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Omaha Code School to launch second class, students will share at 1MC
Omaha Code School is ready for round two. Applications opened Thursday for its second class, which will run from July 28 through Oct. 17. The first class of developers is set to finish in a month, May 16. “We want to be a benefit to the community year round,” Code School instructor Sumeet Jain said.…
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OCS Blog: Halfway through, balancing work and play is key
Six weeks, officially half way. It feels like we have been here three months already, but at the same time, like we just started. Long days are starting to catch up with me. I can hardly keep track of the days of the week anymore. My language has changed from English to a weird set…
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OCS Blog: A third of the way home, with a lot more to learn
Four weeks. It’s crazy to think we are already a third of the way through Omaha Code School. We’ve come a long way since my last update. Let me get you up to speed with what we are doing. Up until this point, our programs didn’t have any persistence. That means when we shut down…
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OCS Blog: 2nd week of Code School brings challenges, hoodies & ice cream
(Guest post by Andy von Dohren) We’ve come a long way in the first two weeks. We started out small, only coding in Ruby on the command line. Our first assignment was to write a small program to keep track of pets for a humane society…
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Omaha Code School student starts blogging his experience for SPN
(Guest post by Andy von Dohren) Omaha Code School is the first course of its kind in Omaha. There are lots of similar courses in larger cities across the nation, such as New York and San Francisco, where our instructor, Sumeet Jain, lived and taught a similar course. After he moved to Omaha, he and…
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More than $14,000 in scholarships given to Omaha Code School students
Omaha Code School begins in four days, but students got a big surprise Thursday when the school announced $14,500 in scholarships. The scholarships will help offset the $6,000 in individual tuition for the program’s 14 students…
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Omaha Code School finds a home
The Omaha Code School has found its digs in the upscale Midtown Crossing, a retail and restaurant development near 31st and Dodge streets. It’s at 200 S. 31st Ave., Suite 4107, to be exact. The school has also chosen its first 13 of 16 students. There’s some interesting back stories. Read more at Omaha World-Herald’s…
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Organizers believe Omaha Code School will turn novices into new hires
Over the summer, Sumeet Jain taught an immersive web development course at General Assembly in San Francisco. Less than six months later, he and fellow organizer Rahul Gupta announced Omaha Code School, a new intensive program to bring novice developers to experts in just 12 weeks. “My students eagerly devoured the course content and became…