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Well, you know, I'm 64 year old, so I've had a long professional career more than 40 years, 42 years now. And I've done a lot of things in my life Now that I am devoting my time toe beacon code Academy. This comes from the very beginning. I started my professional career in the early eighties and with a couple of friends we found it, uh, a company where we develop financial software here in the Spain That time many years ago, Spain was, let's say, not under developed, that developed country bet not as modern or developers in Mason today. And when we started in this first wave off technology toe implement financial systems in companies I e. Don't realize that learning was a fundamental piece to really make change happening in corporations. And since then on, I have always been interested in learning. After that, the company was sold toe are for Anderson that this Formula American company that dis pleaded in tow our for Andersen and Andersen Consulting and Andersen Consulting afterwards became at center, and when I joined under Andersen Consulting, I participated in a project with Northwestern University that was called the Institute for the Running Sciences, and I had the opportunity there to meet excellent cognitive scientists and learning teachers and people that really did a very sound research about how technology could help learning. And since then on I I really decided that this part off the eso learning was my my passion and how to help people to learning fix. And five years ago, when this idea of the code academy started, I decided decided to start one here in Europe, and that's why you become was born.
Yeah, so we offered to times, of course, is one line is a software development over engineering, and the other one is data analytics and machine learning and big data. Right? So there are the toe light and the courses are very intensive. It's a deep dive into the field. We have a very special methodology that was developed in civil for the Learning Sign 40 years ago, and it's been developed farther over this period of time and we don't have lectures. So we have projects. Is project based learning by doing? And the students really work in real life situations, similar simulation of real life situations. So they are really working as a professional from the minute one. But they you start with simple task and simple projects, and as the the time moves on on, the time goes by and then they are in the program. The projects and the task were becoming more increasingly complex, right, and the two programs last for five month full time, so it's 800 hours very intensive. It's everyday from Monday to Friday to Friday from 9 to 7, and and basically is that I mean, it's a very deep dive, very intensive, very demanding, 100% practical
well in this case is the question is very simple and very common sense. So we talked to industry specialists, and since our programs are aimed to provide a job to the student, basically so our students or career changers there are people that they already have a university degree. It's between. They are between 24 35 year old. They have most off them some work experience, and what they want is to change their career because they have now a job that doesn't fulfill the Earth aspirations and they want to movinto technology. So we visit mind, and we we talked to the the companies that will hire them when when they finished. And we asked him every simple question. What are these skills? A junior person that you would hire? They should have. So when we work from this back, I mean, if a person has to know how to do and we have a list off skills that are required to get a entry level job in beating sovereign development or in Data Analytics and then we create the content, so make sure that a person working hard for this five months really master these skills and get a job