Why Technical Training Remains Relevant in the Era of AI

By Jeff Malek and AI on

In today’s rapidly advancing technological landscape, one question has become pervasive: with the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), is there still a need for human technical training?

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Embracing the Future: Code Fellows Integrates AI into Tech Education

By Mitchell Robertson on

In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, staying ahead of the curve is paramount for success. Here at Code Fellows, we have long held a reputation for leading the way in tech education, and we are continuing to do just that as we take a pioneering step by fully embracing Artificial Intelligence (AI) to prepare our graduates for the future. By integrating AI-powered tools like ChatGPT into our curriculum, we are revolutionizing the way students learn to code, innovate, and excel in the tech industry.

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Partnering for Progress: Code Fellows and The Alliance Empower Underserved Communities through Tech Education

By Mitchell Robertson on

In an exciting new collaboration, the Alliance for Economic Development of Oklahoma City and Code Fellows have partnered together to expand tech education and career opportunities for underserved communities in Oklahoma City. The partnership, which offers no-cost software and cybersecurity training, aims to bridge the gap and provide access to valuable education and job prospects in the fast-paced world of technology. Through this initiative, individuals from diverse backgrounds will have the chance to thrive and contribute to the thriving tech industry in Oklahoma City.

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Northeastern and Code Fellows Partner to Provide New Pathways to Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology

By Mitchell Robertson on

Code Fellows is partnering with Northeastern University College of Professional Studies to provide learners from any background a pathway to obtain their Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology.

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How to Accelerate Your Learning with Stacked Modules

By John Cokos on

Learn. More. Faster.

It’s a bold promise and one that can be fulfilled only when we are willing to not only challenge our assumptions about how we learn but abandon what we think has worked for us in the past. Get comfortable being uncomfortable and really accelerate your learning with an experience-based, stacked approach.

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Code Fellows Wins WTIA DEI Award

By Mitchell Robertson on

On November 4th WTIA hosted its first DEI Summit, commemorating the first year of WTIA’s intentional and focused efforts to eradicate systems of inequity in the tech sector. The event also marked the launch of WTIA’s DEI Awards, which recognized and honored organizations making outstanding progress toward achieving diversity, equity and inclusion wins for employees, clients, and stakeholders.

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Alumni Spotlight: Will’s Journey: From Homeless to Software Engineer

By Mitchell Robertson on

Meet Ulrich Wilfred Motchoffo (Will) – Will is a Code Fellows’ Alum and a resilient learner with an incredible story! Will’s journey into tech was not an easy one, in fact, it was far from it, as he faced challenge after challenge, but his persistence paid off.

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11 Of Our Favorite Tech Podcasts For 2021

By Dr. Robin S. Apparicio on

What is one thing that everyone in tech has in common? Lifelong learning. It is important to keep your finger on the pulse of what the pros are talking about. We need to always be pivoting, learning, and adapting. Thankfully there are brilliant people out there who are creating content that is innovative, informative but also funny, entertaining and inspiring.

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Memphis: More than the home of Great Food, Blues, Soul & Rock 'N' Roll

By Mitchell Robertson on

Memphis may be best known for its amazing food, blues, jazz, and rock ‘n’ roll, but it’s also home to a thriving community of leaders, influencers, innovators and change-makers.

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Build Your Own Home Cyber Range: Part 2

By David Lee on

In part 1 of this three-part blog series, we looked at how to get a home cyber range started in order to host a threat detection ecosystem via VirtualBox. We deployed a Dell Precision T3600 along with VirtualBox, a budget-friendly computer model selected to support additional CPU cores. Next up, we will need to establish remote connectivity to conveniently access the command line, the screen, and the file system in order to treat this computer like a true dedicated server.

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Powered by Code Fellows: Transforming Lives Through Tech Education

By Mitchell Robertson on

Building a strong and sustainable economy requires strategic partnerships, human and capital investment, and access to relevant training and education. These three important factors can provide continuous growth, prosperity, and inclusion that raises the standard of living for the entire community and ensures everyone has a chance to succeed.

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PivotTech: Nashville Partners Creating Access to Rewarding Careers

By Mitchell Robertson on

Nashville may be well known as the country music capital of the world, but it’s quickly transforming into an emerging tech hub. That is why we are proud to be partnering with PivotTech to bring tech education to underserved communities.

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Empowering Community Colleges for Economic Change

By Teri Hockett on

Community colleges across the United States are facing unprecedented challenges. Engaging students with relevant courses that help them achieve career goals in the tech industry is a difficult proposition, when faced with the trials of remote learning, constantly shifting industry demand, and fast-moving technological progress.

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Powering Jamaica's Digital Transformation

By Mitchell Robertson on

Code Fellows is proud to be powering the digital transformation of Jamaica through training individuals with the technical skills to start rewarding new careers and accelerate Jamaica’s digital economy!

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Walk-through: Selection Sort Algorithm

By Amanda Iverson on

How do you sort?

