By Robert Delfs You don’t have to be a philosopher to understand the importance of the fancy-sounding concept of epistemology. Epistemology is the branch of knowledge that seeks to separate fact from opinion, theory from conjecture. It is how I as an instructor try to encourage my students to think every time I step into…
As the only marketer at her company, Olga Levina did it all: social media, design, print, you name it. When her employer asked her to build websites on WordPress and Wix, Olga taught herself how—and realized she loved it. “I started reading about SEO, UI design, and how to make a website popular, and it was all…
As the market for coding and web development continues to grow, more traditional schools are now entering the online coding boot camp market. Offering a coding boot camp allows these institutions to enter the emerging market and meet its growing demand. It is now possible to become a full-stack developer, coding professional, or a skilled…
JavaScript is a multi-paradigm programming language used to create and control the content of a website. Simply put – JavaScript is the language of the web. It utilizes event-driven, functional, and imperative programming styles. At the early stage, JavaScript was used only for client-side programming. However, today JavaScript is used as a server-side programming language…
PHP and Node.js are two of the most commonly used server-side platforms. Despite their shared popularity among developers, there are many significant differences between both of these leading back-end technologies. Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine. The language was created to build scalable network applications. The platform involves an event-driven,…
Many of today’s leading employers are beginning to embrace new models of education, including online learning. We see a number of employers hiring online coding boot camp graduates due to their work ethic and combination of hard skills (technical knowledge) and soft skills (adaptability, collaboration, creativity). Because of the nature of a fast-paced online boot…
A natural question that comes up as students are considering coding boot camps is, “are online coding boot camps worth it?”. To put it into perspective, boot camp graduates have continued to have strong career prospects, often with competitive salaries. Additionally, according to the *U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, “employment of web developers is expected…
On February 11, Andres Gonzalez entered a classroom just as he had every day for the past 18 years. The difference? For the first time, he was a professor, not a student—and the class was in a prison. Andres just started an exciting—and inspiring—new position teaching computer technology to inmates at the Arizona Department of Corrections. And…
