The annual income of the students in the lecture how to make iPhone application 5 times

The share of smartphones is larger than that of mobile phones, and the application market of smartphones is getting bigger year by year. In New York, due to the rapid development of the technology industry, shortage of talent of developers has occurred, but even a person without programming experience started a training program to learn how to make iOS applications, the student 's annual income has doubled five times, Non-profit organization implementing the program "Coalition for Queens"Announced.

A nonprofit in Queens taught people to write iPhone apps - and their incomes jumped from $ 15k to $ 72k - Vox
http://www.vox.com/2014/4/22/5640734/learning-to-code-boosted-incomes-to-72000

As of 2014, the technology industry is rapidly developing in New York, there are more than 70,000 job offers, but the number of developers is not enough. So, Queens, a nonprofit organization that supports the development of the technology industry and entrepreneurship, is a program that teaches people without programming experience how to make iOS applications "Access Code"It was started.

For the first class in 2013, 21 students gathered and took an 18 week course. After that, fifteen students graduated, and those acquiring the skills of iOS application creation succeeded in taking jobs as developers. Their annual income rose from nearly 15,000 dollars (about 1.54 million yen) to nearly five times, on average, at $ 72,190 (about 7.4 million yen). The remaining six people who have not graduated are students of university students, but some students are preparing for entrepreneurship rather than finding employment.


In New York, the ratio of women in the technology industry is 12%, the proportion of Hispanic-African Americans is 7%, which represents the situation where women and immigrants are not able to enter the IT industry. The number of technology companies entrepreneurs started up is only 1.5%, which is quite a few, although it is America that should have a very large number of immigrants.


Under such circumstances, the access code has a female ratio of 57%URM(African American / Native Americans) is 52%, the immigration ratio is 40%. It is an important community that develops potential talent in the technology industry where developers are missing.


In Access Code, not only lessons of programming technology but also enthusiasts are invited and lectures are also held, and it is also possible to acquire the startup spirit.


An example of iOS application created by graduates as a start-up is here, a To-Do application "BusyBee".


Password application "Delockr"


Recipe application "Shutterchef"


Grade application "Score"There are teams that are working on startup among students one after another.


A project that keeps making 180 websites a day from programming inexperienceI finished the race,Homeless learns about application development and successfully launched applicationsThere are various examples that you become developers even if you are totally inexperienced. Because the application market continues to develop in Japan, it is one effective means for people who are lost in work to encourage themselves to develop applications.