Google, the search engine giant by the collaboration with computer programming school General Assembly, planning to make the number of Android developers in this era of technology. Education Startup General Assembly, will offer a $70 million of funding to offer an impressive course on Android development.
This is the full time crash course of about 12 weeks and will start offering from the next year in NYC (January) and San Francisco (February). The companies will expand their boot camp program to the other campuses as the year passes on. The cost for this crash course is expected to be around $13,500, which can be financed. This partnership is supposed to be an important, as the Google and GA work together to train the developers in line with their principles.
General Assembly, Cofounder and CEO Jake Schwartz cited “tremendous demand” for app developers and says “Developing this course in partnership with Google allows us to provide students with the most relevant skills, ensuring a reliable pipeline of talented developers ready to meet the urgent demand of companies in the Android ecosystem. Android is growing, and because there aren’t nearly enough developers trained for that system, it's causing a bottleneck for the platform ” They’ll probably help crank out some new employees for Alphabet’s Google too.
As per the reports by the General Assembly released in September, the demand of Android developers has increased up to 150% over the past five years.
In the crash course boot camp, which will take its first student early by the next year, starts accepting the applications from today, signals a change how technology companies view the qu8alifications its developers need, said Schwartz. "Universities typically don't train students the same way, and with the same timeline, as we do."
Google and General Assembly are enticing to the course with the promise of assuring job placement opportunities. Director of Mobile Applications at VICE Media, Ben Jackson said that, VICE Media will hire an apprentice right out of the course. The General Assembly in an another statement said that, it will connect developers who finish the course with jobs in its hiring network, including data company Karma. "When students take the course and graduate, they're not just getting a piece of paper," said Peter Lubber, senior program manager at Google. "They're getting a job."
