The Episcopal Church in Navajoland has partnered with a technology company to teach students web development. Cultivating Coders, an Albuquerque-based “boot camp” teaches students full-stack development and trains them for both front and back end website creation, learning Angular, CSS3, HTML5, Javascript, MySQL and PHP. “Alongside these languages, we also work on design concepts, planning, execution, system administration and other tasks that are a part of the full stack of skills required to compete in this industry,” said the company’s CTO, Charles Sandidge. Most of the students will be hired by the Episcopal Church in Navajoland to form Cheii’s Dev Shop, a new web-development company based at All Saints Church. David Bailey, Bishop of Navajoland, said “We recognize that computer coding right now is big and something not available on the Navajo reservation.”
The students are focused three projects – human resources software for the development shop, a rebuilding the Episcopal Church in Navajoland’s website, including event and messageboard software for the 10 congregations, and FastCasualFine.com, a restaurant review website.
Information for this story came from The Farmington Daily Times
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