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Flatiron School
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Flatiron School is the company blog at flatironschool.com, writing about career and programming. Since 2012, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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22mentions?
20HN people?
2012–2024first – last linked?
Too few sampled comments (19) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Flatiron School pages, mainly its job-outcome reports, in threads about coding bootcamps and hiring. The links are usually cited as graduate-outcome data, not as commentary.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 19 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Flatiron School trains adaptive people to build leverage in a world of accelerating systems. Programs in AI, Cybersecurity, and Software Engineering.
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- /6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2012-08-07
What Hacker News says?
Flatiron School (now part of WeWork) | Software Engineers, esp. Seniors | New York, NY (NYC) | ONSITE | FULL-TIME Hi, I'm the Engineering Director on the Product/Engineering team at the Flatiron School. I joined the team about four months ago as part of a general scaling up of the team (we're currently about 25 devs and growing) and love it. We mostly work on Learn, a modern Learning Management System that runs the…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2018)”Submitted Fathers Became Software Engineers for Their Families as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI wonder if a new position will emerge to help with freshly trained programmers out of programs / curriculum like this. For instance, if a company is willing to pay 100k for an experienced programmer with years of training and experience, what is a fair rate for fresh grads out of a coding boot camp? The trouble, to me, seems that freshly boot camp trained folks apply to the same jobs and it just doesn't make sense.…
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on “A Site That Teaches You to Code Well Enough to Get a Job”Submitted Flatiron School: iOS Curriculum as a story · 1 points
HN discussionBypass email requirement: http://flatironschool.com/jobs-report-2014-ty
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on “Ask HN: Does anyone actually hire from 'developer bootcamps'?”Flatiron School has published an audited 3rd party job report about the success of our graduates. http://flatironschool.com/jobs-report-2014 AFAIK we're the only school to actually do that and not just talk about it. Additionally, if you're into more of a narrative, check out our annual report. http://far.flatironschool.com/ Judge for yourself. <3 // Avi Flombaum
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on “Ask HN: Does anyone actually hire from 'developer bootcamps'?”"I bacon eat" Ruby syntax apparently is especially nice if you know Japanese: https://flatironschool.com/blog/ruby-and-the-japanese-langua...
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on “Rails is not written in Ruby”There is a nascent organization called the Council on Integrity in Results Reporting [0] that some bootcamps / code schools belong to. This is probably the best resource for such data. I think Flatiron School's jobs reports [1] come closest to setting a good example. No affiliation, just researching schools. [0] http://cirr.org [1] https://flatironschool.com/outcomes
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on “Learning Coding After 40 and Leaving the 9 to 5 Job”Hey everyone, Thanks for checking out the bash profile generator! I'm a student at Flatiron School[1] NYC (where we have electricity in NYC, no small feat today) and this project came about when we were learning to setup our CLIs in the first week. Please let me know if you have any comments/feedback on twitter: @rexfeng [1] http://flatironschool.com/
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on “Halloween Bash Profile Generator”If you're finding part-time study too slow, there are a number of non-academic contexts in which you can study code full time. Despite the reputation, there are some web-dev bootcamps that have good placement rates. A few in the US: 1) http://www.fullstackacademy.com/ 2) http://www.hackreactor.com/ 3) http://flatironschool.com/ If you're a woman, there's the deferred tuition (no charge until you have a job) option:…
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on “It’s a Tough Job Market for the Young Without College Degrees”Hey Mike! We'd love to, sounds like fun. In the meantime, try our buddies at http://flatironschool.com/
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on “Catalyst: a new front-end developer training program”As a side note to the article, it's interesting to contrast the author's RoR school ( http://flatironschool.com/ ) where the goal is to get people from zero to junior level with that of Hacker School ( https://www.hackerschool.com/ ) that wants to take people from average to "ninja-rockstar" level (or at least a better engineer). I don't think that the goal of having more junior level engineers out there is a bad on…
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on “Startups: Stop Trying To Hire Ninja-Rockstar Engineers ”... you can learn to code! Couple options: If you need something not too intensive you could go with Treehouse ( http://teamtreehouse.com/ ) which has really good topic-specific videos and interactive quizzes. If you can afford the money and time then go with something more intensive such as a bootcamp - I recommend Flatiron School ( http://flatironschool.com/ ). You'll learn a whole lot in 3 months. There's also Th…
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on “Have a startup idea but don't know how to code?”If you're interested in gSchool, you should take a look at the following: http://catalystclass.com/ http://devbootcamp.com/ (mentioned elsewhere in this thread) http://appacademy.io/ http://hackbrightacademy.com/ http://flatironschool.com/ All are based in SF, except Flatiron, which is in NYC. (I'm a cofounder at Catalyst. Ask me anything!)
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on “Denver's gSchool: 6 months and 60 hours per week turns you into a web developer”I found some free courses/schools here: http://www.npower.org/ "Non-profit Npower offers this free program to young adults ages 18 to 25. The program hosts two class cycles per year, beginning in January and July, with each running a total of 22 weeks, including 15 weeks of class-based training and _7 weeks of paid internship_. The courses are based at Npower’s HQ in Downtown Brooklyn and in Harlem." https://flatiro…
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on “Reverse Job Search: I will pay to work at your company”This blog post is extremely misleading: the three featured alumni [0] on the Flatiron School's web site all have 4 years of college at good schools (one even has an MFA) Saron Yitbarek - University of Maryland College Park B.A. English, B.S. Psychology 2007 – 2011 [1] Justin Belmont - Tufts University BA, English 1999 – 2003 Columbia University in the City of New York MFA, Nonfiction Writing 2005 – 2008 [2] Danny Ol…
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on “Finding ROI in Higher Education”Richard Feldman states in a video aiming to explain the popularity of OOP that Python initially had a small community for decades, and that Python's increase in popularity followed a slow and steady increase, which is not true of many other languages like Ruby. That's corroborated by the graph in this article. [0] Based on Python's slow and steady incresae, timing and luck don't seem like good factors for explaining…
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on “Mojo: It’s Finally Here”Immersive Software Apprenticeship. Programs similar to Hack Reactor and Flat Iron are trying to solve this problem as we speak. http://hackreactor.com/ http://flatironschool.com/
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on “How to create more qualified candidates for tech jobs”There are some excellent bootcamps out there that have better terms I believe than the offer you mention above. Here are just a few we have come across recently that you can check out. Not sure if you are looking for front-end, full-stack, or mobile dev to name a few, so I mixed it a bit: - https://www.thinkful.com/bootcamp/web-development/flexible/ - https://lambdaschool.com/courses/full-stack-web-development - htt…
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on “Ask HN: Recommended Coding Bootcamps?”I'm at Trello. We have this: http://flatironschool.com/fogcreek/ Outside of that -- I personally do some pro-bono tech work for a non-profit that I am on the board of.
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on “Ask HN: Pro Bono for developers?”I think you underestimate the task. Coding bootcamps (e.g. https://flatironschool.com/courses/coding-bootcamp/ ) go for several months full-time with a tutor.
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on “I wanna develop a marketplace platform”
