Sibers is always glad to employ recent university graduates as interns. However, we have noticed that despite having strong educational foundations, yesterday’s students often lack practical programming experience.
To solve this, Sibers has teamed up with the American University of Central Asia to create series of courses that give students the opportunity to get practical experience in development.
This autumn, we introduced our first course on programming in Objective-C. Our aim was to create a course for anyone who has a basic understanding of C/C++ and the concepts of object-oriented programming and wants to learn how to develop iOS applications.
Our iOS Developer Dmitry and his students during the lecture
Weekly lectures covered wide range of topics: frameworks and technologies, data types, patterns, networking, multithreading, graphics & animation, data persistence, among others. Practical classes included the actual programming tasks, guided and supervised by our own technical specialists.
Our students at the practical class
From the first of October through mid-December, we held 11 lectures and 12 practical labs. 50 students were in attendance for the first few lectures, but only 11 of them received certificates of excellence. In order to pass the course, students had to attend all lectures and show his or her proficient coding style at practical classes. Three former students will join our team as interns and employees.
Sibers’ first educational experience was a success, and we hope to continue our collaboration with the American University of Central Asia next year. Maybe then we can cover another technology?