Coding the future: This start-up helps children build commercial-ready apps

Can WhiteHat Jr, a platform for childern to learn coding, establish itself in a market that is expected to grow exponentially? Abhishek Kumar explores

Abhishek Kumar 

There is now widespread anxiety over the future of work. But amid all threats from robots, what is certain is that if a job involves creating something new, the chances of its survival are higher — the very reason coding is considered one of the futureproof skills.

And, the same reflects in the rising focus on teaching coding to children. Making this possible are a number of ed-tech start-ups, which have come out with ways to make the “highly technical” task appealing to children. One of them, WhiteHat Jr, recently raised $10 million in Series A funding led Nexus ...

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First Published: Sun, September 22 2019. 23:01 IST