July 30, 2013
We invited Pat Poels, Vice President of Engineering at Eventbrite, to Hackbright Academy to speak to the current class. Eventbrite has hired three Hackbright engineering fellows […]
July 30, 2013
By Aimee Morgan (Engineering Fellow, Hackbright Academy – summer 2013 class) Last week was the much anticipated start of full time work on our individual projects. […]
July 29, 2013
“I applied, got in, paid tuition, quit my job, and dived into Hackbright head first with little prep or knowledge. I’m just past the halfway point […]
July 24, 2013
Michelle Sun is a former investment banker that became an entrepreneur, and is now working as a software engineer. She is currently at Buffer working on […]
July 23, 2013
Before her current software developer incarnation, Lindsay was a traveler, a research biologist and an illustrator. She is still all of those things to varying degrees […]
July 23, 2013
Jasmine studied International Relations and Economics at UPenn, working in investment banking and consulting after graduation. She always found herself perpetually slightly restless and itching to […]
July 22, 2013
I’d applied to a number of different programs, but had turned down a few positions before even submitting my application to Hackbright. In other words, I […]
July 22, 2013
(Alternate subtitle: “The Week of ‘Surely No One Will Notice that I Wore the Same Pair of Jeans Multiple Times This Week.'”) By Aimee Morgan (Engineering […]
July 19, 2013
Facebook software engineer Emily Gasca and former Hackbright Academy student talked to the students about interviewing. Before attending Hackbright Academy, Emily earned her bachelor’s in Cognitive […]
July 17, 2013
O hai! We finally made it to the web development section of the class. Actually, that was over a week ago, and I’ve had this half-finished […]
July 16, 2013
Shilpa Dalmia is the CTO and co-founder of ActivityHero, a 500 Startups-backed company in San Jose. She is a mompreneneur and shares her advice from a […]
July 12, 2013
When I initially became interested in programming, my first foray into the field was reading personal tech blogs written by my followers on Twitter. By Katherine […]
July 10, 2013
I’ve spent the last 2-3 years hemming and hawing about wanting to learn how to be a software engineer. I’d say confidence was the biggest thing […]
July 3, 2013
This week, students in the summer 2013 session of Hackbright Academy meet engineers at Square over food and drink, learning about the stack and hearing from […]
July 2, 2013
Zed Shaw is the author of “Learn Python the Hard Way”, an introduction to the language intended for beginning programmers, as well as a number of […]
July 2, 2013
Kimber started a company with friends in college. The startup, Increo Solutions, was acquired by Box in 2009. With four years of work experience under her […]