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Coding Courses

If you’re looking to kickstart your career with the 21st Century skills that are fast becoming the keys to success in widely varied industries, you’ve probably considered that it’s time to learn to code – but the number of IT courses Cape Town, South Africa and the world have to offer, in person and online, can be overwhelming. If you’re weighing up your options, start with considering what coding courses actually involve, whether programming courses are for you, and what you’d like to do with the skills that time spent in code school can give you.

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What do programming courses entail?

Programming courses can take any number of forms, depending on what skills you’d like to acquire, and how much time you have to devote to your code school. Of all the IT courses Cape Town has to offer, CodeSpace’s code courses allow learners to gain a wide range of skills in a comparatively short stretch of time: an 18-week full-stack web developer course teaches students all of the basics from problem-solving to internet architecture, responsive web design, Javascript fundamentals, PHP, AJAX, hosting, deployment and more. For an even quicker kickstart to your coding education, we offer a four-week programme that answers fundamental coding questions and gives students a taste of tech in the form of data structures, algorithms, debugging, and front-end frameworks. It’s ideal for absolute beginners, and you’ll learn to code a website using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

For younger learners, our programming courses focus on robotics: an engaging, tangible way to communicate the power of code to bring ideas to life. From this base, it’s easy to build on robotics knowledge as students learn to code with other coding languages. Whatever the course structure and content, we plan our education around three key pillars – coding, social innovation and career and life skills – so you’ll be sure to gain a well-rounded experience that open your eyes to the possibilities that the industry has to offer, and what you have to offer to society with your newly developed skills.

Code courses for who?

Wondering what skills and personality traits you need to succeed at code courses or even in IT careers? Happily, there aren’t any hard and fast rules: despite what you might have been told, it isn’t necessary to excel at maths or have a natural ability for tech in order to master coding. What you do need is an interest in tech and what makes it work, as well as the persistence, patience and attention to detail that’ll allow you to keep going when code school gets challenging.

Of course, you do need to be available for the duration of the courses – we’re a coding school that uses blended learning, which means that your in-person presence is important as well as the tasks you’ll complete online. You’ll also need to be computer literate, have a good English proficiency, and be curious about coding.

By the way, there’s no right or wrong age to learn to code: we offer code courses for high schoolers to those well into their adult years, and believe that we’re a code school able to teach complete beginners or make a valuable contribution to the skillsets of those already established in IT careers. We’re you’re looking for full-time programming courses or can only devote a few hours a week to acquiring tech skills, you can find an option that suits your lifestyle and schedule.

Students working on coding course project on their laptops

What do code courses enable me to do?

For many, the aim of taking programming courses is to open up job opportunities: with the Fourth Industrial Revolution upon us, it’s clear that “Learn to code” is solid career advice not for those interested in IT careers, but also for all manner of industries embracing the power of the tech. When you learn to code, you’ll learn to build a website, but code school will also give a well-rounded look at the ways in which tech is transforming so many of the industries that are thriving today.

Interestingly, coding might equip you for the workplace in ways reach far beyond what it’ll allow you to build and create: when you learn to code with CodeSpace, you’ll learn to grasp concepts like design thinking, which in turn increase your capacity for problem-solving and innovative planning. Another way of looking at it is that technological innovation has a language all of its own, and that language is code. When you learn to code, you become fluent in a language of the future.

Of course, some begin programming courses with a very specific project in mind: an app to build, a website to design, or an innovative product that needs coding to bring it to life. If you want to learn to code for a very specific purpose like this, we’d be happy to talk you through the code courses that would be best-suited to your plans and ambitions.

Is coding and programming IT?

IT stands for Information technology and is the study or use of computing systems and how they are used to store, manipulate and retrieve data.

Coding is a very large component of IT and enables someone to control computers and to tell them exactly how they wish to manipulate information.

So Yes! Coding and programming is very much related to IT

What will you learn in an IT course?

The IT courses at CodeSpace are focused on coding and programming.

You will learn to:

  • Create dynamic, responsive webpages using HTML & CSS
  • Learn how to use programming languages to manipulate data
  • Think like a problem solver
  • Understand how technologies speak to one another

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