Devit!

Recently rtraction worked with TechAlliance to put on a webchallenge for elementary and highschool students. We were able to see the very creative and impressive websites that students in both age groups were able to develop. The webchallenge was part of TechAlliance’s IT week, which has helped raise awareness of the world-class IT companies and resources that call London home. This experience remind us how we got into programming and we thought it would be valuable to share some tips to anyone who might be interested.

One great resource that lies right in the city of London is Bit By Bit computer camp. The summer camp is run at the University of Western Ontario in conjunction with their Computer Science Department. One of our developers attended this camp and had great experiences learning new things and meeting new people. (He actually went three years in a row to experience the beginner, intermediate and advanced levels)

Google recently launched a new initiative designed to help get people involved in programming. They have some great tools and resources available at http://code.google.com/edu.

If you have any other tips for young developers, or perhaps an adult who is looking to move into software development, feel free to share your comments with us below.

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