The 8th top city in the world for technology, the country’s fastest-growing major metro, and the #1 place to live — Austin, Texas, continues to be on the precipice of job growth and new opportunities. New Kid on the Block or Seasoned Veteran? The city isn’t a rookie when it comes to global innovation and…
When he was directing the educational program at a Texas correctional center, Robert Deckard assumed he had the perfect job for himself: one that benefited society and utilized a major professional talent—teaching. Then one day—after thinking about a world going quickly digital—Bob googled online computer science degrees. He browsed through dozens of courses and noticed that many…
Many organizations today depend heavily on data regarding their customers, clients, products, operations, and market. There is now an unprecedented shift in how data is accelerating business transformation, and with that we see more and more organizations requiring talented and qualified professionals who can extract information, analytics, and insights from complex data. But what skills…
By Camden Kirkland My name is Ray and I’m partnering with UT Austin to find passionate software developers to help students learn code and change lives. It sounds cliche (I know) but providing students with high in-demand skills WILL change their lives. Back in 2016, I had no idea how profound an effect these two…
Silver Ehiwario’s new career started with one wish: “I want to be creative.” Unfortunately, with a BS in engineering from Nigeria and a master’s in chemical engineering from Colorado, Silver was on a career path that wasn’t conducive to her passions. It was only when her family relocated to Houston—an oil hub—that Silver had a sudden…
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…
By Eric Scott I never set out to be a boot camp instructor. I had been working in the ed tech industry for seven years, had helped mentor interns, and even had assisted a few friends going through boot camps themselves. Then one day my HVAC broke, and that same week I got a message…
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,…
