Coding bootcamp graduates come from everywhere. Some attend immediately after college while others spend years at different professions before making the switch to coding. The educational background levels also don't need to be the same. | Continue reading
Over the past several decades, we’ve seen numerous programming languages emerge to promise us a glorious new future in software development. Languages such as Ada, Eiffel, Ruby, Java, Scala, and more recently, Clojure, Go, Rust, | Continue reading
If you’ve done any front-end development, you’ve heard of Bootstrap, the 900-pound gorilla when it comes to CSS framework that has about 10x the usage and prestige (at least according to Github statistics and this | Continue reading
As endless fires destroyed communities in Northern California this fall, surrounding populations experienced something more benign but just as deadly. The rise in pollution reached record highs, with San Francisco and Oakland beating the bad | Continue reading
Did you check out the first part of our wide-ranging conversation with 10x Club's Iyad Uakoub, the accelerator course's main career coach? If not, check it out here. Below is the second part, where Iyad talks about | Continue reading
Cody, Vickie, and Yaakov work at companies using cutting-edge technologies like AI, blockchain, and machine learning to change the future of tech—and the world. | Continue reading
Iyad Uakoub left Syria seven years ago, before President Bashar Al-Assad began a notorious purge of civil liberties that would end in atrocities. With his wife in tow, the young career services expert, who'd risen | Continue reading
App Academy’s Bootcamp Prep is considered the best intro-to-programming course by leading analysts of professional schools. But few people actually know how far Bootcamp Prep grads get in the tech industry — until now. In the | Continue reading
Early in her college career, Julianne Costa worked as one of the first retail employees for Warby Parker. The sunglass startup chain gave her a steady income and an opportunity to learn about business while | Continue reading
How does one go from working in finance and playing soccer to becoming a NASA coder? Ask Deep Tailor, a young man originally from Kenya who pushed himself to the top of his class at | Continue reading
Accelerator programs give young software developers an edge to boost their salary, position, and responsibility. The best courses, like App Academy’s 10x Club, do all those things and then they step on the gas. 10x | Continue reading
I’ve spent my entire professional career in the startup space. After a couple successes (and more than a couple failures), I’ve determined that I’m passionate about startups and it’s how I want to spend my | Continue reading
In 2015, there were half-a-million open positions in the software development and engineering fields. Tech companies, in other words, couldn’t hire people fast enough. Yet even with 60,000 Computer Science majors graduating that year in | Continue reading
App Academy’s Bootcamp Prep has placed 100 percent of graduates at the best coding bootcamps in the country because of its award-winning curriculum. It’s also the only prep course with a money-back guarantee. But what | Continue reading
Moving into a career in the tech industry in three months is hard. You have to learn difficult new technical skills and convince a company to give you an important job. It's kind of crazy. | Continue reading
One year ago today, I got a 0/20 on Assessment 0 on my first day at App Academy. One year ago today, I opened up my first terminal session. Ever. One year ago today, the most complicated | Continue reading
When it comes to cryptocurrency, Ethereum is not the other white meat. It’s younger and less expensive than Bitcoin, but it also has great capabilities Bitcoin does not. Chief among these is its incredible versatility | Continue reading
Shamayel Daoud was a science tutor for kids in San Francisco a few years ago when she had a realization: This city is way too expensive for me. She enjoyed the work but was living | Continue reading
Many years ago, Kelly Chung was a mathematics major at USC. He was a smart guy who could have easily continued in the academic direction but decided he didn’t want that particular career. After a | Continue reading
People choose a career in web development for many reasons. But an App Academy alumni survey and interviews with them reveal most do it for love of the work and that salary plays a key | Continue reading
When it comes to its stated values, App Academy practices what it preaches. For one, the bootcamp takes responsibility for students’ success by deferring course payment until after they get a job. It’s also true | Continue reading
After a brief hiatus, the Dear Eli column is back this week with great advice from App Academy’s Career and Talent Development Manager Eli Blair. Check out the previous versions of the column and expect to | Continue reading