Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Digital Skills Academy has launched courses in programming and advanced programming that were designed to equip final year engineering students and graduates with programming skills through industry professionals in a hands-on way, making them ready for internships and jobs in IT.
Chennai: Officials said the course, which is open to students across the country, is expected to help the students in their job search in the IT industry and IT services in all core manufacturing and design areas.
Along with live online sessions, the course is being offered through an artificial intelligence platform that provides students with coding and self-assessment environment for practising programming in real-time.
The 120 hours of programming course will help professionals and students to obtain experiential learning equivalent to about three months of actual working experience in each of these courses and makes them job-ready. All students and working professionals who are interested in a career in IT can register and benefit from this programme. A formal certificate will be issued by the trainer and the knowledge partner - the Centre for Continuing Education, IIT Madras. for those who successfully complete the course(s).
Prof Mangala Sunder, founder and coordinator of the academy said the objective was to provide the necessary skills towards employment or reskilling to graduate students from Indian academic institutions and employees in multiple industrial sectors. “These courses will also make them industry- and job-ready. In addition, the trainers will cover multiple areas through large problem sets, that will also help the students to do competitive examinations in the banking and finance sector well and with confidence,” he said. The Digital Skills Academy is a joint venture of IIT Madras with Nasscom IT-IT Enabled Services Sector Skill Council of India.
Along with live online sessions, the course is being offered through an artificial intelligence platform that provides students with coding and self-assessment environment for practising programming in real-time.
The 120 hours of programming course will help professionals and students to obtain experiential learning equivalent to about three months of actual working experience in each of these courses and makes them job-ready. All students and working professionals who are interested in a career in IT can register and benefit from this programme. A formal certificate will be issued by the trainer and the knowledge partner - the Centre for Continuing Education, IIT Madras. for those who successfully complete the course(s).
Prof Mangala Sunder, founder and coordinator of the academy said the objective was to provide the necessary skills towards employment or reskilling to graduate students from Indian academic institutions and employees in multiple industrial sectors. “These courses will also make them industry- and job-ready. In addition, the trainers will cover multiple areas through large problem sets, that will also help the students to do competitive examinations in the banking and finance sector well and with confidence,” he said. The Digital Skills Academy is a joint venture of IIT Madras with Nasscom IT-IT Enabled Services Sector Skill Council of India.
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