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Today: Silicon Valley's raft of Wednesday earnings reports lead to volatile Thursday trading, with Cisco falling and Applied Materials and SunPower gaining. Also: Facebook advances while expanding gender options, facing advertising lawsuit.
The Lead: Silicon Valley earnings reports lead to stock swings on Wall Street
After a preponderance of quarterly earnings reports from Silicon Valley on Wednesday afternoon, the companies involved experienced volatility in Thursday trading, with the majority swinging positive but the largest tech firm involved, Cisco, heading down.
Cisco's decline was not as gargantuan as the last time the San Jose networking giant announced earnings, when it suffered its worst day on wall Street in three years after warning that difficulties in emerging markets would tamp down sales. Even with that warning, though, investors and analysts were surprised at a 55 percent year-over-year drop in Cisco's profits and an unsettling decline in the company's gross margin, and shares dipped 2.5 percent to $22.27.
"There was some hope that the inflection point in the company's business would happen earlier as opposed to later," Edward Jones analyst Bill Kreher told Bloomberg News. "But now, a return to growth in fiscal '14 seems unlikely."
Still, most analysts found Cisco's numbers to reflect stabilization as CEO John Chambers looks to turn around the company, calming fears of a long-term downturn and leading to a round of notes suggesting the lower price could offer a strong entry point for potential investors, likely helping the company avoid an even larger stock tumble.
"Cisco is clearly in a tough spot but trends are not deteriorating and order trends suggest that an upturn is feasible within a couple of quarters," Nomura Equity Research analyst Stuart Jeffrey wrote. "Expectations seem low and we believe that the next move in estimates is more likely to be up than down, driven by a product refresh cycle that we expect to overpower any structural headwinds."
Other companies that reported Wednesday enjoyed strong gains Thursday on Wall Street. San Jose solar manufacturer SunPower jumped 5 percent to $33.19 after releasing financial information that reflected "a breakout year for the company," according to CEO Tom Werner. A year after losing $144.8 million in the fourth quarter, SunPower reported net income of $22.3 million on revenues of $638.1 million, and predicted even stronger returns in 2014. SunPower's performance, along with the long-awaited opening of the Ivanpah solar power plant on the California-Nevada border — a joint effort between Oakland's BrightSource Energy, Google and NRG — advanced a bright view of the solar industry, and San Mateo solar installer SolarCity was one of many solar companies to benefit, gaining 6.2 percent to $75.81 on the day.
Santa Clara semiconductor-equipment company Applied Materials gained 5.4 percent to $18.87 and reached a 52-week intraday high of $19 after reporting quarterly profits of $253 million, or 21 cents a share, on revenues of $2.19 billion. Even before the close of Applied Materials' big-money merger with Tokyo Electron, the company produced large year-over-year gains of 39.5 percent for revenues and 644 percent for net income.
Santa Clara graphics-chip company Nvidia hit a 52-week high of $17.46 and closed with a gain of 3.2 percent at $17.36 after reporting year-over-year gains of 24 percent for profits and 9 percent for revenues. "Take-aways were skewed decisively to the positive," B. Riley analyst Craig Ellis wrote; he raised his rating of Nvidia shares to a "Buy" and moved his price target from $14 to $21.
The only major Bay Area tech firm to join Cisco in a post-earnings decline was Sunnyvale storage firm NetApp, which dropped 3.5 percent to $41.10 after reporting profits of $192 million, or 55 cents a share, on revenues of $1.61 billion.
SV150 market report: Facebook, Apple, Google boost Silicon Valley tech stocks
Wall Street enjoyed overall gains Thursday, and technology stocks were a big driver, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq topping the three main U.S. indexes in percentage growth and the SV150 index of Silicon Valley's largest tech companies growing by more than 1 percent.
Facebook increased 4.5 percent to $67.33 while making a change to offer more gender choices to users while facing a new legal challenge stemming from its advertising tactics. The Menlo Park company expanded the possible responses to one of its social network's main identification questions, the user's gender, offering more than 50 new options beyond the standard male or female choices. "There's going to be a lot of people for whom this is going to mean nothing, but for the few it does impact, it means the world," Facebook software engineer Brielle Harrison told the Associated Press. Facebook's advertising practices caused headaches for the company again Thursday, however, as a group asked a judge to overturn his approval of a settlement deal between Facebook and litigants upset with its "Sponsored Stories" advertisements, which use its customers' actions on the social network in advertisements to the user's contacts. The fresh challenge contends that the settlement deal violates laws in several states, including California, meant to protect minors from being used in such ads without their parents' permission.
Apple gained 1.6 percent to $544.43 despite possible Apple TV issues stemming from the proposed $45 billion merger of Comcast and Time Warner Cable, the latter of which Apple has reportedly been negotiating a deal for its set-top box. Pundits also questioned if the big-money cable-television deal would have a negative effect on Netflix, which still managed to hit record highs and gain 1.8 percent to $436.55 while securing the final season of the "Star Wars" animated series, "The Clone Wars." Google also hit record highs Thursday, gaining 1.1 percent to $1,199.90 while reducing the amount of information it provides about acquisitions just days after Bloomberg News revealed that the Mountain View Internet company was the world's biggest dealmaker during the past three years. Tesla Motors hit record highs for the second time this week, gaining 2.2 percent to $199.63, and Twitter dropped 0.7 percent to $56.47 as CEO Dick Costolo talked about the San Francisco company's future at a Goldman Sachs event.
Up: SolarCity, Applied Materials, SunPower, Facebook, Workday, SanDisk, Nvidia, Adobe, Salesforce, Tesla, Netflix, Apple, Pandora, Intuit, Hewlett-Packard, Juniper, Yelp, Google, Yahoo, Oracle
Down: NetApp, Cisco, Electronic Arts, Zynga, Twitter, LinkedIn
The SV150 index of Silicon Valley's largest tech companies: Up 18.63, or 1.21 percent, to 1,558.88
The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index: Up 39.38, or 0.94 percent, to 4,240.67
The blue chip Dow Jones industrial average: Up 63.65, or 0.4 percent, to 16,027.59
And the widely watched Standard & Poor's 500 index: Up 10.57, or 0.58 percent, to 1,829.83
Check in weekday afternoons for the 60-Second Business Break, a summary of news from Mercury News staff writers, The Associated Press, Bloomberg News and other wire services. Contact Jeremy C. Owens at 408-920-5876; follow him at Twitter.com/jowens510.


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Kean University Provost Jeffrey Toney and I recently polled people — seeking respondents via Twitter, the Houston Chronicle and The Huffington Post — to determine who is the world's best living science communicator.
I will be the first to admit our methodology was not perfect, and I'll discuss that below, but I think the results from 579 respondents contained herein offer a pretty good indication of who is likely perceived to be the best living science communicator.
And the short answer is: Neil deGrasse Tyson. More about why I think this is an exceptional choice in a bit, but first, let's get to the results.
The results for our first of two questions (red = awesome, blue = good, green = OK, orange = don't know):
In the first question Tyson is the clear winner, amassing a total of 361 "awesomes," or 73 percent of those who voted on the question. Next closest is Bill Nye (48 percent) and Carl Zimmer (35 percent). Of the people who know Zimmer, his work is rated as "awesome" by 59 percent. That's impressive.
