Exploring the Future of Coding Education for Nigerian Youth
In recent years, coding education has emerged as a key driver in empowering Nigerian youth to join the digital economy. With the rapid growth of technology and increasing global demand for software skills, Nigerian educators, startups, and government bodies are pioneering innovative approaches to teaching coding. This dynamic shift not only promises to enhance technical […]
Coding Myths In Nigeria
Computer programming is an important part of today’s society: it drives innovations and inventions in areas of medicine, automation, and other fields. However, for many people, the idea of coding seems to be far removed from their daily lives. With little knowledge or interest in computer programming, it may seem impossible to learn how […]
Websites We Love: CodeSpark Nigeria
CodeSpark is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) that’s teaching children how to code. It’s working with the stated aim of bridging Nigeria’s tech gap by equipping boys and girls with the programming skills they will need to thrive in tomorrow’s world. Read more about Websites we love In recent years, there’s been a growth in […]
10-Year Old Emmanuella Becomes Coding Tutor In The UK
Nigerians are not having a great time right now if you focus on the Hushpuppi newsreel but there is more to our people, good things. Take, for instance, the fact that Nigerians everywhere so often turn up the heat in achievements especially in educational achievements and this time we really took it up a […]
Websites We Love: Disha
In this day and age, every business owner knows the importance of a website no matter their field. Having a business website is a huge factor when it comes to clients deciding to work with you or not. This is because it adds an aura of professionalism to your business and communicates to clients […]
Favour Ori: The 23 Year Old Tech Whiz Who Sold an App for ₦22 Million
Imagine Favour Ori six years ago. He’s just another teenager living in urban Nigeria— wading through rowdy markets, hanging out with friends, and exploring his neighbourhood alleys in a football jersey top. You could have brushed past him on one of those streets without batting an eyelid. Fast forward to March 2020. Favour is at […]
Coding And Robotics Program For Children With Special Needs And Their Peers
Special. The word ‘special’ has always meant something different, unique, and distinctive in some ways or more. In every society, there are some special people who live among us and these individuals are termed such because they are different from others in their own way yet still require most of what others do. The may […]
Start Your Coding Career With Start.Ng
This month I have talked so much on starting a tech career and I have shared tips on a non-techie guide to starting a career in coding and the ultimate learn by doing tip where I iterated the need to practice whatever you are learning as that is the fastest way to become an expert […]
Register For The Awka Hack Week Coding Bootcamp For Beginners
Problems exist in every society and this is usually in droves. However, the kind of problem experienced by society is commensurate with how developed it is. Solving a problem we see in our nation and community is not cut out for the seemingly rich or those who society tag as “well-made”. Rather, the more positive […]
Five Common Misconceptions About Working In Tech
People who work in tech seem to be like the cool dudes, dressing informally or in casual formal styles to meet new clients and investors and generally a career path for just a selected few. However, this has been proven to be NOT true. In fact, people from different walks of life, age, gender, background […]
Apply For The HNG Internship For Beginners And Intermediary Developers
Talent is never enough! There is a common saying that talent is never enough and where the talented do not work hard, hard work would beat talent. This statement has been proven true in many respect irrespective of race, social standing, income, educational background and every other socio-economic characteristic used to categorize humans. As such, […]
Zone Tech Park – Solving Africa’s Grandest Challenges
Still on the series of the month–Coding/Programming Startups, I will be sharing some information about an African focused startup with the sole mission of solving Africa’s grandest challenges. Stay with me as we delve a little deeper into what they do, how they do it and the motivating factor for their actions. Launched on July […]
Digital Skills In Demand By Tech Companies
As more traditional job roles are being replaced by Machines and Artificial Intelligence (AI), more job roles are opening up that were unheard or unnamed before. Tech companies, and indeed all organizations in the digital economy, are coming to realise that a company full of specialists is not an ideal situation. It is more important than […]
5 Reasons You Should Consider Working With A Tech Company
A few years ago, the word tech was synonymous to programming, coders and geeks, those with thick round glasses and generally looked uncool. Today, that narrative is changing and more and more sectors of the economy are adopting tech into their products and services. The world is generally tech ruled and it keeps developing, not […]
Andela Launches Power Of X Campaign To Attract Midlevel And Senior Software Engineers Into Andela
As more companies seek to enhance their technology teams via distributed workforces, Andela, also looking into scaling its operations, and meeting the global growing demand for software developers, launched a new campaign themed Power of X. This campaign was born out of the need to expand the company’s business model. recruits mid and senior level […]
Did You Know? The First Widely Used Programming Language Was Fortran
Fortran is a general-purpose, compiled imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. It was the first commercially available programming language and was the first widely used high level general purpose programming language to have a functional implementation, as opposed to just a design on paper. It was first developed in 1954 but its first manual appeared in 1956 by […]