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#Laptops4Developers | We support budding developers in Africa with resources (Laptop, Courses, Mentorship && Co-Learning space) to build a career | 💯Non-Profit
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FAQs:
This is all you need to know about getting into
#Laptops4Developers
Question: How can I join
#Laptops4developers
Answer: By registering when registration is open, passing our aptitude test, coding test and passing the physical interview
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REGISTRATION FOR
#Laptops4Developers
cohort 2 IS COMING UP NEXT WEEK.
If you reply to this tweet, we will notify you personally with a link to register.
Registration steps will be announced by
@AdoraNwodo
(We're encouraging more females to apply.)
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Tag a developer and mention their tech fields.
We’ll start👇👇
@techgirl1908
- Java and Automation testing.
@unicodeveloper
- PHP.
@Dayhaysoos
- React Native.
@tlakomy
- React and AWS.
If we get 1k reply, we will pin this so it’ll serve as a reference.
#Laptops4Developers
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Happy Birthday to our founder
@hackSultan
.
Cheers to many more years of building & supporting the Tech Ecosystem in Africa.
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GUYSSSSSS
@jack
donated £5,000 to support
#Laptops4Developers
and the entire team (
@Okoyecb
and
@olagoketobi
) couldn't sleep overnight.
We just kept looking at it.
Thanks a lot for this wonderful support. 😢🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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Registration will be out tomorrow!!!
We will be supporting 50 beginner developers in Africa who can't afford resources with:
A free Laptop, Courses, Mentorship and a Learning environment for 3 months.
Help us reach our target on
@GoFundMeUK
70% done.
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Application for
#Laptops4Developers
Program Cohort 3 is live! 🎉🎉
Use the link below to apply 👇👇👇
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When Angels welcome developers into heaven.
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Is that a cloud hosting?
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1. Register.
2. Pass our assessment.
3. Get assigned to a company that’ll hire you after your traning with us, you’ll use their work space, internet and electricity to learn, but we will be the one traning you.
4. Finish your 3 months, upgrade to paid intern.
5. Upgrade to staff
One of our future plans at
@dev_careers
is INFUSSION.
Immediately you join the program, you’ll be assigned to a company, you’ll get to use their resources like an intern but we will be the one training, after that 3 months, you just resume work in that company as an intern✌️
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For every 10 likes, we’ll tweet a fact about DevCareer.
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With great excitement, we welcome
@kudabank
as a sponsor for
#Laptops4Developers
cohort 2.
Here’s what a welcome pack to DevCareer will look like this year.
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Learning to code can help you japaaa out of this country.
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Just RT and reply with the hashtag
#Laptops4Developers
Let's meet our goal..
Registration for cohort 2 will be out TODAY!!!!
#Laptops4Developers
#Laptops4Developers
#Laptops4Developers
#Laptops4Developers
#Laptops4Developers
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Today, we received the donated laptops from
@MatSilva
here in Nigeria.
This, along all other future donated laptops would be channeled into supporting 50 developers in our
#Laptops4Developers
cohort 3 that’ll come up this year.
Thanks for your support Mat. 🙏🏻🙏🏻
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#Laptops4Developers
We support budding developers in Africa with resources:
Laptop,
Courses,
Mentorship
Subscriptions to Co-Learning space so they can get access to Internet, electricity and a comfortable learning environment to build a career.
💯% Non-Profit
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We see you, liking and retweeting our tweets. Out of the 126million
@twitter
users, you like our tweet, you retweeted our tweet. OUR TWEET
#Laptops4Developers
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DevCareer
#Laptops4Developers
cohort 2 officially ended today.
Time to get these developers into amazing companies.
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We’re super happy to announce our $100,000 grant to bring you
#Laptops4Developers
cohort 3
Led by
@PickPledgesinc
, DevCareer would be training 100 people in Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Zambia and Rwanda for FREE, and giving them all laptops + full support.
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We received the amazing Laptop donation here in Nigeria today.