Tyson is the clear winner in every metric but overall recognition. Only Hawking is more well known — only 2 percent of respondents didn't know him, compared to about 9 percent who said they didn't know Tyson.
The second question aimed to get at the question of how widely read or viewed each communicator was.
The results (red = weekly, blue = monthly, green = a few times a year, orange = never):
Again the clear winner in this category is Tyson, whose work is seen, read or heard weekly by 41 percent of respondents. Zimmer came in second in this category (30 percent), followed by Phil Plait (22 percent). Those three stood clearly ahead of the field.
Thus, based upon the data above, Neil deGrasse Tyson is both the most effective and most visible science communicator. His closest peers, again based on the survey data, are Carl Zimmer, Bill Nye and Phil Plait.
When we launched the poll Jeff and I received a fair amount of criticism on Twitter, including: the nominees above were poorly chosen, the list was too slanted toward North America, the list was too slanted toward men, the list was too slanted toward TV personalities. And so on.
I think these are fair criticisms, and I tried to address them in an interview I did with Deborah Blum for the Knight Science Journalism Tracker.
The bottom line is that this was a first-go at our survey, and we're going to take a lot of the suggestions we received and refine the survey next summer when we plan to do it again.
On a personal note, I fully concur with the choice of Tyson, an astrophysicist.
A number of wonderful writers made our list (i.e. Zimmer, Plait) and a number of tremendously successful and great science writers did not make the initial list of 14. Was it fair to exclude so many of these men and women from our initial list?
We were looking for someone who might be the next Carl Sagan. There are a lot of wonderful science bloggers and authors who have devoted audiences, but if their reach is, say, 5,000 or 10,000 or 20,000 people, then they are hardly making a deep impression on the public consciousness at large. So we were looking for people who are both gifted in communicating science and have a broad reach. In today's age that means working in a number of mediums, but perhaps most importantly in television.
Tyson is such a person. He has written books, he has educated people through the Hayden Planetarium, he has appeared on countless television shows and he has a marvelous weekly podcast, Star Talk (be sure to listen to the Cosmic Queries episodes, in which Tyson appears to know everything). He also will host Cosmos, a show coming on FOX next year that is a re-make of Sagan's hit series that aired in 1980. This is sure to boost his profile further.
Perhaps by this time next year we will be talking about Tyson not just as possibly the next Carl Sagan, but simply as the next Sagan.


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But my asthma was not getting better that week (I was on Marax- you RPh people remember that?) and so, after repeated visits to his office, my pediatrician admitted me to Local Hospital.
My most vivid memory is watching "The Year Without a Santa Claus" on TV ("I'll have a blue Christmas without you...). It was the only thing I remember being on. Maybe that's why, ever since then, I've been oddly partial to the "I'm Mr. White/Green Christmas" musical numbers.
Yes, kids, back then you had to PLAN your holiday-TV-special-watching. It wasn't as simple as just, say, finding which of the 182 channels were showing it on any given night, or popping the DVD in whenever you wanted. A motivation to learn to read was so you could look through TV Guide and make a list of when and what channel each of the key specials was on. Because if you missed them, too bad. They wouldn't be back until next year. So, no matter where you were, you found a way to watch them.
I also had to learn to pee in a urinal. But, I digress.
I thought I was a good patient. I really did. I don't remember pressing the call button much. My breathing got better. I went home the next day.
And now let's fast-forward to the mid-90's.
Studly, white-coated, intern Dr. Grumpy, fresh out of med-school, is now doing his training at the very same hospital where he spent that night long ago. And one day, while waiting for an admission to come out of the MRI, he wanders down to medical records, looking for that long ago chart from 1974.
Down 2 flights of stairs, in a dimly lit basement, they still had it. It was on microfiche (remember that, people?). I sat down and perused the notes out of curiousity. Reading off asthma drugs long withdrawn from the market.
And then I came to the nurse's notes.
And my nurse that night had written "Patient won't stop whining."
WTF! You bitch!
Me? Whine?
I didn't whine! I was sick, damn it! And my IV hurt! And the hospital food sucked! And the TV reception could have been better! And you put the urinal where I couldn't reach it! And you kept waking me up for that breathing treatment! And I needed another blanket because you kept my room pretty freaking cold! And you had coffee-breath!
I put the chart away. I was curious. I called the pediatric floor to ask if she still worked there.
She'd retired the month before I started my internship.
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- Changed my life- 2/12/2020Tamara • Jr. Java Developer • Graduate • Course: Java • Campus: Minneapolis • Verified via LinkedInHelped me launch a new career that I love. I had no software engineering experience, but was able to quickly learn so much in such a condensed amount of time. It has improved my quality of life in so many ways and put me on the road to reaching my goals.
- Best Decision I Could Have Made- 8/7/2019Austin • Application Developer • Graduate • Course: .NET/C# • Campus: Minneapolis • Verified via LinkedIn
Personal Background
I've been messing around with programming ever since I was the age of 14 (I'm 21 now as of writing this review), and I knew that being a software developer was always what I wanted to pursue, so it didn't come as a surprise when my trajectory shifted from completing a college degree to joining a code bootcamp after 3 years of taking classes that didn't benefit my degree, and pretty much setting myself up to be in college for way longer than I hoped for. I really wanted to just jump into my career as soon as I could considering the previous experience that I had. After some research, I had selected my top three picks for bootcamps that I was interested in.
The Software Guild really stood out to me because of the employment statistics, along with offering a .NET/C# course which I was also pursuing. After looking into the school, I learned more of the fantastic job prep skills that the guild offered, and at that point I decided to apply.
The Experience
Upon being accepted to the guild as an apprentice, I was given the pre-cohort coursework that is mandatory to be completed before starting, which is an introductory, online web development course that focuses in teaching you the basics of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This is so that all apprentices are on the same basic level of web development knowledge before starting that section of the actual course, which is very beneficial to your success at the guild (especially if you really dive into it!). It took me a little while to get the pre-work done, but it was very worth the time.
At the start of the cohort, it is all fundamentals. If you are new to programming, or just object oriented programming in general, getting through the first half of the course WILL be fairly difficult. There's a lot of material to cover, and you have to make sure that you're pushing yourself to complete your projects on time, and to get all the help you can get from your instructor (that's what you're paying for, after all) in each course milestone. Even with my previous experience with programming, there were still so many new fundamental skills that I picked up, and the workload of the course certainly challenged me.
The next section of the course is where you'll be putting all that basic web development knowledge, along with your newly gained .NET/C# knowledge to use. In my opinion, this is the most difficult section of the entire cohort, since there is so much information that is being taken in, and each week moves by so quickly that it's easy to fall behind. However if you are to fall behind at all in the course, you can quickly get caught up if you are proactive and get all the help you need to get up to speed with the material you might be struggling in. I don't think that there was a single day that I was in class and didn't ask at least a handful of questions to my instructor on what I was working on or anything at all that I was curious about.
There will be many presentations, guest panels, mock interviews, and other very beneficial tools available to you as an apprentice to get you ready for starting your job search that I STRONGLY would recommend not to pass up. Take all the notes and soak up all the information you can during all these sessions.
Concluding Thoughts
Like the title says, joining The Software Guild was one of the best decisions that I could have made for my career. I was provided with skills that I wouldn't be able to obtain on my own time, and it has opened up so many opportunities for me, as well as given me tools that are applicable to not only my software development career, but many other sections of my life too.
