MartinMorrison
Senior Member
Programming is a scare skills in South Africa. In 2012, I was part of a team that set up a programming education initiative - Hyperion Development - www.hyperiondev.com.
We offer our courses for free to full-time (normally university students) and prisoners in the Western Cape. As of today we have processed several thousand registrations from over 95% of all tertiary institutions in the country, and we are now the largest online platform for aspiring programmers in Southern Africa. Our primary funder is the Python Software Foundation in the US with whom we have a close relationship with.
The platform is tailored to the needs of a SA audience - low data, limited internet, and more individual and human support than typical online courses. All work is marked by hand.
To further fund this initiative, we're offering short, 3-5 week online courses for working professionals in the basics of programming, or more intermediate web/mobile/software development. These courses include daily interaction with our SA-based trainers over the entire 3-5 week period - everything is marked by humans. Trainers deliver detailed, individualised feedback, through a system we've built that allows the trainer and learner to work in near-real time on pieces of code to correct errors in coding style, efficiency of solutions etc. Courses are designed to be very flexible, and to be taken part-time alongside a busy work schedule.
Please check out our website - www.hyperiondev.com - for more information, to register for a course, or to give feedback. Happy to answer any of your questions here or through our contact form.
Would appreciate the support of the MyBroadband community who are especially in touch with the issues in IT in South Africa. It was through these forums that we heard about the governments plans to adopt Delphi nationally over Java, and this spurred us into action. We eventually managed to train nearly half of all high school IT teachers in the country for the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal Departments of Education - in Java with funding from Oracle. Very keen to continue trying to help IT on a large scale.
We offer our courses for free to full-time (normally university students) and prisoners in the Western Cape. As of today we have processed several thousand registrations from over 95% of all tertiary institutions in the country, and we are now the largest online platform for aspiring programmers in Southern Africa. Our primary funder is the Python Software Foundation in the US with whom we have a close relationship with.
The platform is tailored to the needs of a SA audience - low data, limited internet, and more individual and human support than typical online courses. All work is marked by hand.
To further fund this initiative, we're offering short, 3-5 week online courses for working professionals in the basics of programming, or more intermediate web/mobile/software development. These courses include daily interaction with our SA-based trainers over the entire 3-5 week period - everything is marked by humans. Trainers deliver detailed, individualised feedback, through a system we've built that allows the trainer and learner to work in near-real time on pieces of code to correct errors in coding style, efficiency of solutions etc. Courses are designed to be very flexible, and to be taken part-time alongside a busy work schedule.
Please check out our website - www.hyperiondev.com - for more information, to register for a course, or to give feedback. Happy to answer any of your questions here or through our contact form.
Would appreciate the support of the MyBroadband community who are especially in touch with the issues in IT in South Africa. It was through these forums that we heard about the governments plans to adopt Delphi nationally over Java, and this spurred us into action. We eventually managed to train nearly half of all high school IT teachers in the country for the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal Departments of Education - in Java with funding from Oracle. Very keen to continue trying to help IT on a large scale.
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