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Coding school the Iron Yard is taking noobs to junior-level coders Downtown

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Tech companies large and small call Vegas home. There are the fledgling Downtown startups, the mid-sizers like Banjo, and the big fish like Zappos, IBM and Bigelow Aerospace. They vary in size, but have this in common—they’re all hiring.

That’s what inspired the Iron Yard coding school to open its 20th location on Charleston and Casino Center boulevards, in the old Brett Wesley Gallery building. The school offers a 12-week immersive program, part-time classes, free, single-topic “crash courses,” and curriculum for kids.

The immersive courses take noobs and transform them into junior-level coders, focusing on back-end and front-end engineering, mobile engineering and data science. Curriculum is taught by industry pros and developed with the needs of local employers in mind.

“We take people who are interested in launching a career in tech who may not have had experience in writing code,” says the Iron Yard’s chief marketing officer Eric Dodds. “It’s not about the person’s pre-existing skill set as much as their motivation.”

Students come from diverse backgrounds, ranging from clerks to dog trainers to yoga instructors. The school will graduate its first class in September, and a new class begins in October.

Waiting for grads, Dodd says, are at least 80 local tech positions.

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