BAGUIO CITY – Some twenty three students enrolled in the first-ever Baguio Boot Camp that aims to teach students with zero knowledge on coding and turn them to become junior developers in just six months.
Ace Estrada II, VIVIXX Academy president and Calle Uno managing director, said the first Baguio Boot Camp will start on June 1 with the 23 enrolees that comes from the cross section of society in the country and even overseas.
Of the enrolees, he revealed that 3 of them are foreigners, a Korean, a Japanese and an American, and most of them are from other parts of the country with mixed ages. Some of them are 18 years of age who opted to do the Boot Camp instead of going to college while some are professionals wanting to have a career change. A couple of the participants are Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) wanting to come home and earn from home by becoming coders in the future.
Estrada noted the foreign students find it appealing that they can work anywhere around the world when they graduate from the Boot Camp.
The Boot Camp is a partnership between VIVIXX Academy of Baguio and Coder Factory Academy of Australia and that the said academy is the only accredited Boot Camp in the said country which has contractual affiliations with up to a hundred Australian information technology companies needing coders.
He added the Boot Camp is the way to fill the growing demand for coders considering that interested companies will hire the graduates of the Boot Camp the moment they graduate which is its value proposition considering that there is a guaranteed remote internship with the Australian companies and the reasonable assurance of a job after graduation.
Trent Shields, who was in the city several months ago, will be the Boot Camp’s head teacher and he will be arriving next month to teach the camp. Trent is a so-called software architect which means that he is at the very top of the information technology profession, earning hundreds of thousands of dollars every year for what he does.
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In July, another Australian teacher, Jamie Cerexhe, will be flying in to teach in the Boot Camp and the two Australian teachers will be assisted by VIVIXX Academy coding teachers.
Estrada explained a Boot Camp is a military style training program that brings civilians to fitness and readiness levels in only a short time and it was applied to coding because students with zero coding knowledge are taught to become junior developers in just a few months.
According to him, the idea is that anyone can learn to code without being spoon fed but instead, they are taught to teach themselves by finding the resources they need online and with the said strategy, the students will never go back to school again to learn new languages that come along.
He claimed the students can learn on their own which is a perpetual learning system and they are expected to be adepth in Java Script and Ruby and Rails. After the said camp.
“We guarantee a one month remote internship with an Australian company towards the end of the Boot Camp. By this time, they would be hireable coders. They have two paths after graduation, to become gainfully employed coders, or to become tech entrepreneurs or start up founders,” Estrada stressed.
By HENT
