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We're Not a Bootcamp

We're Not a Bootcamp

We're Something Unique, and Uniquely Effective

Jul 31, 2018

Launch School Stories

Mastery-Based Learning

From Bootcamp to Mastery: A Five Year Journey

“Just in Time” Learning

So you want to be a software engineer? (Part 1 of 4)

The Dangers of Learning Just Enough

Latest

Our New 2021 Salaries Page

Our New 2021 Salaries Page

Update: we recorded a podcast episode about this article that you might want to listen to after reading this article.

Dec 12, 2022

Why I Ran Out of Time Taking Launch School’s RB109 Written Assessment (and what I’m changing so it…

Why I Ran Out of Time Taking Launch School’s RB109 Written Assessment (and what I’m changing so it…

(and what I’m changing so it doesn’t happen again)

Oct 28, 2022

You’re Invited to Join Launch School’s Study Tips Workshop

You’re Invited to Join Launch School’s Study Tips Workshop

Good news! We’ve decided to re-run the Programming Essentials Workshops, which we first ran a few weeks ago. Workshops include:

Oct 18, 2022

Upgrade Your Learning with 3 Programming Workshops

Upgrade Your Learning with 3 Programming Workshops

Welcome to the final week of the Programming Essentials Workshops! This week you’ll be learning the ultimate skill in any Programmers…

Oct 11, 2022

3 New Programming Workshops to Speed Up Your Learning

3 New Programming Workshops to Speed Up Your Learning

(The below workshops are now closed. For the newest set of workshops please check out the latest blog post).

Oct 4, 2022

Podcast S4E6: Programming Essentials Workshops Q&A and Catchup with Kelvin

In this episode Chris and Karis conduct a Q&A session about Launch School’s new Programming Essentials Workshops, what they are why new…

Sep 28, 2022

Take the Struggle Out of Learning to Program with 3 New Workshops

Take the Struggle Out of Learning to Program with 3 New Workshops

(The below workshops are now closed. For the newest set of workshops please check out the latest blog post).

Sep 27, 2022

Weekly Update: 3 New Programming Essentials Workshops

Weekly Update: 3 New Programming Essentials Workshops

(The below workshops are now closed. For the newest set of workshops please check out the latest blog post)

Sep 20, 2022

New Topics: Programming Essentials Workshops Week 2

New Topics: Programming Essentials Workshops Week 2

(The below workshops are now closed. For the newest set of workshops please check out the latest blog post)

Sep 11, 2022

Introducing our Programming Essentials Workshops — now free!

Introducing our Programming Essentials Workshops — now free!

We have just announced a brand new set of free programming workshops. If you’re a beginning programmer, our Programming Essentials…

Sep 6, 2022

Ruby to JavaScript

Ruby to JavaScript

A short guide for Rubyists starting JS210

Spencer Wightman

Aug 25, 2022

Podcast S4E5: Transforming at Launch School

In this episode Chris and Karis discuss a recent inspirational talk given by Core graduate student Jake. Chris answers some additional…

Aug 22, 2022

PEDAC, the Hero’s Journey, and Wishing upon an Algorithm

PEDAC, the Hero’s Journey, and Wishing upon an Algorithm

Dividing and conquering your way through a problem

Brenno Kaneyasu

Jul 31, 2022

Podcast S4E4: Capstone Salaries, Recession & The Younger Students of Launch School

In this episode Chris discusses the latest 2021 Capstone salaries, and provides some advice for students that have concerns about the…

Jul 19, 2022

What Century Is After Midnight?

What Century Is After Midnight?

Lowering frustration by changing perspective towards small problems

Jun 23, 2022

Part-Time to Full-Time Study

Part-Time to Full-Time Study

How I planned the transition.

Jun 21, 2022

Podcast S4E3: The Story of Launch School

In this episode Launch School Student Felicia interviews Chris as he shares the origin story of how Launch School came to be. He also…

May 6, 2022

Podcast S4E2

This episode Karis and Chris discuss the all the latest Launch School interviews and presentations. Karis also catches up with the co-host…

Apr 14, 2022

Video Series: The Lifecycle of an HTTP Message

Video Series: The Lifecycle of an HTTP Message

The Internet is a complex system. It’s impossible to capture even a small proportion of the aspects of network communication in one video…

Mar 27, 2022

Podcast S4E1: Welcome to Season 4!

This season we kick off our first episode by introducing Launch Schools new podcast format and new co-host Karis. Together they discuss the…

Mar 22, 2022

Bash Plumbing

If your working directory contains

Mar 10, 2022

Best Practices: RB101 through RB139

Best Practices: RB101 through RB139

Community, Notes & PEDAC, Assessments

Spencer Wightman

Feb 15, 2022

Lessons From the First Half of Core

Rethinking the learning process

Chelsea Saunders

Feb 11, 2022

We are Made of Stories

We are Made of Stories

In one of the communication theories I’ve read about, there’s this technique called Modeling. Simply speaking, it’s a method that allows…

Katarina Rosiak

Jan 26, 2022

A Nightmare on Bug Street

A Nightmare on Bug Street

How to deal with bugs during a coding interview - or better - how to not get them at all.

Katarina Rosiak

Jan 4, 2022

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