You are dealt a hand of 10 playing cards. What’s the first thing you do? Organize them. One of my typical strategies for quickly doing so goes like this if the suit doesn’t matter: Find the lowest value card and put it in the left-most spot in my hand. Then find the lowest of the remaining cards, and place it just to the right of the first card. Repeat, until all the cards are in order. This process is similar to how a computer might sort a list of values with the “selection sort” algorithm. This is just one of the dozens of popular approaches to organizing data, but it maps particularly well to how humans often attempt to sort things. Let’s take a look at how selection sort works!

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Value of Remote Working …. and Remote Learning

By Mitchell Robertson on

Remote work is here to stay. “WFH” is the new normal for companies large and small. Job seekers and companies with positions to fill are slowly realizing how much this opens up opportunities for finding the right match. This is why it’s so important to learn the skills to be a productive, well-balanced professional who can work remotely.

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A Half-Million Jobs in Cybersecurity - Here are the Five important things you need to know

By David Lee on

With more than half-million job opportunities in cybersecurity according to cyberseek.org, looking for an educational program that will get your foot in the door isn’t easy. Make sure to consider these five important topics when looking for your next cybersecurity program!

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In Celebration of Juneteenth

By Jeff Malek on

It is not a “day off” for me or our staff, it’s definitely a “day on”. Meaning, if we’ve learned anything in the last few weeks of 2020, it’s that 155 years later, collectively as a nation we haven’t said enough in support of anti-racism, we haven’t done enough in support of anti-racism, and we need to persist going forward, reminding each other that we have a lot of work ahead of us.

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Anti-racism: Being Non-Racist Is Not Enough

By Jeff Malek on

We remain committed to breaking down systemic barriers and ensuring all people are treated with respect and dignity. Privilege exists. Systemic racism exists. We are united with our staff, students, alumni, and partners in the fight against systemic racism and injustice.

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Leading the Way: How Code Fellows is Innovating Cyber Education

By David Lee on

How does Code Fellows all-new Ops sequence—that culminates in a certificate of Cybersecurity Engineering—set itself apart from other cyber education offerings? Let’s take a look!

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COVID-19: How to Thrive in This Time of Uncertainty

By Mitchell Robertson on

At Code Fellows, we are passionate about helping individuals transform their lives through education. We believe that it is critical to learn the skills that allow you to pursue your passion while also providing for you financially. Being able to work remote, means you not only have the ability to endure tough times like the ones we are facing now but also live where you want, work where you want, and live the life that you want.

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Learning to Code: 5 Paths to Becoming a Software Developer and How to Enhance Your Skills Along the Way - Part 4

By Heather Cherewaty on

Are you learning to code or looking to improve your technical skills? Join us for a 5 part blog series on the many paths to a career in Tech and how you can improve your skills, and your job prospects, along the way! Monthly, from September through January, we’ll be exploring various learning mediums and how to best leverage those resources for success. We’ll cover free online tutorials and courses, coding schools/bootcamps, CS degree programs, interview prep, and continuing education. You can find September’s blog on “The Self-guided Route” here, October’s blog on “The College Route” here, and November’s blog on “The Code School Route” here.

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Learning to Code: 5 Paths to Becoming a Software Developer and How to Enhance Your Skills Along the Way - Part 3

By Heather Cherewaty on

Are you learning to code or looking to improve your technical skills? Join us for a 5 part blog series on the many paths to a career in Tech and how you can improve your skills, and your job prospects, along the way! Monthly, from September through January, we’ll be exploring various learning mediums and how to best leverage those resources for success. We’ll cover free online tutorials and courses, coding schools/bootcamps, CS degree programs, interview prep, and continuing education. You can find September’s blog on “The Self-guided Route” here and October’s blog on “The College Route” here.

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Learning to Code: 5 Paths to Becoming a Software Developer and How to Enhance Your Skills Along the Way - Part 2

By Heather Cherewaty on

Are you learning to code or looking to improve your technical skills? Join us for a 5 part blog series on the many paths to a career in Tech and how you can improve your skills, and your job prospects, along the way! Monthly, from September through January, we’ll be exploring various learning mediums and how to best leverage those resources for success. We’ll cover free online tutorials and courses, coding schools/bootcamps, CS degree programs, interview prep, and continuing education. You can find September’s blog on “The Self-guided Route” here.

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Learning to Code: 5 Paths to Becoming a Software Developer and How to Enhance Your Skills Along the Way - Part I

By Heather Cherewaty on

Are you learning to code or looking to improve your technical skillset? Join us for a 5 part blog series on the many paths to a career in Tech and how you can improve your skills, and your job prospects, along the way! Monthly, from September through January, we’ll be exploring various learning mediums and how to best leverage those resources for success. We’ll cover free online tutorials and courses, coding schools/bootcamps, CS degree programs, interview prep, and continuing education.

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New Code 501 Course Announced: One-Day Class Offers Hands-On SQL Training

By Sarah Fischer on

Are you ready to take on advanced data problem solving? Step into the shoes of a data analyst and learn how to tackle interesting SQL problems with our new Code 501 course!

