You’re interested in an online boot camp—but you first want to know how it actually works. What can you expect from the online format? If you’re just discovering our boot camps, you likely have many questions that you’d like the answers to before taking the next step. It is important to make an informed decision…
Many of today’s leading employers are beginning to embrace new models of education, including online learning. As a result, we see a number of employers hiring online boot camp s due to their work ethic and combination of hard skills (technical knowledge) and soft skills (adaptability, collaboration, creativity, etc.). Because of the fast-paced nature of…
As the unprecedented shift towards online learning continues to grow, more s are seeking out the combination of skills development and flexibility offered through an online boot camp education. Today it is more possible than ever to break into fields such as web development, financial technology, UX/UI, cybersecurity, and digital marketing through the help of…
Updated as of March 17, 2020 For the health and safety of our students, in cooperation with UC San Diego Extension, current UC San Diego Extension Boot Camp classes will move to virtual class sessions. To ensure a seamless transition, we’re providing extra training to all active instructional staff on how to effectively lead classes…
Early on in his career, Steven Dytewski interned as an electronic technician. While in this role, he asked one of the senior engineers at the company for some advice on what career path to pursue. This mentor suggested software development. However, at the time, Steven wasn’t that interested in programming—and chose to ignore this suggestion. A year…
Sheetal Bangalore Srikumar considers herself a lifelong learner. Her inquiring mind has always guided her decisions, and it is what eventually drew her toward a life-changing boot camp experience. For many years prior to boot camp, Sheetal worked as a quality assurance and automation engineer. She was quite content with her work manually testing software and…
Saba Borjian came into the Coding Boot Camp at UC San Diego with no shortage of knowledge about the tech industry, having previously worked as a software development engineer. However, she was unsatisfied with the kind of work she was doing and wanted to learn more of the ins and outs of the industry. “I wanted to get…
The path to what you want isn’t always clear-cut—a fact Tony Phelps knows well. For Tony, the journey to his current role was multi-pronged. With his career and personal interests spanning ecology, music, technology, and sales, it’s as if Tony was pulled inexorably toward one clear field: data science. His passions would coalesce at The Data…
When Kevin Lee landed a job in biotech right out of college, he was excited. He’d worked in the field as a researcher before graduation and had high hopes for his career. But after five years in the lab, Kevin was slowly learning that his “dream” job wasn’t exactly what he expected. “I realized after just a…
Melissa Nguyen wasn’t sure she wanted to learn how to code while at school, despite pursuing research in some complex technical areas including ultrasound technology. It was only after she graduated from UC San Diego with a degree in chemical engineering last December, that Nguyen decided she was ready to stretch her mind in a new direction…
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