The #1 advice I'd give to somebody looking to join The Software Guild, or any code bootcamp in general goes as follows:
1. Be ready to work. You'll be very busy with projects and staying on top of course material throughout the cohort.
2. Don't miss up on all the opportunities & additional help that you're offered from the staff & instructors! You want to take in as much information as you can that can benefit you & your career.
3. Just have fun. Find ways to make the course enjoyable for you.
- Great Education- 5/29/2019Stanley • Frontend Developer • Graduate • Course: Java • Campus: Louisville • Verified via LinkedIn
Background: I attended UofL Computer Engineering program for a year before dropping out in favor of this bootcamp. In 3 months I learned more than I probably would have staying all 4 years at university writing tic-tac-toe applications.
Coursework: Having some (although very basic) knowledge of Java helped me with the first week or so of the coursework. Regardless, the projects you will work on are challenging for a beginner; do not be scared off by this, it is good to struggle a bit when learning to code. The instructors will guide you through the purpose of fundamental techniques so that you can gain a solid foundation of learning how to go about solving problems through code. This is type of critical thinking is key to having a successful career after graduation and definitely seems to be the focus of the program, rather than just writing code for repitition sake.
Post Graduation: I have been working as a developer full time for nearly two years now and continue to use techniques that I learned while studying at the Software Guild. This program has been incredibly useful propelling my career and the community is great even after graduating -- I still talk with friends I made in the program regularly and sometimes go back for Wednesday night board games.
- Excellent Preparation for Real World- 5/9/2019Emmanuel Ruvalcaba • Graduate • Course: .NET/C# • Campus: Louisville • Verified via LinkedIn
I can only consider my experience at the Software Guild as the best career decision I have ever made. Because of the skills I learned at the Guild I have been able to excel in an incredibly challenging, lucrative, and fulfilling career. You are thrown into a very expansive and comprehensive curriculum with only a certain amount of knowledge and encouraged to struggle and learn from the difficulty. This was key for my success in the Guild and now in my career. The single best skill I learned was how to effectively research issues, problems, code, etc and how to find the answer I needed. I will say at some point I do wish I was given a bit more direction at the beginning of the bootcamp when I knew practically nothing and slowly given less and less as I learned on my own but nevertheless I was successful.
- Great course for new developers- 5/9/2019Thomas Graves • Jr Software Developer • Graduate • Course: Java • Campus: Louisville • Verified via LinkedIn
I had some previous coding experience through school but didn't want to pursue a bachelors so I decided to try the Software Guild out. I had a newer instructor so the first few days were a little rough around the edges but by the end of the program everyone was prepared for an entry level position and had the skills to continually learn new things. The course is really hard if you don't commit to it and use your time efficiently, several people switched to online because they couldn't keep up.
They really do help you with finding a job, resume reviews, networking, interviews, etc. Basically the entire part after completion of the program. I found a job after about a month and the job market was slowing down when I was applying because of the holidays. (Nov - December)
I highly recommend checking the guild out if you are interested in a tech career. Also, you should probably research your job market when deciding which language to learn but it's not a big deal because they give you access to the other course at the end of the program. I learned Java but my job uses .NET/C#
- Life Changing Decision- 5/7/2019Keller Martin • Software Engineer • Graduate • Course: Java • Campus: Louisville • Verified via LinkedIn
I decided on doing the Software Guild after almost a year of casually teaching myself to code. Spending 3 months dedicated to learning a new trade with a cohort of motivated colleagues was the best career decision I've ever made. The work was hard, but I put my time in and came out with 3 job offers the week before the program ended. I never imagined that after only three months, I would be in a position to pick the job of my choosing.
I was able to double my salary and enter a new career as a software engineer in 3 months, all thanks to the instructors, employment team, and my classmates at the Software Guild. I would do it again in a heartbeat.
- Absolutely worth it- 5/7/2019Cole Smith • Full Stack Developer • Graduate • Course: .NET/C# • Campus: Louisville • Verified via LinkedInI contacted the Software Guild on a whim. My enrollment councilor was great, his name was Steven and he answered all my questions completely and truthfully. Thanks to him I knew exactly was to expect. If you are even slightly considering a programming bootcamp I would highly recommend reaching out to the Software Guild.Once I enrolled everything went so fast. Course work is hard and plentiful, it has to be for a twelve week session. Despite this, everyone working there is personally rooting for you to do your best. With knowledgeable instructors who love teaching, it's hard not to succeed. They help guide you just enough, while still pushing you to figure out answers on your own. Shout out to Alan and Austyn! They are both fantastic.Toward the middle of the course, you start meeting regularly with the Employer Network Manager. At the Louisville school, this is Jacob. Jacob is well connected in the tech scene and will do everything he can to help you find a job you are excited about. He may also go rock climb with you, if you play your cards right.Overall I am so happy to have completed this course. Before I signed up, I was not doing work that I cared about. Now I am a full stack developer for a small start up in my favorite town. I don't know where I would be without the Software Guild. I can honestly say that my life is much more fulfilling exclusively thanks to this program and the people that make it possible.
- Best Decision I've Made- 5/1/2019John Kachurek • Front End Developer • Graduate • Campus: Akron • Verified via LinkedIn
It has been almost three years since I started my program at the Software Guild, and I figured I'd leave a review. The boot camp industry is so crowded these days that it's important to tell the good programs from the bad, and the Software Guild is one of the best. I constantly have friends asking me for advice on bootcamps, and good user reviews are where I point them first.
Unfortunately, the basic .NET and Java course are no longer available in Akron, but as long as the other locations uphold the same or similar standards, it's truly one of the best programs around. 12 weeks of instruction from staff who were true experts. Every instructor had at least a decade or two of experience as regional experts. One was a Microsoft MVP. All of them invested themselves in student success.
The staff and instructors were totally dedicated to seeing every student graduate on time and employed (if that's what the student was seeking). Personally, I accepted a job offer by the end of the eleventh week of the program. The Guild brought in probably a dozen different employers to interview us on-site in week ten, which led to that offer. The program focuses on preparing for the professional world and practical skills for the field, which gives it a big edge over other camps that might focus on surface level skills with buzzworthy technologies.
There were some students who did struggle with certain parts of the course, but they all graduated and found jobs because they let instructors know what was giving them trouble and they sought extra help early and often. The Guild cares too much about its reputation to just churn out students and let them fall by the wayside. Even now, more than 2.5 years into my career, if I needed the help, I could hop back in the slack and ask for interview & resume help, or ask someone if they have any connections at a company where I'd like to apply. Every aspect of the program was top-notch, and I've found myself better prepared for my career than most of my peers with equivalent years of experience. I'm now on my third job, having just moved across the country, and I'm loving it.
This next bit depends on the people in your cohort, but for me, I made friends during my time there that I keep in touch with to this day. We would all hang out, support each other, and push each other through a light sense of competition. The benefits of doing an in-person program, if you can afford taking the time off for it, cannot be understated. It was one of the best decision I've ever made, and my only frustration is that I didn't do it earlier.
My biggest piece of advice, which you could figure out if you read between the lines of my review: you get out what you put in. If you really throw yourself into the program and dedicate yourself to it, you will succeed. When you have trouble, schedule extra time with an instructor or TA. Hell, even if you're caught up, schedule extra time to learn something extra or solidify your basics. Make friends. Experiment with side projects and ask peers & instructors for feedback. You will be in such a strong position when the time comes to enter the professional world. Just make sure that you are ready to commit to the program and that you want to pursue this career track before you dive into it, or you might be disappointed.
