Before you committed to a bootcamp, chances are you researched different options online. Maybe you read through reviews on a site like SwitchUp, browsed posts on Medium, or even reached out to alumni through social media. Reviews and feedback are extremely important for future students, thanks to an ever-growing number...
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Chances are, at some point in your career, you’ve wondered if the career you’ve chosen (or found yourself in) is the right one for you. If you’ve thought about a career change, don’t panic! It’s perfectly normal to change careers from time to time; in fact, people change jobs 12...
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Since founding The Software Guild in 2013, coding has remained a hot topic. There is a lot of demand, career prospects are good, and there has been plenty of media attention around the topic. The upshot of this is that people who are looking for coding resources to get started...
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Their accomplishments may be seldom recognized, and throughout history, they have had to fight for their achievements in the first place. Even today, their prominence in tech is not what it should be. Yet there are many women in technology who have changed the world. We think these women deserve...
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Increased Interaction: How Flipped Instruction Works You may or may not have heard the term “flipped classroom.” At The Software Guild, we have chosen to incorporate the flipped instruction model. So we thought we should explain the basic details of what it is and why it works for our coding...
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“Everyone should learn to code.” It’s a popular thing to say in the media, but I don’t really agree with such a blanket statement. Not everyone will work in jobs that benefit from being able to code. Not everyone even likes to write code. In fact, most people don’t, and...
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You’re nearing the end of your time as an apprentice with The Software Guild, and you’re ready to move on to your exciting new career. Where do you start? Before you can discuss your qualifications with employers or send your qualifications to businesses, you need to create an easy-to-read resume...
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If you’ve read our Geek Hierarchy post, you’ll know a little bit about the difference between front end vs back end in the world of software development. As Eric Wise, Software Guild’s founder and Chief Academic Officer, puts it, “Front-end portions of the application rely on the back end to...
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When I look back on my journey founding The Software Guild in 2013, one thing that has stuck with me is the uphill battle my team and I faced when it came to explaining what a coding bootcamp was and convincing early adopters that this education model was effective, as...
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Each year since 2011, Stack Overflow, a provider of some of the largest technical Q&A sites on the internet, does a survey of its members. More than 64,000 developers participated in the survey this year, and here at The Software Guild, we are always fascinated by the data that emerges....
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