{"id":334853,"date":"2019-08-15T13:20:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T11:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=334853"},"modified":"2019-08-15T13:20:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T11:20:45","slug":"new-google-programme-to-teach-south-african-students-to-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/334853\/new-google-programme-to-teach-south-african-students-to-code\/","title":{"rendered":"New Google programme to teach South African students to code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google South Africa has launched <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/csfirst.withgoogle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CS First<\/a><\/strong>, a new programme aimed at equipping South African learners with the fundamentals of computer science, including coding.<\/p>\n<p>Google said that the programme aims to train more than 30,000 learners across nine provinces in the space of a year, and will target learners in grades 4 to 8, although it may also be useful for learners up to grade 10.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the programme, students will watch instructional videos while simultaneously building projects in Scratch (scratch.mit.edu), a blocks-based programming language.<\/p>\n<p>The company said that 70% of its CS First training will be in public schools and 10% in special needs schools.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If South Africa is to compete globally, its learners need to have a strong digital skills base,&#8221; said Fortune Mgwili-Sibanda, policy and government affairs, Google South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the projects available in the current curriculum include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Various coding projects;<\/li>\n<li>Animation;<\/li>\n<li>How to conceive and pitch a project;<\/li>\n<li>Presentation skills;<\/li>\n<li>Storytelling;<\/li>\n<li>Music and sound design;<\/li>\n<li>Simulation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/333979\/south-africa-is-getting-new-technical-schools-heres-what-you-need-to-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> South Africa is getting new \u2018technical\u2019 schools \u2013 here\u2019s what you need to know<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google South Africa has launched CS First, a new programme aimed at equipping South African learners with the fundamentals of computer science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":207047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9878],"tags":[53,26],"class_list":["post-334853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-google","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334853"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334867,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334853\/revisions\/334867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}