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The 2018 Gift Guide for Software Developers

By Sarah Fischer on

It’s here again! The time of year when we poll the devs in our lives to find out the hottest gifts that the developer in your life would love to find in their stocking.

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Give the Gift of Education

By Sarah Fischer on

This year, 128 people received scholarships to pursue life-changing opportunities in tech, in part because of the generosity of the alumni and companies who supported our Diversity Scholarship Fund. Let’s make it happen for even more individuals in 2019.

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4 Projects Sponsors, 8 Mentors, and 80 Devs Walk Into a Code School…

By Elizabeth Scutchfield on

Thank you to everyone who participated in our first Community Hack Night Initiative!

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Introducing the New Talent Portal!

By Elizabeth Scutchfield on

We’ve launched a new way for hiring managers and dev teams to find their next teammate!

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Join us for the 2nd Annual Veteran Tech Summit!

By Elizabeth Scutchfield on

Veterans, supporters, and members of Seattle’s tech industry, you are invited for our second annual Veteran Tech Summit on November 1, 2018!

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Money-Back Guarantees, Placement Stats, Starting Salaries, Oh My!

By Mitchell Robertson on

Here’s how to sort through the data and find the right school for you.

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6 Reasons for Pair Programming

By Allie Grampa on

Iterative loops. Code reviews. Fast feedback. Error checking and linting. These are software engineering practices that have proven to dramatically improve the quality of code developers produce. What if you can could get all of this, instantaneously, while typing code line by line and character by character? You can, with pair programming, a technique common to many agile work environments.

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People, Partners, Products: Seattle Orgs Win Big with Our Expanded Employer Services

By Elizabeth Scutchfield on

We hear it all too often: competition is tight for tech talent.

It’s time to get creative.

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How to Choose a Stack

By Sarah Fischer on

We get this question a lot: “How do I choose which Code 401 course to take?” Here’s how we answer.

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Meet Allie! From University STEM Professor to Code Fellows Instructor

By Sarah Fischer on

Meet Allie! She spent six years teaching in higher education before joining the team at Code Fellows. Read about her start in programming, how she empathizes with new coders, and why she loves helping people start new careers in tech.

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Help Raise $100K Towards Diversity Scholarships!

By Mitchell Robertson on

Since launching our Diversity Scholarship Fund in 2015, we’ve partnered with individuals and companies such as Expedia, Zillow, and Substantial to fund over $2.7M in scholarships.

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Cooking, Coding & Career Changes: A Chef’s Journey in Learning to Code

By Kayla Asay on

Hello! My name is Kayla Asay and I am a software engineer.

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For Charlottesville

By Jeff Malek on

It’s incredible how the appalling recent events in Charlottesville have resulted in an uprising of good will and kindred spirits around the world.

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I Can Do Things That Are Hard: How Learning to Code Changed My Life

By Jake Hawken on

Not too long ago, I wasn’t a programmer.

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Meet the Team: Mindy Mills, Admissions Advisor

By Sarah Fischer on

Meet Mindy! As a part of the admissions team at Code Fellows, she helps aspiring devs know if our program is right for them, and helps them get fully prepared for their first day of class.

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Diversity in Tech: How Diversity Partners are Making an Impact

By Mitchell Robertson on

For years, tech companies have been challenged to diversify their teams. We look to the data, using the demographics of tech giants like Google and Twitter to gauge how the entire industry is performing.

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5 Types of Non-Tech Companies That Need Software Developers

By Lauren Sauser on

Technology companies aren’t the only businesses that depend on coders, or pay them well. Both the public and private sectors benefit from the specialized support of software developers, and the opportunities for employment are diverse.

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3 Major Perks of Being a Software Developer

By Lauren Sauser on

In the demanding market where they work, U.S. software developers earn almost double the average American worker. Additionally, the United States Department of Labor has predicted that the number of American software engineers will grow by 17% between 2014 and 2024—dramatically faster than any other occupational segment.

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8 Tips Before You Hire from a Code School

By Mitchell Robertson on

With the recent rise in code schools and the number of new devs entering today’s tech market, how can you be sure the grad you’re about to hire is the kind of quality you need for your team? Here are 8 tips to make sure you’re hiring the best.

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TechHire Will Change the Game

By Mitchell Robertson on

On Monday, President Obama announced the launch of TechHire, an ambitious employment initiative that will bring together government agencies, businesses, and non-profits to provide technology education and training opportunities to all Americans.

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Why Code Fellows Will Be Going Strong in 50 Years

By Mitchell Robertson on

Code schools went mainstream in 2014, and all signs point to a bright future. Here’s why:

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Student project harnesses brain power to fly AR Drone

By Sarah Fischer on

Before graduating from their Development Accelerator, students complete and present a final project. Robert, a JavaScript student, brought in an idea that involved an AR Drone 2.0, Mindflex Duel headsets, and an Internet connection. He teamed up with two other students and a TA to get his project—quite literally—off the ground.

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Code Fellows is hiring instructors for local teams across the USA

By Mitchell Robertson on

Are you an experienced web/mobile developer with a passion for teaching? If so, we’d love to talk to you.

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