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Reviewpad secures pre-seed investment to support further development of its innovative AI-driven Code review tool and expand its operational team. Great news for Reviewpad, the platform that helps developers by automating the code review process, with the announcement that it has raised a €1M pre-seed round. The investment was led by Shilling VC with participation from angel investors...
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Want to become a programming powerhouse? Follow these insider tips and you can do just that... You know the drill. You've spent countless hours honing your programming skills. And yet, sometimes you find yourself wondering how to break through to the next level. Well, worry no more. Today, we're diving into 7 insider tips that will help you supercharge your programming abilities. Ready for a ri...
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Cypher, the EdTech startup that's teaching children how to code in a creative and fun way, through themed coding camps... With the likes of Erase All Kittens, we have written before about startups that are helping children get ready for a future that is digital. Supposedly, jobs that don’t even exist yet will employ 65% of today’s schoolchildren thanks to the rate at which techno...
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The London based startup, Erase All Kittens, that's created a game that inspires children to code and teaches professional programming skills. Yes, we know you want to rush through the opening to see if the titular kittens are okay, so we’ll make it short. Our world is ever more reliant on technology. Our own articles have detailed how even things like farming, house building, and gett...
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The startup that's teaching coding by enabling children to control real life robots remotely... We all know that robots are going to have a huge impact on industry in the future, therefore it’s more important than ever that our children learn all they can now about robotics. Of course, prohibitive costs and indeed location has meant that this is often beyond the reach of many children or in...
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Codez Academy understands that computer science has become as relevant a subject as Maths and English. Here's how they aim to empower the young people of Wales to embrace the world of code and coding.  While most ICT courses give a basic overview on computer use, Codez Academy's goal is to really get into the heart of it and teach young people how to build computer programmes, not just how t...
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Learning a new skill is an excellent exercise in self-improvement. The internet has now made it possible for anyone to learn just about anything that they put their mind to. There are a myriad of skills and knowledge out there, just waiting for you to take the initiative and look them up. Not only will learning new skills help you with your self-confidence and give you something positive to focus ...
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On the heels of our article about Pip, the handheld device that encourages children to learn coding, we have another programming-related startup to share. When children are inspired to learn coding and discover a passion for it, they may very well grow up wanting to code for a living. Knowing how to code and actually being good at coding - good enough to work in a company as a programmer - are two...
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In a world that revolves around computers as much as the sun, interest in coding is not what it could be. People - particularly children - want to play the games made by coding, use the phones that programming makes possible, and try to get around the programming that stops Siri swearing; they’re less interested in actually learning the if() statements and the...you know, the other ones that...
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Startacus co-founder, Alastair Cameron pondered on this very point on LinkedIn last week, and so we thought wise to continue to ask the question. Should Computer Science be made mandatory at GCSE level as a qualification? In the UK, there were apparently more than 5 million GCSE entries across all subjects in 2017, and of those Computing / ICT made up only 67,800 of those entri...
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