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The Ruby AI PodcastBuilding Futures: AI, Careers & the Rails Ahead with Avi FlombaumIn this episode of the Ruby AI Podcast, hosts Valentino Stoll and Joe Leo are joined by Avi Flombaum, the founder of Flatiron School. Avi talks about the origins of Flatiron, the success it achieved, and the educational methods used to teach programming, emphasizing on the importance of understanding code deeply and leveraging AI efficiently. He discusses the challenges and changes in the industry, particularly with the rise of AI, and provides insight into modern workflows and product development. The conversation also touches on the necessity of integrating product thinking into engineering and how automated workflows can improve consistency...
2025-11-0451 min
Command Line Heroes en españolPrimero lo BASICoAntes necesitabas haber estudiado un doctorado y tener una gran cantidad de hardware para poder ser programador. Pero en 1965 dos ingenieros tuvieron una idea revolucionaria: facilitar la programación para que la gente pudiera introducirse a ella. Los lenguajes para principiantes, como BASIC, abrieron las puertas del desarrollo de código a todo el mundo. Tom Cormen y Denise Dumas recuerdan que BASIC lo cambió todo. Avi Flombaum y Saron dan consejos para elegir el primer lenguaje con que un principiante puede abrirse paso en esta nueva etapa del desarrollo de software. Además, Femi Owolade-Coombes y Robyn Bergeron nos...
2021-11-0226 min
Learning InsightsAdam Enbar with Flatiron SchoolFlatiron School was founded in 2012 by Adam Enbar, a venture capitalist with a passion for education, and Avi Flombaum, a self-taught computer programmer committed to helping his students learn and love code. Adam and Avi came together with a shared mission: to create an alternative education model that provided students with the 21st century […]
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2021-08-2200 min
Learning InsightsAdam Enbar with Flatiron SchoolFlatiron School was founded in 2012 by Adam Enbar, a venture capitalist with a passion for education, and Avi Flombaum, a self-taught computer programmer committed to helping his students learn and love code. Adam and Avi came together with a shared mission: to create an alternative education model that provided students with the 21st century [...]
2021-08-2221 min
The Nelda PodcastAvi Flombaum, Tech Education MaverickChange is the only constancy in life. It’s a maxim that innovative tech educator Avi Flombaum says particularly applies to technology. However, he argues that higher education isn’t keeping pace with the tech skills demanded by the current job market. He asks, “Why do 90% of college grads need a boot camp in order to get a career that they love? If college and universities were doing their job, (boot camps) shouldn’t exist.” In response, Flombaum co-founded the Flatiron School, which provides intensive accelerated boot camp style learning. With an up-to-date curriculum focused on coding, data science, and cybers...
2020-12-0347 min
The Changelog: Software Development, Open SourceLearning the BASICs (Interview)We partnered with Red Hat to promote Season 3 of Command Line Heroes — an original podcast from Red Hat, hosted by Saron Yitbarek, about the people who transform technology from the command line up. It’s an awesome show and we’re huge fans of Saron and the team behind the podcast, so we wanted to share it with you.
Learn more and subscribe at redhat.com/commandlineheroes.
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2019-07-1626 minChangelog InterviewsLearning the BASICsWe partnered with Red Hat to promote Season 3 of Command Line Heroes — an original podcast from Red Hat, hosted by Saron Yitbarek, about the people who transform technology from the command line up. It’s an awesome show and we’re huge fans of Saron and the team behind the podcast, so we wanted to share it with you.
Learn more and subscribe at redhat.com/commandlineheroes.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Command Line H...
2019-07-1626 min
Getting Apps DoneEducation is Social!Joshua is joined by Bekah Hawrot Weigel as guest co-host! Both are joined by Avi Flombaum, founder and Dean of Flatiron School (https://www.flatironschool.com/) to talk about the power of community in education and how NOT to pronounce NGINX!
Be sure to check out our new Slack community (https://gettingappsdone.com/slack) to meet others who are facing the same things you are and share your journeys!
2019-06-2051 min
Just Go Grind#50: Avi Flombaum, Co-Founder of Flatiron School, on Learning to Code and Pursuing a Better Life Through Education Avi Flombaum is a Co-Founder, Dean, and Chief Product Officer at the Flatiron School which provides technical education on coding and programming and was eventually acquired by WeWork to further their mission of enabling the pursuit of a better life through education. Avi has changed thousands of lives by teaching students - with little to no experience - to code and actually launch careers as developers. A self-taught programming prodigy and CTO-by-20, Avi is passionate about helping people learn to love code. The show notes for this episode and all episodes can be f...
2019-04-0838 min
Pursuing MasteryGamification feat Avi FlombaumSean Dagony-Clark, Flatiron School's Director of Teacher Training, talks with Avi Flombaum, Flatiron's Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, and gamification and game design for learning.
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2019-04-0318 min
Breaking Into Startups#101: Avi Flombaum - Co-Founder of Flatiron SchoolAvi Flombaum is a lifelong educator. He is the Co-Founder of Flatiron School, which grew to thousands of students and got acquired by WeWork.
Prior to starting Flatiron School, Avi also built several companies.
Avi’s philosophy believes that education should mold and flex to the needs of the student.
On this episode, he shares his insights about their different programs and how they’re making education more accessible to people without having to carry that huge financial burden themselves.
2018-10-0200 min
Story in a BottleAvi FlombaumWith exponential growth in innovation and tech, the world around it has shifted, leaving opportunity for new jobs and new fields that never existed before; it’s a sector that was created by a generation of makers who saw the early days of the internet not for what they were, but what they could be. Avi Flombaum is one such maker. As a kid growing up in the early nineties in New York City, Avi was introduced to the internet by way of occupying his time in a computer lab while his mother tutored and it was then a pa...
2016-03-021h 08
The StartThe Email - Avi Flombaum“Why do we have grades? Why do we have homework?” These are the types of question Avi Flombaum would ask his teachers. He just didn’t buy into the education system and now he’s on a mission to disrupt it with the Flatiron School.
Listen in as Avi explains how he landed his first programming gig at 16, became CTO of a tech company a few years after leaving college and started the Flatiron School with a mission to change how people learn to code. Oh yeah and there’s some excellent rants weaved in.
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2014-08-1954 min
The Big Web ShowEpisode 89: Avi FlombaumA 28-year-old Rubyist, Skillsharer, storyteller, and entrepreneur, Avi founded @designerpages and NYC on Rails before creating The Flatiron School—a 12 week, full-time program designed to turn you into a web developer.
Links for this episode:http://flatironschool.comhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/24/avil-flombaum-skillshare_n_1817784.htmlhttp://meetup.com/ruby-75https://twitter.com/flatironschoolhttps://twitter.com/aviflombaumhttp://bit.ly/njK8gXhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/aviflombaumSponsored by aneventapart.com - the design conference for people who make websites.
2013-04-2537 min