Thanks a lot
@_marcba
for the wonderful donation and support to
#Laptops4Developers
The laptop would be used to support the career of a budding developer here in Africa.
The Macbook Pro from the December giveaway 🎁 is on it’s way to
@dev_careers
in Nigeria as we speak 🙌🏻
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Over the course of two years, DevCareer has partnered with the following companies to provide FREE Laptops, trainings, and other resources to software engineers in Nigeria,Ghana,Kenya and Zambia.
Thank you
@Revivn
,
@kudabank
,
@GoFundMeUK
,
@peerigon
,
@iSAMS
and
@ouredenlife
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Good news for the day:
One of the female devs in
@dev_careers
cohort 1 Data Science track, that was mentored by
@temiloluwaafape
and
@risingodegua
just joined
@AirtelNigeria
as a Business Intelligence Analyst. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
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We are trying to support 50 developers in our second
#Laptops4Developers
cohort and these are the ways to support us.
1. Donate a Laptops/Course to us
2. Donate to our
@Patreon
:
3. Donate fo
@GoFundMeUK
:
4. RT
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We’ve looked at 127468 future possibilities and not in one didn’t you make it as a software developer.
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PARTNERSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT!
We are excited to announce the
#90DaysOfCode
Challenge in partnership with Progate.
Progate is an online platform for beginners to learn programming. It offers a fully equipped coding environment to learn HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, and more.
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1. Data Science
2. Big Data
3.Entry Level Software Developer
4. AI
5. Internet of things
It's *FREE* and powered by Microsoft
Admission closes by Sept 15 and you must complete your class before Dec 31st as Microsoft is rounding up the platform
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We will be putting an end to our
#Laptops4Developers
cohort 1 today and making an official announcement for our cohort 2💪💪💪💪
Help us say a big thank you to
@iSAMS
and
@Cc_HUB
for the official supports on cohort 1.
We’ll make the announcement today. 🚀🚀
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Happy birthday
@unicodeveloper
We scheduled this post for yesterday, but the date started counting from 0.
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We want to support 20 beginner developers with a
@progateEN
Pro Plan for a month. And we will also give you a 1000 Naira airtime for data.
How to get picked.
1. Be sure you're following us.
2. Reply with why we should pick you using
#Laptops4Developers
3. RT and Like.
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Not to brag but we might give about 10 lucky frontend folks a 6 months subscription to
@FrontendMasters
Courtesy of
@sarah_edo
Wait for itttttttt
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Registration for
#Laptops4Developers
cohort 2 is out.
50 beginners will get access to a
Comfortable learning space,
A great laptop,
Access to all courses on Pluralsight and a
One on one mentorship.
Visit
Or
to APPLY
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We raised over $5000 on
@twitter
which gave 22 people a start in their career, and we're raising over $10,000 to give 50 people a career in tech, all through a tweet.
Maybe not the world, but if we continue to grow, then that should count for something.
#Laptops4Developers
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We mandated that the interns in all 14 hubs of
#Laptops4Developers
Bootcamp end the week with pizza boxes and TGIF vibes😛.
This is how it went:
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If you get into DevCareer, we will sponsor you to attend conferences and meetups, you'll get funds for paid projects that'll help you learn, and stipends for various tasks.
We make use of
@kudabank
, so you might as well create an account now to get your ATM card earlier.
With great excitement, we welcome
@kudabank
as a sponsor for
#Laptops4Developers
cohort 2.
Here’s what a welcome pack to DevCareer will look like this year.
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Question: I'm a beginner, how can I pass your coding test?
Answer: Our test is focused on beginners and we also expect you to have started learning on your own before applying.
And ohhhh. Everything is FREE thanks to
#TechTwitter
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Normalize introducing your younger ones to technology as early as possible.
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The first test just ended.
Coding tests coming up tomorrow.
Candidates whose states qualify will get the coding test link via mail. We will reach out tomorrow.
