Mfarhanonline Social Media News: Apps for Good, a London-based tech course, announced it’s teaming up with Facebook to offer unemployed youth a free training course on how to design, code and build social apps. Students will learn to build apps for Facebook that focus on creating positive social change, as well as how to market their apps as entrepreneurs. Anyone aged 16 to 24 and living in London is eligible to participate. Apps for Good students will learn HTML5, PHP and SQL. Representatives from Dell, Thomson Reuters and Techlightenment are among the advisers. At the end of the four-day-a-week, 10-week program, course graduates will present their projects at Facebook’s London Headquarters. Do you think coding and app development are important skills to teach young people? Let us know what you think of the program in the comments. Thumbnail image courtesy of iStockphoto , akinbostanci More About: apps , Facebook , Mfarhanonline video , Social Good Social Media reviews series maintain by Mayya
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
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