Applications call for SuaCode Africa Programming Course 2020 for Young Africans. SuaCode Africa 2.0 is a smartphone-based online course to teach coding to Africans with little or no programming experience. And for the first time, the program will be in both English and French. Candidates would need an Android smartphone to take part in this course.

SuaCode Africa 2.0 will run for 8 weeks from 1st May 2020 – 1st July 2020. Learners will have to commit 3-5 hours a week, submit assignments each week, and complete the course within this period. As a result, do not apply for this cycle if you cannot commit this amount of time. Candidates need to have an Android smartphone and an interest to learn to code.

Benefits

• Learners that complete this 8-week online course will receive a certificate and those that complete assignments with outstanding performance and proactively help other learners on the course forum will have mentoring sessions with professionals from tech companies such as Google and Facebook.
• Candidates will learn basic coding concepts (such as variables, conditionals, functions) while building a mobile game in the process — pong game. They will also get a certificate after completing and if they do exceptionally well, candidates will get the opportunity to have a mentoring session with an Africa professional at Google.
• In addition, female applicants accepted into SuaCode Africa 2.0 will be admitted into Nsesa Foundation’s  STEM WOW Mentoring program where they will have an exclusive mentoring session with one of our STEM WOWs — an inspirational African woman in STEM.

Additional Details

The application deadline is Thursday, 30, April 2020 at 11:59 GMT, and acceptances will be sent out the next day, 1st May 2020. Accepted students will have 3 days to confirm their acceptance otherwise their spot will be made available to another person on the waitlist. Therefore regularly check the email you provide in the application form and also follow our Facebook pages to see the post updates on the program.