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The Big Switch: How the Pandemic Brought This Producer From TV to Tech
Eight days before her graduate school tuition was due, Briana daMota decided to start working in entertainment. “My mother almost didn’t forgive me for that,”…
Clarity, Community, and Confidence: How The Coding Boot Camp at UCLA Extension Helped This New Web Developer Excel
Nancy Hinojos traces the beginning of her tech journey back to consulting. While working at Deloitte, she started using data visualization tools like Tableau and…
How Aysen Unlu Secured a Full-Time Job During COVID-19 — With a Client She Worked for During the Coding Boot Camp
Aysen Unlu’s instructor at The Coding Boot Camp at UCLA Extension encouraged students to find real clients for class projects. Despite having limited coding skills, Aysen and…
How Persistence and The Coding Boot Camp at UCLA Extension Helped Stephanie Aurelio Find Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic
After working as a librarian for several years, Stephanie Aurelio was ready for a new challenge. When choosing her next move, she thought back to an early…
How the Coding Boot Camp Helped Alvin Ng Get Out of the Job Pipeline — and Into the Data Pipeline
Two years into his undergraduate accounting program, Alvin Ng took a computer science elective. Little did he know he was about to find his true passion. “It…
5 Lessons Michelle Sokolov Learned After a Last-Minute Decision to Join the Coding Boot Camp
Michelle Sokolov made the decision to enroll in The Coding Boot Camp at UCLA Extension on a whim. She had graduated from college with a degree in communications,…
10 Tips for Effective Online Learning
Thanks to the many advancements in modern technology, an online education has become more accessible than ever before, allowing learners to receive the same high-quality…
10 Effective Job Search Strategies
After selling the tech start-up he co-founded, Charles Gedeon wondered what to tackle next. While handling operations at his company, he’d always been fascinated by…
Financial Options: How to Pay for Your Boot Camp Education
Today it is possible to learn the critical skills for a high-tech career through the help of a boot camp. With a wide range of…
After Traveling the World as a Flight Attendant, Keyanna Xu Landed in a New Software Development Career
When Keyanna Xu completed her undergraduate degree in international finance, she was immediately hit with a travel bug. Unsure of what career path to follow, and struck…