It had been quite some time since someone in Orange County heard the words LearningFuze Demo Day spoken out loud in the same sentence. If the archives are correct the last Demo Day was held around August of 2015. Looking back it’s amazing to see how far those alumni have come since presenting to employers in those early days of the program. Over the past 4 years LearningFuze has grown to include a 6,000 sq foot facility, 15 staff members,…
After hiring six graduates from LearningFuze coding bootcamp in Irvine, California, BeSmartee co-founder Veronica Nguyen plans to hire more! Veronica tells us what she is looking for in new hires at the B2B FinTech company, how LearningFuze refers their new grads to companies, and how employees are mentored on the job. She also predicts the career trajectory of her new hires, and gives some advice for other employers thinking of hiring coding bootcamp graduates! Check out the Q & A featured in CourseReport here.
How To Determine If A Coding Bootcamp Is Worth The Cost Evaluating whether a program is the right one starts with evaluating the quality of the program. Liz Eggleston from CourseReport recently wrote an interesting blog on this topic including the following graphic. There are several factors that we at LearningFuze believe are important to take into consideration as well in making the right decision for your education and your eventual career as a developer. Once you have determined that…
LearningFuze Coding Bootcamp Continues to Build a Super Team by TJ Kinion In sports there are super teams such as the Warriors in the NBA; the Yankees, Dodgers, Cubs, and Red Sox in the MLB; and clubs like Barcelona, Real Madrid, and Chelsea in soccer (or futbol). Super teams are made up of some of the best players in the world and can sometimes be considered unfair by smaller market teams, but given the quality of their offerings they often…
Steffany’s 10 years in IT and project management gave her a taste of the coding world – enough that she started teaching herself to code. She eventually enrolled in LearningFuze’s 12-week full-time immersive bootcamp in Irvine, California to launch a career in front end development! Steffany tells us about her experience learning React alongside students with varied backgrounds, how LearningFuze directly helped her with her job search, and how she’s enjoying building projects in React at TensorIoT! Q&A What was your background prior to…
By: TJ Kinion- Networking – the act of meeting with other people for personal or business reasons. We’ve all heard of networking, many of us have been to events, and people constantly talk about the benefits of it yet for some reason very few people actually go out and do it. Below we’ll cover the basics as well as dive into some tips that we use at LearningFuze to help students get the most out of their networking events. This…
Coding bootcamp: Your LinkedIn Profile is more important than you thought! It would be a lie if we [LearningFuze] told you that getting a job after a bootcamp is easy. A quick google search of “coding bootcamp” brings up You Tube videos, Medium posts, and even news reports of how difficult a post-bootcamp job search can be. The issue with this is that many programs helping people learn to code take an old school approach to the job search process….
Pursuing a passion that eventually will become a career is an exciting journey. As a web development training school, we thrive on that passion as we love to work with enthusiastic students to help them reach their technical and career goals. There is really nothing more rewarding than seeing the light bulb go on with a student who is hungry to learn! A coding technical assessment provides a baseline of both coding knowledge and passion. If you like to solve…
Students have been asking for a part-time coding program for some time now, and we are proud announce that it is officially launched! We are nearing our 5th anniversary as a web development and coding bootcamp. We are proud and humbled by the school’s success and the amazing students who have completed the program. We started this journey as one of a few coding schools of its kind in Southern California and the first in Orange County. Over the years…
We’ve interviewed hundreds of prospective students, and had the privilege to work with many coding bootcamp graduates. We’ve compiled a brief list of the top fears some of our students have shared and how they have navigated through them to success. 1) Am I really smart enough? It’s all about commitment, persistence and passion. If you like to problem solve & build things then coding might be something you’d enjoy. Give yourself permission to grow and try something new….