- A risk that paid off- 4/10/2019David Petersen • Programmer I • Graduate • Course: .NET/C# • Campus: Minneapolis • Verified via LinkedIn
I chose to roll the dice on a boot camp program after deciding on a career change, and I am really glad that I picked The Software Guild. I had next to no experience going in, and while the first few weeks were very rocky and full of conceptual leaps that I was half-convinced I would never be able to make, I eventually hit a certain stride and felt like this was really something I could do.
The support from the instructors was stellar and forthcoming, and I thoroughly enjoyed my time with the others in my cohort. While the experience was harrowing and emotional, I look back on it fondly because it was a lot of fun too.
The curriculum was comprehensive, modern and tailored to developing the skills in demand in the Twin Cities. I do wish that we had spent some time on learning at least one popular JavaScript framework at a more in-depth level, but that's the only shortcoming of the course that I could perceive.
My job hunt after graduation took longer than I expected it to (~3 months), and longer than it did for most of my classmates. Coming from a background of mostly manual labor and low-level administrative work, I began to worry that it wasn't going to happen for me, but TSG's job placement support helped immensely with my search during that time. Ultimately I was hired by a member of their employer network in a role that I thoroughly enjoy.
I'm very satisfied with my experience at The Software Guild.
A few pieces of advice for prospective students:
- Have a sense of whether or not you enjoy this type of work before committing to the program. If you know that you plain hate it before you even start, spending all day learning it isn't going to make you like it any better.
- This is a boot camp program. Unless you are doing the online program, be prepared to commit nearly all of your time to the program if you want to make it.
- DO NOT skimp on sleep. It is absolutely vital to the accelerated learning process. All-nighters will ruin you.
- Trust the program and your instructors. Much of the time you are likely to feel that you aren't grasping the material quickly enough or well enough, and that is normal. Power through and have faith.
- Expect to put in a lot of leg work in your job search. Demand for developers may be high, but you will still have to put in the effort of getting noticed.
Hope this helps any prospective students.
- Great Program!- 4/9/2019Stuart Wilson • Full Stack Software Developer • Student • Course: Java • Campus: Minneapolis • Verified via GitHub
I just graduated from The Software Guild and am very happy with the program and the results - I ended up getting a great job offer on graduation day!
Quick note on myself - I have a CS degree and took an 8 year break to work in a totally different industry, I used the Guild as a way to get back up to speed with employable skills very quickly. My degree did give me a distinct advantage in job applications, but the other students in my cohort I keep up with are also interviewing with multiple companies this week.
My instructor was great and the perfect fit for the 'flipped classroom' model. He was extremely patient with students' questions and had a great handle of the material. I appreciated that he could give us insight on what the workplace and interview process actually looks like and that he was regularly available on the weekends to help with questions on our projects.
My one issue was that he's a very gentle touch and I think our class could have used a little more structure. We regularly abandoned the flipped classroom to do more traditional lectures and tutorials and I think it was in part because only about a quarter of the class did the 'how to succeed' prework - the rest didn't really follow the model.
The curriculum focuses on core programming and Java skills in the first half and databases / web development in the Spring framework for the second half. The online materials are solid, with both text and videos (transcripts available) as well as detailed code-alongs to get some hand-on practice. There are regular sets of excercises accompanying the material that, while optional, do a good job of giving you practice on the topic.
Two small issues with the curriculum. First, the earlier material has been rewritten a couple times since the videos were recorded which means sometimes the videos are the only place where the material exists. This is fine but there are frequently HOURS of video that's mostly repetition from the written portion, digging through for those nuggets of new material was a pain. Second, while we leaned the practical skills needed, I wish we had spent a little more time on the underlying details of the tools we were using - I can describe what Spring does but I wish I knew how more about how it did it.
The course is very fast-paced with nightly reading and projects every weekend. There is a hard deadline after the first half of the class and we ended up losing 4 of the 12 students. The people in the class who had never written a line of code before struggled but some of them did make it through.
Job Assistance
The job assistance program is fantastic! We got a lot of great advice over several sessions on how to interact with recruiters, interview, find jobs and more. The course culminated in two days of 20-minute speed interviews with local recruiters and employers. While they emphasize there's no guarantees, I ended up getting a couple solid leads leading to a job from them. Job assistance continues after graduation, graduates get regular check-ins and emails with leads until they find a job.
This is a great program to learn Java web development quickly and move straight into finding a job. It is demanding, several people did not graduate. Great instructors, good but slightly disorganized curriculum, and a great job assistance program. Recommend!
If you want to see even more words about the Guild, I blogged my experience here: http://www.stu.systems
- Best decision I have ever made!- 4/8/2019Adam Fahrenkamp • Associate Consultant I • Graduate • Course: Java • Campus: Minneapolis • Verified via LinkedIn
I came to The Software Guild to change careers from being a therapist, and I did not really know what to expect other than that it would be intense and I would learn Java in twelve weeks. In that twelve weeks, I learned more than I could have possibly imagined, and I was extremely impressed with everyone. From my instructor David who was an incredible teacher who spent so much time making sure every person understood the material, to Josh who handled the day-to-day operations and made everything run smoothly from a logistical standpoint, to Kipp who did an amazing job getting us all prepared to find our first career in software development.
I ended up accepting an offer on graduation day to work with an amazing company Kipp had invited for the speed interviews, but even if I had not received an offer, Kipp continues working with graduates to help find a job in the field. I truly cannot express how grateful I am for this program, and if you are interested in learning software development (and are willing to work hard for twelve weeks), sign up for The Software Guild. You will not regret it!!
- Great Decision!- 12/8/2018Adam Carey • Junior .NET/C# Developer • Graduate • Course: .NET/C# • Campus: Minneapolis • Verified via LinkedIn
I didn't know what to expect when I walked in for the first day of boot camp. I didn't think I would be able to learn something that could get me a job in such a short period of time. The instructors made it great and were there to answer any question I had. This bootcamp changed my life! I was in a dead-end job that I had been working for over ten years and I never thought I would get out of it. I would recommend this bootcamp to anyone who wants to change their career and find a new passion a long the way. With the help of the instructors and our employee network manager, I got a job offer before the bootcamp was even over! I am glad I made the decision, it changed my life.
- Amazing Experience- 11/15/2018Stephen Erickson • Software Developer • Graduate • Course: .NET/C# • Campus: Minneapolis • Verified via LinkedIn
The staff and teachers were excellent.
I would recommend this experience to anyone who is willing to make learning their only focus for the duration of the cohort. 60-70 hr weeks is not an exaggeration.
At times you may feel lost since it moves quickly, but eventually, it all melds together.
With amazing support, I was able to find a job around two weeks after graduation. Some of my fellows were hired before graduation, as they began their search near the end.
Their motto is "Guild for life", meaning I can continue to count on them and other graduates for support in the future.
