Dmytro Vezhnin, Co-founder, CodeGym, sincerely believes that anybody can grow to be a Java developer even with no CS diploma or years of expertise in IT.
He got here to this conclusion empirically. With a decade of expertise as a Java programmer, Dmytro was requested to assist his youthful sister to change her profession path to IT. And he accepted the problem. After 1.5 years of coaching, she received a job supply that was 5 occasions her earlier wage. Her success motivated Dmytro to take this ahead and begin instructing his pals in mini-groups. There have been increasingly individuals who needed to review, and Dmytro may not cope on his personal. Thus, the thought of making a course was born.
Quickly, he launched a program for an internet course, stop his job, and fashioned a staff to start out CodeGym. Dmytro started engaged on the course and fashioned a staff in 2012, and the corporate went world in 2018. At the moment, CodeGym has greater than 10 years of expertise in instructing Java.
Dmytro Vezhnin, Co-founder and CEO and Alex Yelenevych, co-founder and CMO
Like an actual college
Dmytro, together with Alex Yelenevych, CodeGym’s co-founder and CMO, launched their first product, a self-paced Java course. In 10 years and with over two million college students from greater than 40 nations, it turned a serious success. The staff made all attainable enhancements to the course and puzzled easy methods to make the product much more helpful. After detailed analysis, the staff realised that self-learning isn’t for everybody – folks wish to study from folks. Some college students expertise issues with retaining their motivation excessive, and so they’d favor a extra personalised strategy. This concept appeared good, and CodeGym began to develop it.
Additionally, market analysis reveals that universities alone can not meet the demand for IT specialists, particularly in a rustic like India, which is a world chief in IT outsourcing. This led to the creation of CodeGym’s Java College, the place skilled mentors and practising programmers educate college students of varied ages and backgrounds.
At CodeGym’s Java University, mentors information college students on the theoretical and sensible elements of Java to assist them get positioned as Java builders. By signing up for Java College, college students get all the advantages of the self-paced course together with mentor help, a pleasant neighborhood, and a coaching platform to upskill their presentability and interview expertise. And most significantly, CodeGym affords a 100% assure that each one the graduates will get a job.
“In our firm, all of us agree that programming is a ability, like using a bicycle. You might want to experience it to study. Likewise, you have to practise coding. You may’t study it simply by watching lectures or studying books. Follow is the one means,” added Alex. However why the title ‘CodeGym’? Answering this query, Alex famous, “College students ‘work out’, like in a fitness center, to construct their coding ‘muscle tissue’; therefore the title CodeGym.”
Why now’s the correct time to study Java
Java is among the hottest trendy programming languages which permits the creation of advanced applications and functions, utilized by nearly each IT firm. With the rising demand for Java programmers, Java builders have grow to be some of the well-paid professions within the IT world. In India, Java builders may earn as much as Rs 20 lakh every year.
Secondly, with Java being extensively used for Android growth, cloud tasks, digital actuality, growth instruments, sport growth and robotics, healthcare gadgets, Java builders are more and more rising in demand. The startup market in India is rising too, and the financial system is actively digitalising. Due to this fact, firms expertise an enormous scarcity of execs.
And final however not least – a Java programmer has a lot of choices. Server-side functions for finance and large information want Java. Android applications, net functions, embedded methods, and scientific functions want Java, too.
Clarifying false notions about studying Java programming, Dmytro stated, “Many individuals assume solely geniuses can grow to be programmers. It is a false impression that we wish to repair. Programming is a ability. With the correct coaching program and the help of skilled mentors, anybody can grow to be a developer.” He added that many CodeGym college students began from scratch and are already working for firms like Google, Microsoft, Tata, to call a number of.
Moreover providing a 100% job assure, CodeGym supplies college students with profession consultations and profession steering services. To make job-hunting simple for college students, CodeGym companions with firms like Ola, TIAA, Durafit, and others.
What CodeGym’s Java College affords
Java College is a year-long program that mixes all the advantages of the self-paced course with further options like reside periods with lecturers, mentor help, and a job supply assure. College students can even clear their doubts and queries by the platform’s Slack channel. As a part of small-group on-line lessons on Zoom, lecturers clarify new theoretical subjects to college students, analyse homework assignments, and reply questions.
‘’I used to be very fearful of Java as a result of I could not perceive its syntax, idea, or easy methods to code. After this course, I can now say I do know Java and may do codes on it. I’m now in a position to perceive the advanced coding issues,” stated Ayroti, a CodeGym College scholar.
Not like different academic platforms, CodeGym’s self-paced course is designed with a gamified strategy, and has a storyline with jokes and heroes.” The platform affords an interactive on-line simulator with auto-check services and a “digital mentor” that checks the finished duties in seconds and assesses the leads to a really fast turnaround time – making studying simple, quick, and interesting.
“We’re greater than only a course: a lot of our college students keep in the neighborhood even after commencement. So, present college students can flip to extra skilled colleagues for recommendation on nearly any subject – from fixing coding duties to getting ready for a job interview,” added Alex.
The trail to the way forward for coding
To grow to be a number one participant within the IT edtech sector, CodeGym is actively growing its outsourcing enterprise, launching merchandise in new markets, making a product for colleges in america, planning to introduce new programs alongside its Java University, and have not too long ago added a course on Android.
Speaking about their future plans, Alex stated, “I believe in 5 years, our outsourcing firm will grow to be fairly massive (we purpose for 10,000 – 15,000 builders), skilled academic tasks can have skilled 300,000+ builders, and our platform for colleges within the USA will maintain 10-15 % of the market, i.e., in each sixth US college there shall be lecturers and college students utilizing our platform.”
