How I Made It Work: Going From Finance To Tech

How I Made It Work: Going From Finance To Tech

ALPHA Camp’s coding bootcamp veterans come from a wide array of professional backgrounds, and many of them have harboured doubts about their previous job for a while before biting the bullet and jumping ship. This article is for those of you who are currently working...
[Graduate Spotlight] End of a Beginning

[Graduate Spotlight] End of a Beginning

On 20th November, our bootcamp graduate Kelvin Chow wrote on his Medium blog about his final bootcamp experience.  When I first came in to ALPHA Camp, it was 14th August 2017. So many questions ran through my mind… “How skilled would I be when I complete...
How NOT to learn coding

How NOT to learn coding

Let us be clear: learning coding is not easy. You’re basically learning a whole new language. However, similarly to improving your language skills, learning to code is fun, it’s rewarding, and you can start to see results quite early on. For beginners, there are some...
Four UX Signs Your Prototype Will Fail You

Four UX Signs Your Prototype Will Fail You

As a UX consultant who advises early stage startups, I often encounter founders in one of two camps: those who say they don’t need to conduct user research and those who regret not doing it correctly earlier on. Of course the only real difference between the two...