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Keeping up to code: WOTSO and SSW launch Australia’s first two-day Angular 2 Day Training Workshop

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On Thursday March 2nd, WOTSO WorkSpace in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley played host to SSW FireBootCamp as they ran the first 2-day Angular 2 training workshop in Australia. Angular, the most popular JavaScript framework available today, is used to create web and mobile applications. Millions have been waiting for the release of Angular 2 over the past two years and now that it’s finally out, there’s lots to learn. Led by expert presenters, the students at WOTSO that morning were there for the first deep-dive training of its kind to cover Angular 2. During the two-day event, the attendees got to…

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Why the New York Times is talking about coding camps

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The New York Times recently ran an article about the rise of coding camps, and they’re not alone: a quick search of google shows a plethora of articles about this new phenomenon. As tech booms, the interest in new ways to enter the industry grows. Code camps in particular are getting attention because they represent opportunity for people past university age (although they are attended by people of all ages, including young students). In a world where education costs in the tens of thousands of dollars, and takes years to complete, coding camps offer a new way to reskill, without…

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FireBootCamp won the Microsoft Australia Partner Award for Excellence in Learning

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Disclaimer: This post originally appeared on adamcogan.com and is reproduced here with his permission Today, I am proud to announce SSW has won the MAPA 2015 Microsoft Australia Partner Award for Excellence in Learning for FireBootCamp, our 9-week intensive training .NET boot camp. FireBootCamp was up against the very best learning institutions in Australia, such as New Horizons and DDLS. To give you an idea of the competition, these 2 companies have about 200 employees, have been in business for close to 20 years, and are known as leading IT technical training and certification companies. I’d like to firstly thank Microsoft….

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MAPA: Putting FireBootCamp on the map

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We are delighted to announce that we have been named as finalists in the 2015 Microsoft Australia Partner Awards (MAPA), in the category of Excellence in Learning for our .NET training course, FireBootCamp. Part of why we’re so thrilled to have been chosen as finalists is that at FireBootCamp, while we use Microsoft products and methodologies, we don’t sell Certified Microsoft courses, which is one of the criteria that Microsoft considers when evaluating the award applicants. That FireBootCamp was selected as a finalist is great testimony that Microsoft recognises our innovative and holistic approach to training, and our fantastic course…

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