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If your company is currently hiring
We have few mid-level developers in the following fields.
-Frontend with React
-Backend with NodeJs
-Data science with Python & ML with knowledge of Tensorflow
-Android with Java/Kotlin (intern level)
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We’ve secured a space for Lagos interview. Thanks to
@wennovation
Lagos for providing a space.
100 comments thanking WennovationHub Lagos and we send interview invites for lagos tonight 😂😂😂😂
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KNOWLEDGE is watching tutorials.
EXPERIENCE is actually doing it, failing, and trying again.
But CREATIVITY is when you do it in an amazing way that’s accessible, inclusive and solves a problem.
A shout out to all the creative developers who think of accessibility🙌🏻
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The M in March is for “Making Progress in your tech journey”
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First stage registration for
#Laptops4Developers
is out.
visit :
Go to the ”APPLY” section.
Fill in your from as accurate as possible
Tag others to be aware also and let's use the
#Laptops4Developers
hashtag in the comment section.
💪💪
RT
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The second Assessment for Cohort 3 of
#Laptop4Developers
has been sent out.
Be sure to check your inbox(or spam folder).
Read the instructions carefully.
Deadline: Wednesday, 8th June 2022.
Good Luck
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We are gearing up to begin cohort 3 of
#Laptops4Developers
.
Application ✅
1st Assessment ✅
2nd Assessment ✅
Up next, an in-person interview ....
Big shout out to our partner hubs across Africa.
We are incredibly happy to have you on board.
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Lagos
Ibadan
Abuja
Port Harcourt
Ogun
Lusaka
Mombasa
Kumasi
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Sorting out thousands of candidates who passed the first assessment is taking quite a longer time than expected. We will surely pass the new here when we send out the coding test.
We encourage candidates to learn more about the field they intend to go into.
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Did you know:
Our Chief of
@forloopAfrica
and Big Daddy of
@ouredenlife
started
#Laptops4Developers
cohort 2 with a 1 million naira donation.
Thank you
@unicodeveloper
for the continuous support.
Happy Birthday.
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Go to
Click on "Join our Slack"
Fill the form and wait for approval.
Our slack channel would be a safe space for techies in Africa to learn, get access to opportunities , FREE Courses, Data, Mentorship, laptops and to join
#Laptops4Developers
RT
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Nigeria
Ghana
Kenya
Zambia
You get a FREE Laptop, Course, Mentorship and access to a learning space
If you want us to privately notify you when the next
#Laptops4Developers
registration starts, kindly RT & drop your email in this newsletter form below:
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Happy birthday
@laoye_jnr
Olaoye Idris is a front end developer with good React skills, he has worked on various projects and part of a company's core startup team.
He's available for a frontend role.
Let's get him a Job as a birthday gift.
#Laptops4Developers
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We are thrilled to announce our Partner Hubs for cohort 3 of
#Laptops4Developers
.
What started with a tweet back in 2019 to rally support for devs has grown to accommodate more developers and even designers in 5 African countries!
#Laptops4Developers
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After successfully screening over 7000 applications for the
#Laptops4Developers
cohort 3 we are currently onboarding 100 mentees from 5 different countries in Africa 🥳.
Special thanks to our sponsors and partnering hubs.
#Laptops4Developers
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.
#Laptops4Developers
won’t be in this stage of not for all our amazing donors🙏🏻🙏🏻.
So one of the little ways to show our appreciation. We will be giving out a customized cloth with their handle tagged in.
They’ll choose.
@sarah_edo
,
@TejasKumar_
,
@techgirl1908
+ all donors.
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You think it’s easy to face the camera?
Wait for it 😂😂
We concluded our
#Laptops4Developers
cohort one today with a bang at
@InterswitchGRP
Office in Lagos.
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While about half of our candidates in cohort 1 are now getting paid by various companies to write codes.
We just want to put it here that these folks took and failed various interviews too, lacked experience for lots of jobs also.
