There is no substitute for real! Real-world coding experience is the only experience that matters. If you get that experience, you win. If you don’t, you’ll be left in the dust with no chance of catching up. Unfortunately, the collective coding education world hasn’t caught up to the fact that real-world coding experience is the…
Marco Morawec
Choosing the right coding bootcamp can be hard; even if you’ve read our definitive guide to choosing an online coding bootcamp, you still have to make a final choice and pull the trigger. Tate Price, one of our recent Firehose Project graduates, had to make that same decision several months ago. After Tate and I jumped…
Marco Morawec
I started my first job as a developer right after going through theFirehoseProject bootcamp and was lucky to be able to observe a team of really experienced professionals at my new company. In thinking about what makes a good developer, I came to the conclusion that Firehose taught me just about everything a good developer…
Ilya Krasnov
You may have come across Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, AngularJS, JavaScript, and perhaps the “MEAN” stack — MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, NodeJS — in your research of the different programming technologies. Newcomers will often gravitate towards learning only JavaScript — a single programming language — but it’s often mistaken as a shortcut to becoming a full-stack…
Ken Mazaika
You can learn how to code and build real world applications through three different ways. Traditionally, you could enroll in a 4-year university degree in computer science and probably be well on your way to becoming a good developer. You could also take the self-learners route and figure out everything on your own and teach…
Marco Morawec
Making the decision of learning how to code and committing to an online coding bootcamp is a big one. At the same time it is very difficult to hear first-hand experiences from coding bootcamp graduates. But not anymore! The fantastic Liz from CourseReport, gathered the brightest students from the best online coding bootcamps to ask…
Marco Morawec