Game changer of programming- Coding Blocks

The software industry in India is touted as one growing by leaps and bounds, and one providing the highest number of jobs and decent to upscale salary packages.

But alarmingly, there is a downside to this projected feel good progress. The same industry seems to be failing to equip scholars with the required programming skills.

The duo, Ankush and Anushray, while being actively involved in recruiting for Facebook, along with teams coming to India to recruit from the Indian Institute of Technology of Delhi (IIT-D), started having sleepless nights after getting a reality check about how a majority of people are still clueless about programming as an add value to their education.

The realization that students are equally troubled by existing flaws in the education system and were keen to learn more, prompted Ankush, a code enthusiast and Anushray, a technology lover, to pool their resources and vision to train and create software developers and entrepreneurs who could shape the future of our country.

This double act resulted in the birth of 'Coding Blocks' where incubators bridge unfilled gaps between the qualities demanded by the industry and quality of skills imparted by conventional institutes.

"The technology has been ever evolving unlike the education system that has remained unchanged over years. At Coding Blocks, we thrive to increase a students' interest by providing hands on practical training on every concept taught in the class room. This has a two fold advantage- to help people learn who are struggling to do so and then recruiting them," said Ankush.

" 'Coding Blocks' has two special things: people teaching here and their way of teaching. The way teachers teach here is dissimilar to the market. Their method loads the student with confidence to actually do things," he added.

He said that the software industry pays well, wants to incentivize people and teaching gives us kick.

"To our surprise people from non-IT background/field have been enrolling themselves in large numbers. In six months, more than 200 students have enrolled and have been placed in bigwigs. They work on abstract and interesting ideas," said Ankush.

The upcoming batch to commence from December 10 is already full, and the subsequent batch, which is scheduled to embark in February, has 15 students on the waiting list.

Coding Blocks believes in creating confident developers who think beyond industrial jobs and match their ideas with self -created entrepreneurship ventures. Not only this, along with training students with the latest technologies and programming languages, they also connect them to software companies via a placement assistance program.

As a validation of their success, IIIT-Delhi has hired people from 'Coding Blocks'. They also plan to expand their office after being compared with some major market players, such as NIIT.

The Coding Blocks has a powerful package of Pandora (Android App Development), Elixir (Web Development using Python), Final Step (Interview Preparation Course), Crux (Foundation Course in Java) and Launchpad (Foundation course in C++).

The engineer-turned teachers were students of Manmohan Gupta, a serial entrepreneur, co- founder and mathematics teacher at Vidyamandir classes, and also the co- founder and Head of Engineering at Nagarro Softwares.