Every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn to code
“To prepare humanity for the next 100 years, we need more of our children to learn computer programming skills, regardless of their future profession. Along with reading and writing, the ability to program is going to define what an educated person is.“– khan academy.
Currently working on coding for kids “we code”
“While we want to feel sorry about it, the least we can do is start now. Many a times, we at we code ponder on “How would it be to go back in the past and start coding when we were kids”. While the gloom of the opportunities missed disappoint,the possibilities of what can be done inspires. And motivates. “We want to take programming to every school student in India.
Students are taught algebra which is of no use in future but develops and sharpens mind, that’s what coding also do and also have future use. We want some facebook,twitter,skype,google,linkedin from India.
Significance of market : will be targeting all schools firstly in metro cities and then all over india and internationally. Schools are coming forward to teach coding to kids,we want to create awareness firstly in schools so that we can teach kids coding.
What is different/interesting/new about this startup?
Teaching coding to kids will definitely change the education system,students will become thorough in coding if they start early and will remember this for there life and new programming whiz and entrepreneurs will be coming out of India. The coding taught at early stage will become a life learning process and will be help full to students when they become adults or come in college.
What Are The Problems That We Face?
At school level the students are not very well motivated. In India, programming is just another optional subject, the primary ones being Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Biology, which would enable them to secure a seat in a University and help define their career. This, coupled with a lack of recognition and awareness about competitive programming among school students provides no encouragement.
While in China and in some countries in Europe, the students are taught algorithms as a part of their school curriculum, in the US there are sites like USACO which promote IOI by providing a platform to students who can solve related problems. Also, recognition in the form of getting an admission into a university by performance in the Olympiads is quite prevalent amongst these countries.
In India, clearly there is no platform that encourages school students to take competitive programming seriously. And more importantly there is this lack of awareness. Very very few students know of the existence of such a field and the opportunity that exists at their doorsteps. Though there are a few colleges like the CMI and IIIT Hyderabad that do provide admission based on their Olympiad performances too,students do not know about it. These colleges produce the best talent in academia as well as the software industry. They also do not know that there is this Software Industry that respects the value of competitive programming and will want to make them a part of itself on nothing else but their ability to solve hard programming problems.
the teaching will not be limited to private schools,we will teaching under privillaged children who doesnot have any access to computer for free.Entreprenuers or any other layman who does not know about technology they are on our list.
Something has to be done about it, something substantial.
asha chaudhry
hi deepak,
pls share the website of WECODE on the post for everyone to check out and give you feedback.
DEEPAK DUBEY
will be sharing once done with the website 🙂
Nitish Mehta
hi deepak , I think you have been inspired by code.org , when i first saw the video of them i was too , frankly you are doing great work , only thing i will like to say it that you need to make this program Interesting , if you look at code.org they have very unique way to teach , which allows people from different domain to participate and understand whole coding concept . Best of Luck for your venture , Looking forward to your updates
DEEPAK DUBEY
hey, a bit of inspired from code.org but the scenario is totally different here in India.
Shubham Singal
very good idea. I think partnership with schools will be very important. Schools spend a lot of time in computer science courses and with partnerships it can be win-win for both. Schools can pay you the money they keep for computer science department and you can teach during those hours and if students want more then can come after-school as well.
Saraswathi Pulluru
I personally liked the idea of getting kids to code from a very young age – it will be very beneficial to them in the long run. The success of such ideas is also determined long term – the adoption would be really slow. Partnerships with influential schools will help. Similar to Teach for India, you may think of finding ways to attract talent to your startup, which will help you spread the word out.. If you are in the game for long time, I think this will be one startup that will make a difference in people’s lives!
Ankur Shukla
Good stuff Deepak. Wish you luck with your venture.
Is this learning/training in physical locations or just online?
DEEPAK DUBEY
learning in both physical locations and online too
DEEPAK DUBEY
Saraswathi ji tnxx a lot for your advice and support 🙂
Hardik Shah
Hey Deepak,
Why only kids?
There are a lot of people around (like me) who knows nothing about coding but would want to atleast get to learn the basics. Aspiring entrepreneurs from non-tech background could also be a huge customer segment you may want to target.
