Programming Classes

Class Description

At Ayoka Systems, we believe any student who can read can be taught software programming. And, like any language, it’s better to start when you’re young!

The best part about software is how it includes so many different interests. Art, music, video production and gaming are just a few of the ways people are part of the software community – with fancy job titles such as graphics designer, music composer, video producer or game designer. Sign up for this unique class taught by people who actually work in software and can teach you programming the way they wished they’d learned it.

Students will get hands on coding experience in creating their own web pages showing off stuff that they find interesting. They will learn essential terms used in software, such as HTML programming, the concept of a CSS and an IDE. These might sound like Greek, but after this course, your kids will know more than you!

This programming course is taught and mentored by our experienced technology employees who currently work in software development at Ayoka Systems. Our instructors know how to connect the diverse talents needed to work in programming and share the lessons they wish they had early in life. Students will learn the structure of opening and closing tags in HTML to 3-tier architecture, so they can learn programming, which is becoming an interwoven skill used in so many jobs today.

Our teaching process derives from Ayoka’s proprietary methodology, known as our UniversityRelations™ model for training student interns into proficient software developers. As such, this class will be conducted by experienced software developers who are currently working with our clients using the same technologies. An important aspect of the course will be carrying out a programming project to build a personal web page using HTML (HyperText Markup Language), CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and JavaScript elements. Students and instructors will program together virtually on an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) that enables collaborative development and code sharing on a cloud platform. Students will be introduced to the full life cycle of how software is developed, which will include their participation in the analysis, art design, construction, and testing of the application.

Ayoka will donate the software tools and course materials; parents will be asked to pay a nominal fee of $295 for the programming instructors. This fee covers all 8 weeks of the course.

Real-time Instruction will be livestreamed through Ayoka’s donation of our VirtualConnect.Live (VCL) software platform. The VCL platform was originally created to provide a top security training system for our enterprise clients that we are now contributing as a student teaching environment that requires controlled user access, privacy, interactive chat with controls for managing user chat and dynamic profanity filters. VCL incorporates live streaming, video-on-demand (VoD) delivery and innovative collaboration that enables multiple instructors to participate in a class and help students.

The VCL platform logs attendance, chat history, student engagement (what classroom links did they click on and when and how long were they on a specific page), and what instructional documents or files were downloaded by which student. Upon completion of a livestreamed class, VCL can automatically convert the livestream broadcasts into a VoD (Video on Demand) file that can be posted to the platform for students to re-watch later.