- Well worth the investment.- 10/18/2018Dmitriy Zelenskiy • Application Developer • Graduate • Course: Java • Campus: Minneapolis • Verified via LinkedIn
This program won't teach you everything there is (that's impossible in 3 months) but gives you a solid foundation that employers find valueable. Instructors were knowledgeable in their field and always helpful. Employer Network Manager was very proactive in preparing everyone for applying, networking and interviewing. Everyone who graduated in my cohort and was looking for a job is currently working in the field last time I checked. Bottom line is that you can learn by taking online courses at Udemy but if you're serious about a career change, then having solid, reputable networking and support from The Software Guild can really help you land a job as a developer. Just be warned if you make the commitment, be ready to work. This is fast paced and many felt like they were behind until they made it to the end. I've attended private and community colleges and always regretted it because the return on investment was lacking. I have no regrets about this one! One of the best decisions I've made so far.
- Online .Net Learning- 12/1/2017Zachary Stone • Graduate • Course: .NET/C# • Campus: Online • Verified via LinkedIn
In December of 2016, I applied for the first group of online students with the Software Guild. I went in with little to no programming experience, but a desire to learn more.
I am so glad I did! I went in with not much confidence in my abilities, not just in programming, but in my ability to use my skills in the workplace. The Software Guild gave me a lot of confidence. I have learned the industry standard, and also have been guided in avoiding the common pitfalls junior developers fall into.
- The curriculum is organized really well. We started with very basic front end development in HTML/CSS and a small amount of JavaScript. Then we dove into the C# language, finishing up the end of the course by bringing the front end and back end together into one large mastery project.
- The community is healthy and strong. Utilizing the "Open Hours" where they had two TAs available for a significant portion of the day to help with any questions, often there were alumni present in Slack and other mentors who could give feedback, or lend a helping hand.
- Not only do they teach you to code, they teach you to code well. I was amazed at how well they were able to achieve this level of learning in a boot camp style of teaching.
- Online course lets you have a more "flexible" boot camp experience.
- With the boot camp being online, that brings the most "Cons". Communication is difficult when you are not there with your mentor, or in a class room setting.
- You work alone with the online program. I understand why they had to do this, but it takes away the experience that I think is important, learning to work well with a team.
My experience was overwhelmingly positive. Although it was a very difficult course (also my daughter was born at the end of my course.) the guild bent over backwards to ensure I was equipped to succeed, all while not holding my hand.
Shout out to Sarah & Randall for being AWESOME mentors!
- Java Development(Backend)- 12/1/2017Larry Worster • Graduate • Verified via LinkedIn
Intense 12 week immersion into Java development, including full-stack projects utilizing MVC architecture including Spring, AOP, JDBC, TDD, Web Services, and Javascript.
- Take the Leap- 10/13/2017Natalie S. • Performance Test Engineer • Graduate • Course: Java • Campus: Akron • Verified via LinkedIn
I came to a point in my career where I was bored and I wanted to not just explore my interest in software development, but to turn it into a career. After 3 years in the workforce, I had absolutely no desire to go back to a traditional university to pursue further education. I felt without any official technical training I was unable to even get my foot in the door in a more technical role. When I learned about The Software Guild, it immediately felt like a perfect fit. The overall value of in-person training, the 12-week time commitment, the quality of the instructors, and the skills covered in the boot camp were the biggest factors for me to choose The Guild.
Don't take me wrong, the course was INTENSIVE, and that's the point. You have to be "all in" to really get the most value out of the program. It was difficult and frustrating at times to learn and understand skills that were, for the most part, very foreign to me. The instructors were incredibly patient, and were able to offer their industry experience to provide us with realistic expectations about required skills in the market. The pair coding we did throughout the course was also incredibly valuable.
In the end, it was absolutely worth it. The Software Guild gave me the skills I needed to not only get recognition, but also succeed and thrive in a technical role I otherwise would not have been able to secure. I would highly recommend The Guild to anyone who wants to pursue a more technical career path, even if it is not necessarily a software development role as the skills I have learned are applicable in numerous areas
- Best educational decision to date- 9/29/2017Vincent Siciliano • Application Developer • Graduate • Course: Java • Campus: Akron • Verified via LinkedIn
I was beyond excited to hear about the Software Guild on NPR, especially when I realized a couple of my old friends had gone through the 12-week program with successful outcomes. I had wanted to get into software development for some time, and I was considering going back to school for a BS in Computer Science, but I saw that the career outcomes were comparable with high job placement of junior developers from the program (and in a significantly shorter amount of time!).
After reading many of the reviews on Course Report and speaking with some Guild instructors, I decided to drop everything at my marketing/project management role and prepare for what would be the most intensely satisfying 12 weeks of my career.
The Guild is no joke. They teach you exactly what you need to be an effective developer. In the software field, this often means being able to independently find solutions to complex and sometimes abstract problems. The 'flipped classroom' style of learning forces you to learn the material on your own time, after hours, so that you can apply your new-found knowledge to realistic business applications the next day at the Guild. Since it is more or less up to you to manage your time, it feels very similar to working in the actual software industry -- strict deadlines, adding maximum value to projects, and finding time to push the project to the next level beyond the minimum assignment criteria with new features and enhancements (a must!).
Pat Toner, the Lead Java Instructor at the Akron Software Guild, was (and continues to be, post-grad), the single most helpful mentor throughout my academic and professional career. For me, this did not mean sugar coating critiques or lowering the bar on assignment criteria (which has often been my experience in academia). Pat responds thoughtfully to well-developed, focused questions, and he will always go out of his way to offer the most honest, helpful advice and direction. Pat is a very friendly and funny instructor who has a talent for making his lessons very memorable. He is a great listener, and even after my time at the Guild, I still go to him for advice on all kinds of software industry-related questions (he still provides the same level of thoughtfulness and insight even with his new cohort in session).
Code is never handed to you at the Guild; You have every resource you need to excel on every single project. These resources come in the form of staff members who are dedicated to the success of each and every Apprentice (very small class sizes by the way, so you get plenty of help if you are willing to seek it out), a brilliantly developed online curriculum that builds very nicely on the previous lessons (you will be surprised how soon you create working, enterprise-level web applications), a suite of software tools and frameworks that are relevant and very useful even long after completing the Guild, and perhaps most important post-grad, the network of smart, talented, genuinely passionate, and supportive Software Guild alumni network with whom you will likely stay in touch for years to come.
Matt LoPiccolo, the Employer Network Manager in Akron, works tirelessly to help ensure each Apprentice is well-equipped to land jobs of personal interest. With Matt's help, I and most of the cohort landed really good jobs either during the program or soon after graduation. No matter how busy he is helping other Apprentices, he will ALWAYS find time to have genuine, meaningful conversations that will leave you with information on how to become a much more competitive, desirable candidate.
My advice to people considering the Software Guild for to facilitate in a career change to development is to spend a good amount of time coding beforehand to make it is something you want to do as a career. For most people this was the case, and those people also ended up doing very well during the program and continue to enjoy their new software developer jobs.
I will always look back fondly at my time at the Software Guild. I wish it existed before I started my undergraduate studies!
- Great program!- 9/16/2017Taylor • Software Developer • Graduate • Course: .NET/C# • Campus: Louisville • Verified via LinkedIn
I attended the May 2016 .NET cohort at the Louisville, KY location. The course was well paced and fun. My instructor wasn't just knowledgeable, he was fun and was always approachable. On multiple occaisions we had speakers or a Q&A panel from local companies. There was an interview event with quite a few employers. After the course, it took about two weeks, three interviews before I decided to accept a job. I am still at that job a year later.
