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Hi, I'm Avi, co-founder and Dean at the Flatiron School. It is my pleasure to welcome you to our community bootcamp for learning how to code and become a web application developer.

Since we started Flatiron School over four years ago our goal has always been to provide students with an accessible path to learn to code and to launch their career by helping them land their first job as professional developers.

During this journey we wrote a lot of curriculum about code. We broke down every relevant framework to its core components and developed tutorials and challenges around the topics at the heart of modern programming. Instead of just teaching you how to use the trendiest framework whose popularity is temporary, our curriculum teaches you the concepts behind the frameworks so that your knowledge and fundementals are always relevant. Whether React, or Angular, or Ruby on Rails, our pedgogy is centered around the patterns that power software development rather than just trends. Not only do you learn the languages, technologies, and frameworks that the market demands, you understand how and why these tools were built, making you employable for years to come. It’s because of this that over 1,000 people just like you have mastered this content and gotten jobs as developers.

Beyond our curriculum, we've always known that what truly empowers our students to succeed is our community. As great as our instructors are at lecturing and as available as our faculty is to questions, we know that students learn more from eachother than we could ever teach. What we do best, our entire focus, is providing students with the best curriculum to learn to code in the most accessible format while connecting them to the most serious and inspired people we can find. Curriculum and Community is how and why our students succeed.

Today, you are joining this movement. We have made our entire Fullstack Web Development curriculum available online in a self-driven format. We have built a social learning platform around the behavoirs of our community.

When you are stuck on a lab, you can ask a question to the entire community and work through the problem with another student. When you are confused by a concept, you can host a study group to discuss with other students. When you need a break you can checkout the communal chat lobby. As you meet people you can add them as friends, supporting them in their journey and never ever having to learn alone.

Welcome, I’m excited for you. Work hard, be nice, stay positive, and I have a lot of faith that everything will work out for you.