There is such a thing as the opposite of an aspirational model
There are literally hundreds of articles out there on how to become the sort of developer you want to be. But what about the developer you don’t want to become? …
Five common milestones from newbie to employable programmer
The time it takes to learn to code can vary wildly from one person to another. Our bootcamps teach the trade in 15 intensive weeks, but someone with a more casual approach could easily take a couple of years. …
What is a sentence the person teaching you to code doesn’t want to hear? I gathered a few of our instructors to find out.
Coding instructors are usually patient, affable people used to handling all sorts of questions with a smile. …
A look at the facts and numbers
I occasionally hear the odd person in the tech industry grumbling that the quality of software developers is “in decline”, or expressing a complaint along the lines of, “it’s getting harder and harder these days to find the good developers”.
How much of…
Completing a coding challenge with an interviewer breathing down your neck can be intimidating, but there are things you can do to prepare yourself.
The world of coding isn’t kind when it comes to interviews. While in many fields of employment you can rely on just flair and persuasion to…
Imogen Drews went from teaching English in schools to a job as Frontend Developer for a cutting-edge tech firm. This is how she did it.
On a sultry South African autumn of 2017, research intern Imogen Drews closed the script of the sexist beer ad she’d been given, and in…
WBS CODING SCHOOL graduate Kenechukwu Okoye used to study Biochemistry and Microbiology at university. Having switched to a career in coding, he now has advice for those in the sciences.
Kenechukwu Okoye — Kene to his friends — has some fairly straightforward advice for any young person currently studying the…
In my mind there is a little tally counter that keeps track of how many days I’ve gone without coming across the same question:
Why should I pay to study coding, if I can learn it by myself for free?
And if you know anything about the educational side of…
Senior developers are supposed to be patient with their juniors. If they lose their temper, it’s probably going to be for one of these reasons.
A few weeks ago I asked one of the software engineers I work with if he’d ever lost his temper with a junior developer. “Not…
Learning by working should not be optional for a programmer. And it should not come at the expense of your free time.
Working in a coding school, there is a phrase I sometimes hear which I am never entirely sure how to respond to: “I am too busy with work…