But in all, we made sure they kept learning.
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Two CSS properties walk into a bar, but only one got served. Why?
Because it's more important.
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This here is an evidence that the Developer Community is the most supporting and encouraging community ever.
#Laptops4Developers
is a success because of you all, we are but a medium🙏🏻🙏🏻.
Till we roll out application links, start learning the intro in your various fields👌👌
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Wishing you the best
@jack
You’ve been amazing so far🚀🚀
Thanks for your amazing support to
@dev_careers
. We appreciate you.
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We just received another wonderful donation from
@sarah_edo
🙏🙏 Sarah has been our supporter since the whole
#Laptops4Developers
program started, she met and inspired our devs while she was in Nigeria.
We say a big thank you to you, Sarah. Thanks for all you do for us here.
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About to start sending out our sponsorship deck for
@dev_careers
#Laptops4Developers
cohort 3.
We a few companies in mind, if you know any company that’d also love to sponsor, please tag them.
3 months
4 African countries
25 males 25 females
Laptops, courses, mentorship.
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@Dev_careers
in partnership with
@ukngtechhub
is excited to announce the DevCareer Tech Program!
If you are wondering what you would get from the DevCareer Tech Program (DCTP)? Here are some answers to guide you!
1) Access to seasoned trainers and instructors via virtual live
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On our partnership with
@Revivn
to provide support for budding developers in Africa, we're super happy to receive our first batch of hardware support.
And ohhh, these amazing hardwares are 16GB of RAM❤️
#Laptops4Developer
cohort 2 is coming up and we’re open to partnerships.
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Last year, with £5000, we were able to train and provide Laptops, courses, learning space and mentorship to 22 budding developers across 3 states in Nigeria.
This year, we're supporting 50 (25 👩💻25🧑💻) with the same resources again.
Please RT.
Donate:
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This actually works
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Thanks to everyone who nominated us, 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
@_marcba
will be donating his laptop to us🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Merry Christmas 🎊🎊🎊
In the spirit of Christmas 🎄, I'm giving away my used Macbook Pro 13" 🎁 (Limited
@wesbos
stickers included)
I am looking for someone who seeks to become a web developer and cannot afford a computer.
📣 Mention someone who needs this.
More details 👇
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This test will be available for 48 hours, so we advise you to take your time on this as the form will be available till 11:59PM 3rd of February 2020.
You'll have 15minutes to take this test immediately you click START, and please make sure to have a good internet connection.
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Over 1000 people missed their aptitude test last week, the major reason was:
A lot of people don't check their emails regularly.
We've sent out emails to people who passed the aptitude test in
Lagos, Abuja, Oyo, Ogun, Rivers, Lusaka, Mombasa & Kumasi.
Please, check your mail.
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Happy international women’s day 🤗🤗🤗🤗
[alt:
@sarah_edo
with some of our female developers in
#Laptops4Developers
cohort 1 at
@ConcatenateConf
]
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Are you looking to start a tech career in web development or learn a new language as part of your goal for the year?
Here's an opportunity for you 👇👇
#DevCareerXProgate
#90DaysOfCode
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Question: When will registration be open and how will I know?
Answer: We are still in our fundraising stage so we can't say when registration will be out, as this is a publicly funded program.
Question: How will I know when it's time to register?
Answer: We will announce it
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Today marks 2 months since we started
#Laptops4Developers
cohort 1.
Devs can now take their various laptops home now.
The learning continues.💪💪💪💪
Thanks
@iSAMS
(Gold sponsor)
Thank you
@Cc_HUB
Thank you
@impacthublagos
Thank you
@wennovation
Thank you
@Hub67nigeria
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5 of our junior devs in training at
@Cc_HUB
Lagos.
These folks have gotten so comfortable learning remotely without supervision, now imagine them working remotely 💪💪💪💪
Thanks to everyone supporting us.
