By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Michael Jaime sold his car and bought a bike so he could pay his tuition and participate in CodeUp, a 12-week bootcamp that teaches non-programmers how to code. Each day Jaime would bike three miles to Geekdom at the Weston Centre in downtown San Antonio to learn […]
CodeHS Turns Kids Into Coders
By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News In the first CodeHS program at Highlands High School this year, Ernest Rodriguez learned to program a computer and to do animation. “I saw the opportunity and I took advantage of it,” said Rodriguez, a freshman. Now he wants to be a computer programmer and work at […]
Codeup Bootcamp Aims to Turn Non-techies into Web Programmers
By ZACH REED Reporter with Silicon Hills News Nathaniel Medrano wrapped up a recent internship feeling that, while the experience gave him great exposure, the job’s DIY learning model-via telecommute no less-still had him looking for ingrained traction in the technology. His work setting up search engines for local directories at a telecommunications company had […]
Soloshot, BiblioTech, Cloud Academy and SMSGate at SA New Tech
By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News On the first Tuesday of every month, a group of people interested in the latest technology developments in San Antonio gathers at Geekdom for the San Antonio New Tech meetup. The hour-long program showcases some of the latest startups in the city along with other interesting projects. […]
Lessons of a First Time CEO at SA New Tech
By ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News At SA New Tech Tuesday, Pressable’s Founder Vid Luther shared tough lessons learned as a CEO. Originally named ZippyKid, Pressable, a WordPress hosting startup, got a new name following an eight hour meeting, scheduled to last 30 minutes, in June with Rackspace Hosting founder Dirk Elmendorf and […]
Codeup Seeks to Create New Developers in San Antonio
By ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News “Learn to Program. Get a Job Offer. Guaranteed.” This is the not-so-humble sales pitch of Codeup – a for-profit code education startup founded by San Antonio entrepreneur and angel investor Michael Girdley. The startup offers a nine week programming boot camp located at Geekdom of San Antonio […]