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Nigeria’s AltSchool increases course options amidst soaring tech-skill demand

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After launching its inaugural school of engineering earlier this year and raising pre-seed funding, Nigeria’s AltSchool has expanded its catalog to include data and product schools, responding to the growing demand for these technical skills by youth and employers.

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Vietnam-based CoderSchool gets $2.6M pre-Series A to scale online course platform

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The company, founded in 2015 by Charles Lee and Harley Trung, who previously worked as software engineers, pivoted from offline to online in early 2020 to bring high-quality technical training to everyone, everywhere. Apple expands its free coding courses and materials for educators. “Coding is the future.

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Wilco gamifies your path through your software engineering career

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What’s currently broken about training for software engineers? OF: The best way developers have to improve their skills today is on the job, but that is both slow and inefficient. You need to wait for a particular situation to arise in order to practice a skill.

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Nigeria’s AltSchool raises $1M pre-seed to build an alternative school for Africans

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The demand for software engineers is expected to grow by 22% between 2020 and 2030, according to a report by the U.S. In 2020, Yusuf toyed with the idea of building a physical campus where he and his team would train software engineers to get international opportunities. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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53% of IT leaders see AI replacing headcount — others question that approach

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Developer roles in danger Of course, IT leaders are well aware of these arguments in favor of AI as a force multiplier rather than a workforce replacer. Up to 40% of the current software engineers may no longer be needed three years from now, as AI takes over routine tasks, he says.

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IT leaders: What’s the gameplan as tech badly outpaces talent?

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They can certainly educate internally, but the technology is evolving so rapidly that by the time you finish a grad school course or program, the technology is different. Instead of hiring AI experts from the outside, it looked for existing software engineering staff who were interested in learning the new technology.

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MergeStat channels open source and SQL to bring ‘operational analytics’ to software engineering

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“This has led us to where we are today, where our mission is to support operational analytics for software engineering teams,” DeVivo said. “If it’s involved in building or shipping software, we’d like to make it possible to query with SQL.”