing and sales, others are entrepreneurs looking to build a prototype, and many just looking for a solid skillset to start their career. Roberto Quezada is a former Marine who spent over a decade working in IT, nursing a passion ...

Hannah Rose, SwitchUp

Q&A with Adarsh Srinivas, Springboard Alumnus

Springboard has recently launched a Data Science bootcamp with a job guarantee. We sat down with Adarsh Srinivas, an alum of Springboard's Data Science Intensive, to learn more about his experience. While working toward his Master's Degree in Information Systems, Adarsh became passionate about ...

Mary Bergeron, SwitchUp

From Bootcamp Grad to Software Engineer at Microsoft.

Gema Ramila is a Sabio fellow who’s a few months into her first job at Microsoft. Specifically, Gema is a Software Engineer I working on the Bing Experience within Cortana in the Windows codebase. Gema was inspired to become a software developer because she has always liked logic. She had been ...

Sara Ines Calderon, Sabio

Code Fellows Graduate Advice for Others

The best way to know what to expect from a coding school is to talk to the people who have been in the trenches. Code Fellows alumni have seen the good, the bad, and the ugly of spending every waking moment thinking about code—whether they’re updating their existing skill set or actively ...

Sarah Fischer

Fast Company Op-ed: How Bootcamps Can Scale Sustainably

The bootcamp world experienced a shake-up earlier this year when two high-profile programs, Dev Bootcamp and The Iron Yard, announced plans to close. The news took many by surprise, prompting students and schools to wonder: what does this mean for bootcamps and the students they serve? In a new ...

Mary Bergeron, SwitchUp

The Best Bootcamp Prep Programs: Your Complete Guide

How To Know If You Need A Prep Course + Our Guide To The Best Programs Bootcamps have changed A LOT in the past few years: Research shows that over 18,300 students attended bootcamps in 2016, and the number of schools has tripled in size since 2014. Greater accessibility means that high quality ...

By: Hannah Rose, Community Manager at SwitchUp

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

The 5 Common Fears Keeping You from Coding Bootcamp (and How to Overcome Them)

The 5 Common Fears Keeping You from Coding Bootcamp (and How to Overcome Them) The more we learn about human decision-making, the more emotional and less rational we know ourselves to be. Take coding bootcamps: For the right candidate, rationally speaking, the benefits far outweigh the costs. ...

Emily Rose Prats, Fullstack Academy

Two ways the tech industry can help women thrive in the workplace

The National Center for Women & Information Technology found that women hold only 25% of computing-related occupations – clearly not representative of women’s representation in the population overall. But it may be even more alarming that when women do get jobs in the tech industry, they often ...

Deciding Which Coding Language to Learn? Here's a Quick Breakdown

Technology is advancing quicker than ever, and because of that, so are the needs of hiring managers on the never-ending search to find programmers who know the right coding languages. There's no better time for programming enthusiasts and beginners alike. Are you interested in learning a new ...

Justin Miller, Startup Institute

Comparing University and Traditional Bootcamps? Consider Outcomes First

The technology education space as we know it is changing rapidly, and bootcamps are feeling the pressure to keep up. In addition to the surprising news of recent closures, we’ve also seen the emergence of university-bootcamp partnerships. Now, students can attend a bootcamp under the brand of a ...

Before The Bootcamp: How Prep Courses Are a Window to The World of Software Engineering

As coding bootcamps gain traction as a viable alternative to Computer Science degrees, a new trend is emerging. More and more schools now offer prep programs; courses designed to equip novice and junior coders with the chops necessary to tackle a full-immersion, senior-level bootcamp. What is it ...

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...

SwitchUp Team

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...

SwitchUp Team

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...

SwitchUp Team