We do not want to build a facebook but just a simple application/ webpage.
DEEPAK DUBEY
Hey Hardik,
10x for ur take,but like i mentioned in the head of discussion “for ALL”.
Alok Rodinhood Kejriwal
how does all this make money?
Kids as a category is the TOUGHEST to make money from
asha chaudhry
deepak – pls get in touch with akhil gupta – https://www.therodinhoods.com/profile/12mhm0u53vmwe
he is a rockstar rodinhooder. and has experience in dealing with schools.
at a rodinhooders of delhi meetup he told us that he would wake up early to reach schools half an hour before classes started to teach the teachers how to use a computer 🙂
https://www.therodinhoods.com/forum/topics/you-should-be-there-to-experience-it-all-delhi-meet-up-1
Darshan Bhambiru
Congratulations you are already Live, Nice attempt Deepak 🙂
To let you know that your way of thinking also makes others think similarly, though there are a few others who are also thinking in the same direction too, The one I could recommend immediately and as per your intent and direction, Get in touch with Arpan Shah of “TECHNO Gravity” where they are bringing Robotics and Embedded system to the School children and are already working with a Lot of Schools in Mumbai currently adding more as we speak too.
You can get in touch with him at info@technogravity.com or shah.arpan@ymail.com Phone 022- 66924401 With my reference and take things further as required by the Two of you. Definitely “Something has to be done about it, something substantial” 🙂
Cheers!!!
Darshan Bhambiru
You can also explore more options with Murtaza Amin Sukrut Khambete of MBAkaKeeda.com
Sabarish Sasidharan
Great idea! Something I have been passionate about of late; partially because my son is growing up and its time he started coding 🙂
So what is the game plan like? Are you building a platform like Scratch or a language like SmallBasic or an app like Kodable or an instruction program that uses these? All of these let kids start programming one way or the other.
I would say you could catch them even earlier, probably 2nd to 3rd grade.I would suggest to start with mild visual programming, the likes of Kodable/hopscotch etc.
My son is in the second grade and is 7 yrs old. I first got him the Kodable app to introduce him to programming in the visual route. This allows kids to build programs visually and introduces the basic constructs like decisions, looping, functions etc. Once he was done with all levels of the Kodable app, I got him to SmallBasic/Processing. He is crazy about shapes and animation and both of these allow kids to draw on the screen, with a turtle ala logo of yore. I also got him an Arduino. Though he finds it difficult to write programs from scratch, I can have a template and he will readily augment. For ex, he augmented the simple blink led program of Arduino to make 3 leds blink in a specific pattern.
DEEPAK DUBEY
THIS IS ONE OF D BEST REPLY I GOT, U AWESOMELY ANALYSED MY STARTUP,
btw the game plan is i wan to build a platform like games for kids through which kids will learn coding,working on interactive and animated apps to which can help kids who doesnt afford all this or doesnot have access to computer, i will provide them free books of programming and will teach them 🙂
Wilfred Moraes
Awesome idea coding is a must for the future. Hope you get things going at a very good speed.
Sabarish Sasidharan
Cool. Just a thought, may be in the initial stages you can think of leveraging existing tools, apps and focus your energies more on developing and implementing a method/program that guides kids through the learning stages. With some experience of guiding kids under your belt, you will then have a better understanding of what kids are looking for and how information should be presented so that they like it, assimilate it and indulge in it. You may also find gaps in existing toolsets which you can exploit to fill with your own apps and software. Kids can be difficult customers, they have a lot of distractions to choose from, don’t know what to expect and don’t like being told what to do.
You may also want to define your target audience (as in government schools/private schools/age group/demography) as the way you present and guide would have to change accordingly. Or may be I am just over-complicating it.
Programming is my passion as well. So I am all ears if you are looking for a sounding board or just any kind of assistance in this regard.
Piyush Thakker
Just stumbled upon this article about 2 child prodigies who have already released a few Apple iTunes games and they are aged 14 and 12. Just goes to show how the Gen Z are quick to learn the programming languages when provided with the right guidance.
DEEPAK DUBEY
too old news but yeah u r connecting it good 🙂
DEEPAK DUBEY
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