- Changed My Life- 9/11/2017Jory Pestorious • Software Engineer • Graduate • Course: Java • Campus: Minneapolis • Verified via LinkedIn
Learning to code and make web applications is not a one step process. Many many things are involved in this process. So while learning this on your own is definitely possible, it is quite a daunting task. I took many courses online and learned how to do some simple code and make simple websites, but I never understood how the whole thing came together or how to make a web application with a backend and database.
This bootcamp brought it all together for me and made me understand the nitty-gritty to the whole big picture and helped get me into a place where I could get a software engineering job at a company that is not only in the Fortune 500 but also in the Fortune 100.
It was great to spend three plus months focused on learning without distractions and with a group of like-minded people. It is definitely a huge upfront investment in time and money, but if you make it through the pre-work without much trouble and are very interested in this field, just keep continuing on the path and eventually I believe you'll come out happy like I did.
But this bootcamp is not magic. You must like coding and computers. You must be motivated to learn and code. If you are getting into this career for the money, you will probably drop out of this program quite quickly like several in our cohort did.
I was a part of the Java cohort in Minneapolis in 2016. Michael was our teacher, and he honestly was not the best, but us students still made it through. Now, I hear the teacher is Corbin. He is amazing. You won't be disappointed.
Overall, this bootcamp changed my life and I am so happy I took the chance.
- Strong foundation and rewarding experience- 8/18/2017Brittney Scaccia • Software Engineer • Graduate • Course: Java • Campus: Akron • Verified via LinkedIn
I'm a somewhat atypical boot camp case: I have worked in (manual) software testing for three years at an information security company in Chicago. I took a leave of absence from my job to attend the Software Guild in hopes of moving from testing to development within the same company. Management was cautiously supportive, and since graduating from the Guild and returning to work, I've been hired on permanently as a software engineer, with the salary to match.
I chose the Guild primarily because it was the most highly rated full-stack boot camp that teaches Java, staffed by instructors who each have over a decade of experience in software development. As someone with a previous background in instructional design, I was also encouraged to learn that instructional designers are on staff as part of the parent company, which I took as a good sign toward the quality or at least organization of the curriculum.
Having said that, the Java curriculum at the Guild deeply impressed me with its thoroughness and organization. Skills build on each other in a logical progression with a level of detail that ensures you understand the tools and technologies you are using on a more fundamental level than merely how to use them. My cohort had a "flipped classroom" style of instruction where we spent evenings watching videos and doing step-by-step code-along exercises that built an example application with you and explained all the components in detail. During the day, the instructor, Pat, led class discussion on concepts and broke the room into smaller groups to work on projects implementing what we had learned. Pat's classroom is a lot of hands-on learning - whatever you're thinking of trying, he'll say, just try it and see what happens - but he is able to answer questions, help solve problems, and provide insight into your design dilemmas, with just the right information-to-snark ratio. He's both knowledgeable and hilarious, which kept us smiling even when the work was tough and demanded long, frustrating hours.
Even I have been surprised at how exactly the Guild program matches what you see in the workplace. You will have stand-up every day, code review every week, and pair programming/collaborative design on every project. You use the same project management software at the Guild (i.e. Atlassian tool suite) that enterprises use. My colleagues have been surprised that I came back already familiar with not just Java and object-oriented design concepts, but also Spring, Maven, SQL, Git, and n-tier web application design - all critical knowledge that is not necessarily typical of junior developers. Most importantly, because you understand what the tools do and why they exist, you gain the ability to communicate clearly with experienced developers: to ask intelligent questions and to understand the answers, using the same common vocabulary.
The team environment at the Guild was what really made the experience for me, and why I endorse the full-time, in-person program for others considering a boot camp. I lived at the Lofts, the nearby apartments that serve as on-campus housing, only a five minute walk from the school, in a very nice suite alongside many of my classmates working on the same projects. We spent many evenings reviewing lessons together, discussing our designs, and even doing peer code reviews prior to the official ones in class. I only had to go next door to get a fresh perspective on something I didn't understand or see a way of doing something that I had not thought of before. Toward the end of the class, many hours were spent rehearsing interview questions with one another and reviewing each other's resumes over beers. That kind of cameraderie is invaluable for learning and for morale, and something you just can't get from an online class. I have never met a group of smarter, more driven people for whom I've had so much respect.
If I decided tomorrow that software wasn't for me, I would still consider my time at the Software Guild to have been a great investment. It was like four years of college (but much cheaper!) smashed into the space of three months: I was the most challenged I have ever been, learned a great deal that will serve me well wherever I go, made friends and connections that will last, and had a ton of fun. To be honest, it was difficult to leave and go back to my normal life. If you're thinking of doing this boot camp thing, and you're not afraid of a challenge, just do it. It's more than worth the time and money.
- Come for the training. Stay for the network- 8/4/2017Zack Newton • Web Producer • Graduate • Course: Java • Campus: Minneapolis • Verified via LinkedIn
Graduated May 2017. Working with a great, small company and all after I moved to minneapolis with nothing but a duffel bag and a whim.
The biggest strength about the Sofwtare Guild over most bootcamps is, in my opinion, the help you get finding a job after the fact. They (and by 'they' I mean the employement manager Kipp) stick with you until you get that job. Not to toot my own horn too much but I am a smart, friendly guy who had a pretty good time with this bootcamp. But that doesn't do you any favors if you don't have any work experience. The Software Guild is built around the idea of getting you ready to work as opposed to just passing the class.
Honestly, I can just whittle this whole review down to one thing:
I moved halfway across the country for this bootcamp. I don't regret it.
- Gerat Time! Hard Work!- 4/13/2017Jayce Crowther • Software Engineer • Graduate • Course: Java • Campus: Akron • Verified via LinkedIn
The Software guild was a challenging and rewarding experience. The overall experiecne was great. I took the Java track in Akron and lived in the Lofs. Living at the Lofts was super conveniet as the buiilding is nice and it's a quick walk to school. The Software Guild is selective about who they let in, so if you make it through their screening process you will be surroundded by smat, like minded individuals. The Guild is no joke, and you have got to be willing to put the hours in or you will be left behind. I came in with a failrly strong background, having been through FreeCOdeCamp and having taken numerous courses on Udemy, but that only gave me a good start until week 2 when the Object Oriented Programming began. If you want to do well and get all you can out of the course, plan on 10 hours a day minimum, especially on the weekends.
My instructor Pat is a great guy. He is very enthusiastic about Java and teaching. He keeps the class lively and exciting. Their are also a lot of other instructors available for you to ask questions to, but it is up to you to seek them out when you need them.
The curriculum is good over all, but I felt the material that was provided for first half of the course was batter explained and laid out than the material in the second half. It would have also been nice to have more group or pair projects.
My main mission was to get a job straight out of the guild, and I was able to do that. There is a careeer advisor available to help you and you can ask any of the instructiors to help you prepare by giving you mock interviews. I definitely felt prepared once I started intterviewing and I was able to answer technical questions well.
All in all if you are looking to get into tech as I was and you want to do Java, come to the Software you won't be disappointed.
- College dropout, to GE Automation Engineer.- 3/10/2020Dennis Furlong • Automation Engineer • Graduate • Course: Java • Campus: LouisvilleI've been a tech enthusiast for over half of my life and I turn 25 this year. I've made my own small projects just outside the scope of hello-world, and learned a few things here and there about algorithms. I picked up some concepts that developers lean on and how they use them. But I knew I could never actually DO the work to make a cohesive application that stands up on its own legs by itself. There was always something in a tutorial that eluded me, or it was an outdated piece of information I was learning from or what have you.
