Important Updates to our Job Placement Program
Here’s the short story (full details are below) In order to comply with state licensing requirements, we are making updates to our job placement program in some states. This is primarily a difference...
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Rate of Learning
We get asked often what the ROI (Return on Investment) will be for our Code Academy courses and it’s entirely the wrong question to ask because there’s really no quantifiable way for us to know, for...
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The Long Game
It still floors me every time I consider the amount of work that we ask our students in our Code Schools to execute and the sheer intensity that they experience over the course of 12 weeks. What’s...
View ArticleWhy We Don’t Offer Night Classes
One of the questions we hear most often when we’re talking to students interested in our program is the following: Why don’t you offer night classes? The question makes sense and is legitimate, without...
View ArticleA Musical Score for The Iron Yard? Yes!
Hi! My name’s Ryan Poplin. I’ve arranged and recorded a piano piece that conveys my experiences at The Iron Yard Academy. Give it a listen here:...
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Durham: We’re Coming and We’re Partnering with SmashingBoxes!
And we’re partnering with the premier web and mobile development companies in the Southeast, SmashingBoxes, to make it all happen! You see, it just made too much sense for us to join with a local...
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Front-End or Back-End?
Business in the front… A very common (and worthwhile!) question that we get often from our potential students is regarding the technology tracks and which one they should take and consider. There is no...
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Course Report Interview with Academy Alumnus Andy Flack
Andy, saving the day one line of JavaScript at a time. This interview was originally posted on the Course Report blog. Andy Flack is a classic zero-to-sixty student…with a twist. When Andy started at...
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What I Would Do with $19 Billion Dollars…
The dust has not even begun to settle on the incredible news of Facebook’s most recent acquisition of WhatsApp, a mobile messaging service that has made it’s two co-founders billionaires many times...
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Winning at the Nonsensical
I’m really crushing on Chris Dixon right now and the above talk that he did at a recent event where he shared some thoughts on how great VC investments typically engage with ideas that seem stupid...
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Need a Technical Cofounder? Become One!
There is a growing need for more technical cofounders for new ventures and startups and it’s only going to get worse as the gap between those who can and those who are available widens. Even for myself...
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Student Story: Allison Miller
Today FastCompany published an article about The Iron Yard Academy1 and highlighted one of our graduates, Alison Miller2 Don’t forget to check out the incredible career timeline. The mention was...
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If Walls Could Talk
There are many ways to judge company culture, from the general work environment to the language used, from the design of the space to what employees discuss off the clock. Measures abound, and so do...
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Progress Report: The Iron Yard Academy’s First Class
We’re nearing the end of our first Front End Engineering course, and it’s been an amazing experience. Halfway through the course we talked to both students and guest lecturers to see what they had to...
View ArticleWhat We Learned Starting an Intensive Design Class
This is a post from Marco Suarez explaining what we’ve learned on the journey of starting an intensive design school. There is a gap that is widening between the education students are receiving and...
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The Gap (or Why We Started a Design Course)
From our Product Design instructor, Marco: Education is a hot topic. Does the value of a diploma out weight the ever-rising cost of tuition? I think the answer is overwhelmingly yes for some careers....
View ArticleProgress Report: The Iron Yard Academy’s First Class
We’re nearing the end of our first Front End Engineering course, and it’s been an amazing experience. Halfway through the course we talked to both students and guest lecturers to see what they had to...
View ArticleWhat We Learned Starting an Intensive Design Class
This is a post from Marco Suarez explaining what we’ve learned on the journey of starting an intensive design school. There is a gap that is widening between the education students are receiving and...
View ArticleThe Gap (or Why We Started a Design Course)
From our Product Design instructor, Marco: Education is a hot topic. Does the value of a diploma out weight the ever-rising cost of tuition? I think the answer is overwhelmingly yes for some careers....
View ArticleThe Iron Yard Academy: Front End Engineering Class Applications are OPEN
For the last month we’ve been working on a project called The Iron Yard Academy, and we’re excited to announce that applications are open for our Front End Engineering class. What is this Iron Yard...
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