The Uplog

This post was written by one of our founders, Ruffa Carreon and originally posted on medium.com . Nine months ago, we started a coding bootcamp in the Philippines, Uplift Code Camp. Our mission is to teach relevant programming skills and help more individuals to jump start their tech careers — get better jobs, build apps and share the knowledge to more people. We are a team of three developers, Gen and Mike (in Seattle) and me (in Manila), juggling our day jobs while building the bootcamp. It’s definitely a challenge but us having the same passion and commitment on education, made Uplift possible. How did we start? We started on developing the curriculum, spending months on getting insights from many other programs, cross comparing them with our own experiences and tailor fitting it to be consumable by people with no background and also challenging enough for those who have some basics. And as we are rolling it out, we’re learning from our students and feeding it back to how...