Well I'm glad I found this company from a friend who works with an alumnus. Because as of March 5th, 2020, 4 months after graduation, I landed an Automation Engineering position at GE, Haier here in Louisville making 2.5x as much as I've ever made. I wouldn't have seen an interview without this place and what it has done for me as a developer and critical thinker will stick with me for the rest of my days. My colleagues at GE possess MBA's, BA's, and MD's in the various sciences. And I get to work with them! Me! A college dropout! It's not about knowing everything in the book before you get there, it's about the thirst for the journey. That's what your future employer will be looking for.
The Software Guild will go down in my book as one of, if not the only private education specialized to produce competent developers that can actually thrive in the workforce. I believe more than half of my class (11 graduates) have landed a job already as well. That's all thanks to the staff, who are SO incredibly passionate about what they do; they have the guidebook to unlock your understanding for all levels of experience, zero to hero. If you're already a hero, they'll see that and push you even farther. If you're at the zero, they know exactly where you're going to go wrong and when you're going to feel like quitting and are there for you. Is there a better position to be in when you attend? No. I already had a great deal of knowledge relative to my classmates, as some of my classmates were just finding out what the cmd prompt was. Some of those students got jobs way faster than I did.
I 10x'd myself as a critical thinker, programmer, designer. All because the instructors are patient, humorous, down-to-earth and above-all accomplished and brilliant. The supporting staff as well, like Jess and Kipp and Amy ( and more ) are all unsung heroes too. They aren't part of your software education per-say, but they are part of holding you accountable to pursue that job and how to carry yourself to land that job. Those staff members mentioned are the ones who are providing job leads, practice interviews, resume building, networking opportunities, seminars, weekly check-ins; that all support you in your final stretch to landing your life-changing job.
Thank you to everyone at The Software Guild. Best decision of my life. I hope if you aspire to be a developer but are at ends meet with being self-taught and think you can do better for yourself; consider looking into investing 1/4th of a year into this place. I highly, highly doubt you will regret it.
- Great decision!- 2/9/2020Dani • Jr Software Developer • Graduate • Campus: AkronThis course isn't for the faint of heart, but it's so worth it!
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As CPJ previously reported, at least 20 journalists have already been jailed after covering post-election protests in Minsk. Protesters have denounced the conduct of the December 19 presidential election in which incumbent Aleksandr Lukashenko was declared the victor.
"We are incensed by the brutal repression being carried out
by Belarusian authorities against the country's independent and pro-opposition
press. It must stop at once," CPJ Europe and Central Asia Program Coordinator
Also Tuesday, BAJ said security agents searched the home of Nasha Niva Editor-in-Chief Andrei Skurko
and took his home computer. BAJ President
Lawyers for detained journalists Irina Khalip and
Radina suffered head and ear injuries when police violently dispersed a post-election demonstration that she was covering. But she has not received medical attention in custody, the editor's mother, Nadezhda, told Charter 97. Local press reports, which BAJ confirmed, said Belarusian authorities are trying to place Khalip's 3-year-old son, Daniil, in a foster home against the wishes of his grandparents.
Khalip's husband, opposition presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov, is also being held by the KGB. Last week, Amnesty International quoted Sannikov's lawyer as saying the politician was tortured in KGB detention. Sannikov's legs appear to be broken, and his speech and demeanor indicate head injuries, the lawyer told Amnesty.
In a rare joint statement issued last week, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton, condemned the post-election violence and called for the immediate release of more than 600 political detainees rounded after the December 19 election. "The government of Belarus should take the steps necessary to create political space for political activists, civil society representatives, and independent journalists," the statement said. "Respect for democracy and human rights remain central to improving Belarus' relations with the United States and the European Union. Without substantial progress in these areas, relations will not improve."
Lukashenko, in power since 1994, won a fourth term in office with just under 80 percent of the vote, according to the state Central Election Commission. On December 20, observers with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe criticized the lack of transparency in the vote count. A defiant Lukashenko told a news conference the same day that post-election detainees were "pogromists and bandits." In an explicit threat against the press, he pledged to make journalists "answer for every word they write," the presidential press service reported.


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- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 11/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 (10-ounce) package Crème de Menthe baking chips (recommended: Andes)
- Shaved Crème de Menthe thins (recommended: Andes)
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, melted
- 1/3 cup cocoa
- 2 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons milk
Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease a 13 by 9 by 2-inch pan.
Using an electric mixer, combine butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl; beat at medium speed until creamy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add vanilla, mixing well.
In a separate bowl, combine flour, cocoa, and baking powder. Gradually stir into butter mixture. Fold in mint chips.
Spoon into greased pan. Bake for 35 minutes.
While brownies are baking, prepare frosting. Combine butter, cocoa, confectioners' sugar, vanilla and milk in a large mixing bowl; beat at medium speed with an electric mixer until dry ingredients are moistened. Beat at high speed until spreading consistency.
Remove pan from the oven and allow brownies to cool in pan on wire rack.
Spread with chocolate frosting. Top with shaved mint thins.
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Depiction in the series
Season one
Sugarcube Corner is featured in multiple episodes. It first appears in The Ticket Master in the background. Pinkie Pie bakes cupcakes there in Applebuck Season and consumes desserts prepared for the royal visit of Princess Celestia under the pretense of being a food-taster in Swarm of the Century. The first floor holds a store-front, which is also used as a party or gathering space in several episodes, as well as a kitchen and a room with a taffy maker seen in Call of the Cutie. The second floor contains Pinkie Pie's bathroom, which is seen in Feeling Pinkie Keen, while the third floor in the building's cupcake-shaped tower contains Pinkie's bedroom. There are café tables outside the shop for customers to enjoy their treats right outside the store, which Pinkie uses in Griffon the Brush Off.In Party of One, Pinkie holds a birthday party for her pet alligator Gummy in her loft on the top floor. Twilight Sparkle also stops by the store to buy a cake for Pinkie's surprise party, which Pinkie Pie partly overhears through a hole in the floor of her room which seems to bypass the second floor entirely. When Rainbow Dash comes to collect Pinkie for the surprise party, she enters Pinkie's room through the balcony door at the very top of the building.
Season two
In Lesson Zero, Twilight buys twelve cupcakes for a picnic with her friends, although Mrs. Cake gives her an extra one for free, making it a "baker's dozen".
In Baby Cakes, even more of the building is shown. Pinkie Pie serves a snack to Pound Cake and Pumpkin Cake in a previously unseen room across from the rear staircase that joins to the kitchen, containing a dining table and shelves of candy. There is another bathroom, where she attempts to give the baby twins a bath. Pound and Pumpkin share a nursery on the second floor where Pinkie Pie attempts to change their diapers and settle them down for their naps, although not before Pound Cake drags her from the room and down the stairs through the main floor. There is also another doorway in the second floor hallway but it is unclear what it leads to.
Season fourPinkie Pie's loft and bedroom are shown in slightly more detail in Pinkie Pride. She keeps her party cannon in a large cabinet next to her bed, and a short staircase leads up to the balcony. Along the staircase wall, Pinkie has hung various photos of the parties she's thrown, including the first party she ever threw, Twilight's welcome-to-Ponyville party, Gummy's birthday party, and Shining Armor and Princess Cadance's wedding reception.
