Hey Basile! Great question, that's something that's always on our mind. We do have several mechanisms in place to make sure we are teaching the best skills we can when introducing newcomers to this space.
We work as much as we can with people who have relevant real-world skills or have companies in our industry. Many of my colleagues own businesses in our space or are e.g. consultants who actively work in the web development industry. For me personally, working as a freelancer helps me to keep my skills up to date and to be honest, personal development is something that's high on my priority list.
We also have regular meetings with companies that we would consider to be industry leaders over here in order to continuously fine-tune our curriculum. Sometimes we'll consider organising courses together with e.g. Google or other industry giants, but we've seen mixed results with that.
It's often about finding a balance between teaching more general concepts and languages versus using the latest and hottest new tech. We tend to focus on a healthy mixture of both. A good example would be the JS space, where we definitely value a good understanding of classic javascript over using a hot framework like react. On the other hand, students need to at least know the basics of using such a framework by the time they graduate, which we'll help them with by organising workshops. If we feel like we don't have enough expertise in house to do so, we'll work together with external companies that have lots of expertise in that field.
In the end, it's a lot about finding the right people with the right motivation to teach the new generation and we've been lucky to have found a good team to do just that!
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Considering how things move fast, raise and decay, in this domain, are you not afraid to teach the wrong techs ?
Hey Basile! Great question, that's something that's always on our mind. We do have several mechanisms in place to make sure we are teaching the best skills we can when introducing newcomers to this space.
We work as much as we can with people who have relevant real-world skills or have companies in our industry. Many of my colleagues own businesses in our space or are e.g. consultants who actively work in the web development industry. For me personally, working as a freelancer helps me to keep my skills up to date and to be honest, personal development is something that's high on my priority list.
We also have regular meetings with companies that we would consider to be industry leaders over here in order to continuously fine-tune our curriculum. Sometimes we'll consider organising courses together with e.g. Google or other industry giants, but we've seen mixed results with that.
It's often about finding a balance between teaching more general concepts and languages versus using the latest and hottest new tech. We tend to focus on a healthy mixture of both. A good example would be the JS space, where we definitely value a good understanding of classic javascript over using a hot framework like react. On the other hand, students need to at least know the basics of using such a framework by the time they graduate, which we'll help them with by organising workshops. If we feel like we don't have enough expertise in house to do so, we'll work together with external companies that have lots of expertise in that field.
In the end, it's a lot about finding the right people with the right motivation to teach the new generation and we've been lucky to have found a good team to do just that!