Dive Brief:
- Bloomberg’s browser-based coding platform CodeCon is being recognized beyond the public coding competitions it sponsors weekly and seen for its value in the classroom.
- CodeCon gives users specified periods of time and memory constraints to write their code, which creates a standardized coding environment for students on college campuses and gives professors additional metrics to evaluate.
- As CodeCon is a browser-based e-learning platform, colleges without the internal capacity to expand coding instruction can also turn to the platform for universal accessibility.
Dive Insight:
Knowing how to write code is a marketable skill for an increasing number of industries. Coding positions continue to exceed the supply of trained professionals and traditional schools have added capacity as independent "coding bootcamps" have sprung up to fill the gap. A Course Report survey recently estimated 16,000 students will graduate from coding bootcamps in 2015. The Obama administration’s TechHire initiative, announced in March, made $100 million in grants available, some of which have gone to fund these intensive trainings that graduate students within just weeks or months. CodeCon is one more way program leaders can get coding skills to students.