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Members of the YouthNet, organisers, and aspiring coders. YouthNet informed to have conducted a coding boot camp for youths recently.[/caption]
Dimapur, June 16 (EMN): Local resource group YouthNet held a coding boot camp for young coders at the YouthNet Center of Entrepreneurship recently. The event was informed to be a collaborative programme with in partnership with Quest Alliance and Microsoft.
The programme was part of the Microsoft YouthSpark initiative in north east region, a press release from the organisers stated on Friday.
“The overarching mission of this initiative is to instil the belief and confidence in young people that technology is very much an extension of their agency, and that they can become creators from users in the digital ecosystem,” the press release stated.
On day-one, a session on digital literacy, digital footprint, digital citizenship, and rights and responsibilities were covered. On day-two, the concepts of programming through scratch and the YouthSpark MyCode toolkit were shared and the participants designed their own video games.
The final day saw text-based programming, specifically in the context of creating websites, hosting, HTML coding. The world is moving towards technology enabled services and this is one of the first coding boot camps in the North East of India. The coders have been assigned project to build websites and apps for local entrepreneurs, it was informed.
“YouthNet shared that there has been a students who could not attend because of their classes and a summer coding program for kids between the age of 8 to 15 will be held during the summer break,” the updates stated.
