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.