April 20, 2015

How To Be A Better Junior Developer (Video)

New developer from a non-CS background? What about someone you mentor? Hackbright alumna and New Relic engineer Katherine Wu shares junior developers focus on building technical […]
April 17, 2015

Meet Intro to Programming Course Instructor Rachel Walker! She’s on a Mission to Show That Programming is FUN

Rachel Walker is the instructor of Hackbright Academy’s Intro to Programming course for complete beginners. She was recently featured in The Root’s list of 10 amazing black women […]
April 16, 2015

VIDEO: The Move to Becoming a Software Engineer – Hackbright Graduates Share Their Journey!

With the Summer Software Engineering Fellowship deadline approaching on April 30th (less than two weeks left to apply!), we wanted to show a video of our graduates who […]
April 14, 2015

6 Things Parents Can Do RIGHT NOW To Create Future Innovators & Leaders

Hackbright Academy serves post baccalaureate diverse individuals learning to code and become software engineers, but what about starting gender equality in tech early? Here are some […]
April 10, 2015

Hairstylist Takes Hackbright’s Intro to Programming Course and Builds an Awesome Language Processing App!

Meet Valeria – Styling hair by day, learning to code by night. Valeria (pictured on the right) recently completed Hackbright’s Intro to Programming course and despite having no coding […]
April 10, 2015

Hairstylist takes Hackbright’s Intro to Programming course and builds an awesome language processing app 10 weeks later

Meet Valeria – Styling hair by day, learning to code by night. Valeria (pictured on the right) recently completed Hackbright’s Intro to Programming course and despite having no coding […]
April 10, 2015

Hairstylist Takes Hackbright’s Intro to Programming Course and Builds an Awesome Language Processing App!

Meet Valeria – Styling hair by day, learning to code by night. Valeria (pictured on the right) recently completed Hackbright’s Intro to Programming course and despite having no coding […]
April 10, 2015

Hairstylist takes Hackbright’s Intro to Programming course and builds an awesome language processing app 10 weeks later

Meet Valeria – Styling hair by day, learning to code by night. Valeria (pictured on the right) recently completed Hackbright’s Intro to Programming course and despite having no coding […]
April 7, 2015

Fastly Sales Engineer And Hackbright Alumna Cassandra Dixon Shares Advice

Hackbright alumna Cassandra Dixon graduated from Wesleyan University in 2004 with a math degree. “Being a Sales Engineer requires a lot of work, but it also […]
March 27, 2015

Celebrate Hackbright Academy’s Winter 2015 graduating class of software engineers at Dinner & Demo Night!

Let’s celebrate! We’re excited to introduce another group of bold, inspiring and brilliant software engineers to the tech world. Join us at Dinner & Demo Night next Tuesday, March 31, […]
March 18, 2015

How to Make Smart Tradeoffs When Developing Software Products

Facebook’s former Director of Engineering Jocelyn Goldfein recently sat down with Femgineer, an education resource for tech professionals, to discuss how to prioritize competing goals when creating products. […]
March 10, 2015

Hackbright Academy Forms Trade Association with Other Industry Leaders To Set New Education Standards

In support of the White House and President Obama’s TechHire initiative, the New Economy Skills Training Association (NESTA) launched as a new trade organization – a […]
March 9, 2015

Hackbright Academy Partners with White House to Launch TechHire Initiative

We’re thrilled to announce that Hackbright Academy is officially partnering with the White House for President Obama’s launch of TechHire. The new program is a bold public-private initiative […]
February 7, 2015

Security Engineering Talks Hosted At NCC Group

By Angie Chang (VP Strategic Partnerships, Hackbright Academy) Thanks to NCC Group (home of iSEC Partners and Domain Services) in downtown San Francisco for hosting Hackbright […]
February 4, 2015

40 Projects in 4 Weeks

At Hackbright Academy, we devote 4 weeks of the Engineering Fellowship to an independent project. Hackbright is proud to present all 40 projects of the Fall […]
February 4, 2015

Welcome Hackbright Alumna Anna Akullian, Junior Instructor For Hackbright Academy’s New Part-Time Courses!

From “how to detect female-friendliness in a company” to “do the hardest thing” — 12 female software engineers shared their advice on learning to code and […]