Kohima, June 16 (MExN): YouthNet in partnership with Quest Alliance and Microsoft held a coding boot camp for young coders at the YouthNet center of entrepreneurship as part of the Microsoft YouthSpark initiative in North East Region (Kohima, Nagaland).
The overarching mission of this initiative is to instill the belief and confidence in young people that technology is very much an extension of their agency, and that they can become creators from users in the digital ecosystem.
On the first day, a session on digital literacy, digital footprint, digital citizenship, and rights and responsibilities were covered. On second day, the concepts of programming through Scratch and the YouthSpark MyCode toolkit were shared and the participants designed their own video games. The final day saw text-based programming, specifically in the context of creating websites, hosting, HTML coding.
“The world is moving towards technology enabled services and this is one of the first coding boot camps in the North East of India,” YouthNet stated in a press release. It added that the coders have been assigned project to build websites and apps for local entrepreneurs.
Youth Net shared that there are students who could not attend due to their classes. Therfore, a summer coding programme for kids between the ages of 8 to 15 will be held during the summer break.
