Our friends from Ivano-Frankivsk with the Android proposal for teenagers.We launched the first QA course and five kids groups this month.

Roman Shmelov, the founder and methodologist of the Programming School, explained why it is not important to choose a language at the beginning and his suggestion of the solution to this problem.

In August 2020, the KOWO team was inspired by an initiative that cleans Kyiv of dirt and dust. We decided to clean the Kropyvnytskyi embankment, which hundreds of citizens pass through every day. After 2 weeks, the volunteers and our team gathered again to clean the pillars that we didn’t have time to clean last time. But that wasn’t enough. To make the embankment even more attractive, we decided to paint the gray concrete…

We have fantastic news for you:– Waterfront cleaning, part 2– Five seconds of glory for our students of the P2P course in a video– We are looking for a mentor for our new course in School++

Latest news:– New online launch– A game that helps schools– Clean waterfront

Unexpected gifts Preparation for the site change Graduation of a computer graphics group Unexpected gifts What a surprise! Developers.org.ua have contacted us and asked how they could help. They support everyone who teaches teenagers and donated us a powerful laptop and a TV. The laptop is used for recording and editing videos for educational courses, …

Volodymyr Prykhozhenko finished our course in 2014 and supports us financially now. He works as a 1C developer and studies other areas such as mobile application development in his spare time. Last week he released an interactive trainer for Maths and English. He came up with the idea during the quarantine when he saw that …

Recently we’ve announced that we had developed digital diplomas for our graduates. Last week in our school we had a meeting with representatives of IT-companies of our city. We spoke of the diplomas and of a way to be mutually valuable to each other. Our goal is to help each student not only to learn …

We’ve joined the list of good schools in our country! Good School Manifesto initiative has developed a criteria that help to decide whether the course, educational institution or projects are qualitative and meet the expectations of a student. This way, students can choose a special place that gives them truly excellent knowledge and takes the …

From now on, ‌all our ‌alumni ‌will‌ ‌receive‌ ‌diplomas.‌ ‌Those ‌who‌ have already graduated ‌(since 2018‌‌) ‌will also be able to obtain confirmation of their ‌work‌  We still hold the opinion that a diploma is not obligatory. The most important thing is that we give knowledge, which will help to change the profession or …

Iryna Skliar is a web-developer that thought that web-development was quite a boredom. She wanted to be a journalist, photographer, or oceanologist. She came to School++ with no knowledge, but within a year, she was working on a real project. She writes books and likes to travel. Supports School++ and volunteers as a mentor. Thinks …

This has never happened before: we had to start teaching people online. Moreover, we carried the first meeting for peer-to-peer course online in two cities at the same time. 40 students from Kropyvnytskyi and Ivano-Frankivsk took part in the first meeting online and now they are learning by the adapted Stanford course. The course meant …

The whole world slows down but we try to use this time wisely. One of the results productive work of our team, graduates and volunteers from ONIX company is the website where you can support SHPP and KOWO ― https://donate.kowo.me/. In order to hold our project Vesnasoft (IT-fest for youth), we used the crowdfunding portal …

Matvienko family, Ruslana, Maksym, and Mykhailo are all studying at SHPP, Mom and Dad of the family study Java and their son studies Scratch in a children group. Ruslana found SHPP on the internet when she was looking for programming courses for her son, the fact that there are also courses for adults drew her …

Finally, Ш++ mentors declare their participation in Hacktoberfest! Our ongoing volunteers Andrii Chudinovskykh and Yura Dehtiar have been given T-shirts and stickers for their participation in the global hackathon Hacktoberfest that took place back in October 2019. We could have not posted about this and just celebrate those guys but this is a very important …

Web developers and mentors of “Ш++” Nastya Pereverzeiva and Yuriy Degtyar have shared their thoughts about the following questions: “For whom is it easier to become a developer?”, “How soon can one get a job after finishing our courses?”. And also the have told us some interesting stories about our graduates. Nastya teaches the basics …

After the article about us on dou.ua, more people wanted to know what we do and wished to join us. Unexpectedly, a few volunteers have offered us to help maintain the school. So starting in February, we are launching 2 new children groups. One of them will study Scratch and another one will study Python. …

Before we leave 2019 and begin a new year, it is important that we take a moment and remember the positive accomplishments of the past year as we prepare for an even brighter 2020. Studying Our team has experienced some fantastic changes this past year. We have spent many hours, days, weeks and months working …

Now and then we get some presents. Presents always please us, but sometimes we get something we would never expect. What happened? Our graduate has given us Oculus Quest!!! That was so unexpected pleasant and cool. We were dreaming about Oculus and even thought about applying for a grant with this purpose. Now everyone can …

We haven’t launched our online course yet (though we do dream about this and are going to do it), but you can now study in Ivano-Frankivsk as well! The first group already started on October 20. This story began when our friend, who lives in Ivano-Frankivsk, wished for “Ш++” to be in his city too. …

Another story of our graduate, who wanted to learn programming and change his life, and managed to do so. Konstantin Petrenko had been working as a miner for ten years when he started studying at Ш++ at the age of 34. “For me programmers were always kind of like chosen ones, and that is why …

Children studying has been relaunched after the summer holiday. Our volunteers are ready for work once again. And three groups with three different fields: Scratch, HTML/CSS and Python has started in “Ш++”. We start our groups with a small number of students when it comes to children since they require more effort, but we do …

A graduate of “Ш++” says that it’s not easy but no pain, no gain. An interview with Kostiantyn Petkov, who drastically changed his line of work and his life. Nine months ago Kostiantyn Petkov already had one-year experience working in IT. Before that, he had been a bus driver for more than ten years. You …