DigitalCrafts Blog
The DigitalCrafts blog shares ideas, information and tips aimed at helping you get ahead personally and professionally, with topics ranging from online learning success to career development.
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Tuition Help for Veterans: Introducing the GoFundVeterans Scholarship
We're pleased to announce our partnership with GoFundVeterans, a non-profit dedicated to supporting veterans, active military members and their families. Through this partnership, we are able to offer a $2,000 scholarship to assist men and women who served in the U.S. Armed Forces.
Published: February 01, 2019 Readtime: 3 Minutes -
Atlanta Bootcamp to Silicon Valley Startup: How I Got a Job After My Coding Bootcamp
Finding a new job can be tough enough, but add in a cross-country move to a new city, and you've got a whole new kind of challenge. Alumna Merilee Wheelock shares her experience and offers job search tips for new bootcamp grads.
Published: January 31, 2019 Readtime: 6 Minutes -
Deploying Web Apps on AWS for New Developers
Learn to set up an AWS server and deploy web apps with DigitalCrafts Instructor Rob Bunch—even if you're new to coding.
Published: January 23, 2019 Readtime: 2 Minutes -
Inclusion and Diversity: Announcing The Curtis Jenkins Scholarship
DigitalCrafts is proud to announce a scholarship for African American students, thanks to alum Curtis Jenkins.
Published: January 20, 2019 Readtime: 3 Minutes -
A Guide to Surviving a DigitalCrafts Dev Bootcamp
What's it like to attend a dev bootcamp? How do you know if it's something that would be a fit for you? Dive in as Mohammad Azam shows us what to expect from bootcamp and what you can do to prepare.
Published: January 11, 2019 Readtime: 3 Minutes -
Improving Diversity in Tech: Announcing the Turner's Women in Tech Scholarship
DigitalCrafts is proud to announce that we have partnered with Turner to provide a scholarship for women, with the goal of increasing diversity in tech.
Published: January 09, 2019 Readtime: 3 Minutes -
The Power of Rubber Duck Debugging: How Teaching Helps You Learn
Sometimes, the best way to make sure that you understand a topic is to explain it to someone else, even if that someone else is a rubber duck. Behold the power of rubber duck debugging.
Published: December 13, 2018 Readtime: 3 Minutes -
What is jQuery, and Should You Learn it in 2018?
jQuery has been widely used for more than a decade, and well-known companies like Kickstarter, Twitter and Hootsuite have used it in their applications. What else can jQuery do, and should you learn it?
Published: December 11, 2018 Readtime: 3 Minutes -
Crush the DigitalCrafts Code Assessment with These Tips
If you're applying for a coding bootcamp, you might be mystified as to why you're asked to complete a code assessment. Clearly, you don't know how to program yet! But from our perspective, the assessment help us make sure that everyone who attends our classes is at a common baseline and ready to learn more complex topics. Here are our top tips for successfully completing the DigitalCrafts code assessment.
Published: December 03, 2018 Readtime: 3 Minutes -
Neato Burrito: JavaScript Promises and Async/Await
Promises were one of the first concepts in JavaScript that really made my brain melt. Then I was taught in my DigitalCrafts class to think of the assembly line at Chipotle, and everything seemed to click into place. And thanks to ES8, we got some syntactic sugar called ‘async/ await’ to clean up our Promises, giving us a shorter, nicer-looking way to write asynchronous functions.
Published: November 30, 2018 Readtime: 5 Minutes
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