India's Kid Coders Lead Online Education During Covid-19
October 28, 2020
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as posted by the channelThe switch to remote learning during the coronavirus pandemic is feeding demand for programming lessons. Online coding classes for elementary school students were taking off in India even before the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated the shift to online learning.
Behind the boom is demand from parents who think knowledge of programming is as essential as writing and arithmetic, and who fret over keeping their homebound kids productive during the crisis.India, which boasts the world’s largest pool of computer science grads and a large, low-cost English-speaking workforce, is uniquely positioned to build an industry out of one-on-one coding lessons, says Larry Illg, chief executive officer of Prosus Ventures.
Coding startup WhiteHat Jr. was acquired by Byju’s for $300 million in August. The Mumbai-based outfit has 120,000 paying users, half of them outside India, predominantly in the U.S., where it began offering classes early this year.
WhiteHat Jr. has an all-female teaching force of 12,000. Appetite for its services is so strong that it’s adding as many as 250 teachers on a single day. Its 8-hour beginner package teaches coding fundamentals, the 48-hour plan helps kids build a working app, and the 144-hour package goes all the way up to programming for space simulations, such as plotting an astronaut’s trajectory to Mars or creating virtual models of black holes.
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