In the episode Maud Pie, Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Fluttershy, and Rarity arrive at Sugarcube Corner some time before sunrise. When Pinkie Pie answers the door and shoves them inside, they find the pink pony's upper-story loft filled with mountains of rock candy. With the arrival of Pinkie's sister Maud approaching, Pinkie asks her friends to taste-test her rock candy recipes.
After some time of taste-testing—and the ponies collapse from stomach and toothaches—Pinkie explains that the candies are part of a tradition between herself and Maud in which they make and trade rock candy necklaces. Pinkie wishes to let her friends in on this tradition, especially with Maud going away soon to get her "rocktorate" in rock science. Pinkie tells them how much she's looking forward to seeing her best friends and closest sister get along. When Rarity informs Pinkie that Maud will be arriving at the train station soon, she bolts out of the bakery.
In Testing Testing 1, 2, 3, Rainbow Dash notices the Cutie Mark Crusaders coming out of the bakery while flying overhead with Twilight Sparkle.
Season five
In Castle Sweet Castle, Pinkie gets some balloons and confetti from Sugarcube Corner to help spruce up Twilight's castle. In Make New Friends but Keep Discord, Discord visits Pinkie at Sugarcube Corner to order every single cake in the bakery and ask if she's accompanying anypony to the Grand Galloping Gala, but Discord cancels his order after seeing Fluttershy walking with Tree Hugger. In The Lost Treasure of Griffonstone, Pinkie is baking a marjoline recipe with Gummy when her cutie mark begins glowing, indicating she is being called by the Cutie Map. She leaves Gummy to finish the recipe, which turns out to be a mistake since Gummy does not get any work done. In Slice of Life, Gummy witnesses the wedding guests flying into Town Hall from Sugarcube Corner while giving an existential inner monologue. In Party Pooped, it is revealed that Pinkie has a secret room under Sugarcube Corner where she keeps files on everyone in Ponyville and what kind of parties they love. Sugarcube Corner appears in Pinkie's dream in Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep? where the Tantabus turns all the cakes into horrible gelatinous monsters.
In The Cutie Re-Mark - Part 1, the first time that Starlight Glimmer alters the timeline, Twilight and Spike come upon Sugarcube Corner to find it is now a plain old building with a loaf of bread on the top. At the end of The Cutie Re-Mark - Part 2, Starlight and Pinkie bake cupcakes in the original timeline's Sugarcube Corner.
Season six
In No Second Prances, Pinkie Pie introduces Starlight to Mrs. Cake at Sugarcube Corner in hopes that the two can become friends, only for Mrs. Cake to feel intimidated after Starlight uses her magic to craft a beautiful cake in seconds. In 28 Pranks Later, Rainbow Dash visits Pinkie Pie at the Corner and finds her to be apparently ill, and she later discovers the "zombified" Mrs. Cake, Pound Cake, and Pumpkin Cake. In The Fault in Our Cutie Marks, Gabby and the Cutie Mark Crusaders visit Sugarcube Corner as part of their quest to find out what Gabby's special talent is.
In P.P.O.V. (Pony Point of View), Twilight visits Pinkie Pie at Sugarcube Corner in order to hear her side of the story regarding her disastrous recent outing with Applejack and Rarity.
Season seven
In A Flurry of Emotions, Twilight visits Pinkie at Sugarcube Corner to get some treats for the sick foals at Ponyville Hospital, as well as some apology cakes for Cheerilee and the toy salespony. During this, she leaves Flurry Heart to a playdate with Pound and Pumpkin.
In It Isn't the Mane Thing About You, Pinkie Pie accidentally messes up the inside of Sugarcube Corner with silly string while celebrating Pound and Pumpkin's "sneeze-aversary", and later floods it with shampoo while trying to clean it up.
Season eight
In School Daze - Part 2, Twilight and her friends gather at Sugarcube Corner to discuss where their missing students could have gone.
In The Break Up Break Down, Sugar Belle visits Sugarcube Corner while planning to apprentice under Mrs. Cake. It is also where Big McIntosh (temporarily) breaks up with her, under the belief that she was planning to break up with him.
In Marks for Effort, Sweetie Belle brings Cozy Glow to Sugarcube Corner, so to assist the latter in helping Mrs. Cake with her baking.
Sugarcube Corner is seen multiple times during Yakity-Sax, with Pinkie Pie temporaily moving out due to her despair over not being able to play the Yovidaphone.
Depiction in Equestria Girls
My Little Pony Equestria GirlsThe human world version of Sugarcube Corner is shown to be a small cafe on a street corner. In the chapter book Equestria Girls: Through the Mirror, human Flash Sentry refers to this cafe as the "Sweet Shoppe".
Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks
In the film, Twilight and her friends stop at the Sweet Shoppe soon after Twilight's return to catch up on recent events.
Rainbow Rocks animated shorts
In the animated short Music to My Ears, DJ Pon-3 stops by there and waves to the main five (minus Twilight).
Equestria Girls: Summertime Shorts
In Monday Blues, Sunset Shimmer gets breakfast at the Sweet Shoppe but drops it as soon as she exits when she trips over a dog leash.
Equestria Girls: Choose Your Own EndingIn the Sunset Shimmer ending of Text Support, Sunset helps human Twilight Sparkle decipher Timber Spruce's text message at the Sweet Shoppe.
Other depictions
Friendship is Magic shorts
In Sundae, Sundae, Sundae, Sugarcube Corner unveils an ice cream museum on a very warm day, however, by the time the museum opens, the ice cream has already melted.
See also
- ↑ The spelling as it appears in Adventures in Ponyville.


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When Marilyn Hagerty and her Olive Garden review went viral last year, television celebrity and chef Anthony Bourdain seized her for his fledgling book imprint almost as fast as Simon Cowell's eyes started flashing dollar signs when he first heard Susan Boyle.
My cynical guess is that Bourdain saw Hagerty's deceptively gentle reviews as the equivalent of Susan Boyle's bushy eyebrows. This is a woman who bypasses the condiment counter at Arby's, observing "We're not much for sauces on our meat."
But did he see that she's a remarkably insightful writer, and that those polite reviews adapt a Midwestern version of the Southern phrase "Bless your heart"?
Hagerty, like so many civil Midwesterners, tends not to complain, and doesn't quite damn with faint praise. Her code for a so-so (or lesser) restaurant involves going into great detail about a place's decor.
Reviewing Arby's, Hagerty invests more words in the scenery than the food she ate, observing only that the turkey in the turkey sandwich was "moist and tasty" and that for only 300 calories, she "felt self-righteous" eating it. "Self-righteous" is a phrase that conveys so much, doesn't it? Including the pride some people associate with privation.
I wonder if Bourdain can see past his amusement at Hagerty's sincerity — he calls her "the antidote to snark" — to discern the quality of her writing. She's really good. E.B. White would approve of her concise, perceptive style, and her engaging, singular voice. In her hands, even American chain food becomes something larger (and I don't mean a paunch, although paunches and American chain food shops certainly go together).
"Grand Forks" is discerning (really) about the place of food in American culture. As a book, it would not be out of place in a course like Mario Montano's Colorado College classes about the anthropology of food.
Thanks for publishing her collected reviews, though, Anthony Bourdain! Bless your heart.
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