#Laptops4Developers
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After 2 years of processing this, we’re glad to announce that our Non-Profit 501(c) certification of
@dev_careers
(DevCareer) is now available.
We’re currently active in Kenya, Zambia, Ghana and Nigeria.
Thanks a lot for your support!!!
#Laptops4Developers
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Question: What programming language will the coding test be in?
Answer: The test are to test your fundamental skills and each section will contain different languages, you’ll be tested based on your chosen field
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We should have a once in a year conference where companies and top devs come with their old and recycled laptops, then non-profits make a pitch publicly for these devices.
So you're either there to give out a laptop or to get one because you can't afford it.
Is this possible?
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If you registered for
#Laptops4Developers
cohort2.
We've just sent out the first aptitude test, Kindly check your email.
Wishing you lots of luck...
We're yet to meet our
@gofundme
target so please help us
Or on
@patreon
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15
@pluralsight
subscriptions left.
If you have a laptop and you know you need this, and would make very good use of it.
Let's know. 💪💪💪
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Glad to announce to the tech community that we have gotten support from
@MrAhmadAwais
to a total course value of $14,900 for
#Laptops4Developers
.
🙌 Developers from our second and third cohort will benefit from this.
❯❯ Follow
@MrAhmadAwais
for dev tips with
#OneDevMinute
.
🔥 For every retweet, I'll donate USD 149 masterclass to students!
Instead of wasting 💰 on marketing my course — I want to give it away for free to students in Africa 🇳🇬🇰🇪 via
@hackSultan
's
#Laptops4Developers
!
#CodeNewbie
@Code
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To partner with a great learning platform and provide a very discounted learning code to the thousands of people who applied to
#Laptops4Developers
but didn't get in?
Something like cutting the price for people we wouldn't pick to $3 or 1000 Naira.
Would you like this?
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REGISTRATION IS OUTTT
#Laptops4Developers
was built to support most developers who code on their mobile phones, here's a video that talks about the why we're doing this and
WELCOME to Cohort 2...
The registration link is in the video. Take your time!
New video alert 💃🏻
@hackSultan
& I talked about reasons you should not use your phone to learn to code. We also talked about
@dev_careers
and the latest
#Laptops4Developers
cohort.
If you want to apply, we shared the link on the video.
Please share :)
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Growth 🚀🚀🚀
2019 - we did 22 people.
2020 - we did 50 people.
2022 - we’re doing 100 people 🚀🚀
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PARTNERSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT!!📢📢
Remember when we said we had something exciting for Data lovers? The wait is over.
We're thrilled to announce our partnership with
@dataquestio
.
This partnership provides data science enthusiasts access to premium learning resources at no cost.
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We train on Frontend, Backend, Data science and Mobile. Developers can only join one track at a time.
@hackSultan
@dev_careers
Didn't know this included Data Science. I'd be totally down for that.
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Just one of the things we do in
#Laptops4Developers
[ 2 of the team members presenting their final project in our cohort 1 ]
Devs:
@laoye_jnr
&
@meetKazuk1
Location:
@InterswitchGRP
office Lagos.
Mentors:
@the_beye
,
@chrisblakely01
,
@nedyudombat
&
@bytenaija
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Heads up, if you're waiting for our registration, here’s a cheat into getting into
#Laptops4Developers
cohort 2, Frontend track.
#####
Learn as best as you can from
@freeCodeCamp
#####
A lot of our test questions will come from here.
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@dev_careers
in partnership with
@ukngtechhub
is pleased to announce that application into the DevCareer Tech Program is now live!
Apply today to begin your journey into getting launched into the Tech industry➡️
‼️Deadline for applications: Friday 14th,
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John just accepted an offer to join an amazing team as a Frontend developer.
Congratulations John.
Thank you
#techtwitter
I am using this special moment to announce to the world that I have completed my 3 months
#Laptops4developers
internship
@dev_careers
organized by
@hackSultan
to support the budding developers in Africa. I wanna start by thanking
@hackSultan
himself for this...
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