WoTech
for women in Estonia & Latvia

During the program learners will go through a thorough training giving fundamental tools to start working as junior programmers. Preliminary topics, that will be covered (may change): Java, SQL, DevOps, AI.

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The programming related course will require about 180-220 learning hours. Learners will be expected to take part of online contact meetings (held in the evenings and weekends), practice independently and work in groups. 

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The topic covered by the IT Course:

 

Java module 
- Introduction to Java and setting up integrated development environment (IDE)  - Basic Syntax and the first program  
- Variables and the principle of clean code (naming conventions etc.)  - Statements and loops  
- Functions and methods  
- Arrays and simple collections  
- Exception Handling  
- Lambda Expressions  
- Object oriented programming (OOP)  
- Using and building Application Programming Interface (API)  
- SQL, noSQL and Object relational mapping (ORM)  
- Unit testing  

 

Python module  

- Setting up virtual environment and writing the first code  

- Variables, data types, input and output  

- Operators and logical operations  

- Basic data structures  

- Loops  

- Functions and methods  

- Basic Object Oriented Programming (OOP) with Python  

- Using AI to develop a code  

- Data analytics libraries (pandas, numpy)  

- Data reading and saving to a file  

- Data cleaning and wrangling (working with Titanic dataset)  

- Data plotting (plotly, matplotlib, seaborn) (working with Netflix movie dataset)  - Introduction to data science (scikitlearn framework)  

- Basic machine learning with Python  

- Developing simple ML/AI models with Python  

- Interacting with AI models through API with Python  

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DevOps module  

- Understanding the hosting and deployment process  

- Version control system “git” and its cloud hosting in GitHub  

- Deployment platforms and main principles of deployment  

- Learning how to host and deploy in a selected cloud platform  - Hosting databases  

- Deploying own projects from source control to a hosting 

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To finish the program successfully and most importantly - get a job in the ICT field -  learners must go for an internship of at least 2 months. Internship is mandatory to successfully finish the program and get the certificate. Participants must find the suitable internship themselves - though there will be support from the program side in finding the  job and internship openings.

 

It is possible to substitute internship with directly starting a new job in your chosen or similar field., or to continue studying programming in a course that lasts also minimum 2 months. Internship (or work or study) positions must be secured by the end of the program, but can be carried out after the program. 

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There will be additional webinars organised to increase learners soft skills and career possibilities. Those meetings are held online and start when the programming course is almost done. The topics covered in the webinars will boost skills that are important to analyse oneself regards future career choices, prepare a CV and motivation letter, develop team-working and digital communication skills, and stand out when applying to jobs.

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The instructors of webinars may give learners additional independent tasks/exercises to be completed before or after the webinars to deepen the learning curve.

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During the whole program learners get to meet inspirational speakers from different IT companies and to learn more about different job possibilities in the field of ICT.

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The learners will find themselves in an warm and friendly learning environment. Learners are organised into smaller learning groups of 5-6 learners, allowing to get to know each other better. The program managers are at disposal to support learners in every way they can.