6 Simple Ways To Successfully Switch Careers

Lisa Blog, Careers, Learn to build, networking, Success Story

Changing careers isn’t easy. After all, your job is not just a little thing; it is a major part of your life. Yet, as you grow older, something happens within you. One day you wake up and suddenly the job that you have been doing all these years is no longer interesting or even acceptable. Like a restless newbie, you start asking yourself existential questions: “Why am I doing all of this? What is my purpose here? Is this really all there is?” There can be many factors to this …

What others are saying…

Lisa Alumni, Android, Blog, Individualized Learning, iOS, Learn to build, New apps, Student Apps, Success Story

 Success stories from our grads Paola Mata, iOS Developer, BuzzFeed "The iOS Bootcamp at TurnToTech is a thorough and challenging introduction to the fundamentals of iOS programming. Unlike other bootcamp courses, this one is entirely project-based. You’re building apps from Week 1 that increase in complexity over time, but they are broken down in a way that makes concepts easier to grasp. You will be amazed by how much progress you make in just 6 weeks.” Erica Correa, XO Group "TurnToTech has frequent computer science lectures, and every other Friday ...
Learn to Code at TurnToTech

Personalized Learning in a Bootcamp Structure: Learn to Code at TurnToTech.

Lisa Android, Blog, Individualized Learning, iOS, Learn to build, New apps, Success Story

 What makes TurnToTech different from other coding schools? Just take a look at our new and improved tagline:  Personalized Learning in a Bootcamp Structure. Learn to code at TurnToTech. TurnToTech is learner-focused: Full-time students work at their own speed and move on to the next assignment when they and their instructor agree to advance. This grants students the opportunities to fully understand and apply core concepts, complete hands-on assignments, and fully develop programming skills with confidence. We at TurnToTech provide consistency, structure, and an individualized learning process for each student ...

Offering financial solutions so you can take an iOS or Android course!

Lisa Blog, iOS, Learn to build, New apps

If you want to take one of our full-time courses at TurnToTech but money is an issue that’s holding you back… Skills Fund is here to help! Skills Fund is a lending company that has partnered with TurnToTech to help students pay for tuition and cost of living while taking the course. Skills Fund is a company dedicated to lending only to bootcamp students They believe that students will benefit from having access to high-quality skills education and have developed options for financing solutions. According to their mission, they “pull upon extensive expertise to create …

Latest Meetup: Intro to iOS Development, Part of our DIY Series; Build an iOS App in 3 Hours

Lisa Blog, iOS, Learn to build, New apps

If you ask the Magic 8 ball “Can I Build an App in 3 hours?” It will definitely answer with “It is certain.” This past Wednesday, Feb. 22nd, TurnToTech hosted a Meetup event where attendees had the chance to build a fully-functional mobile Magic 8 Ball app. Patrick Sanders, one of our instructors here at TurnToTech and an iOS expert, led the 3-hour session of approximately 20 attendees. People who participated came from all different backgrounds, which made for a very interesting and fun crowd. First, they looked at the process …

Field trip to BuzzFeed

Lisa alumna, Blog, BuzzFeed, field trip, iOS, networking, New apps

Field trips aren’t just for kids! TurnToTech’s students took a trip to the BuzzFeed office on East 118th Street to take a look around and hear what TurnToTech alumna Paola Mata and her co-workers do day-to-day. Paola has been an iOS developer at BuzzFeed for 2 years and is an active member of several organizations– one of them being the NYC Tech Latinas, a community of female Latinas who are active in the tech community. She and Greg Thompson, Software Engineer at BuzzFeed, kindly took time out of their busy day …