Hacktiv8 and Solutions to Answer the Needs of Developers in Indonesia

Last Friday (19/05), DailySocial get a chance to attend the graduation ceremony batch five students Hacktiv8 Indonesia, an intensive 12 Weeks education or training program to educate anyone to become proficient as full stack Javascript programmer.

On this occasion, 14 students who were divided into several teams were asked to give presentations in front of invited guests, who came from startups and corporations in Indonesia. What's interesting about this activity is the opportunity for students to directly show their abilities.

Most students who enroll in the Hacktiv8 program are those who have mastered programming and related matters. However, there are also those who come from a marketing background and intend to study further pair programming, HTML/CSS, JavaScript ES2016, Version Control, Database, Node JS & Express JS, React & Reduct, Test-Driven Development, Deployment & Scaling and Engineering Empathy, which is the topic taught in Hacktiv8

To DailySocial, Managing Director of Hacktiv8 Ronald Ishak said that the graduation ceremony was interesting to watch, because it could be seen firsthand the extent to which each student's abilities were related to the curriculum and topics they had studied, assisted by existing mentors or instructors.

"We just want to share the world if the person who was previously 'blind' Programming it could be programmer within 12 weeks,” said Ronald.

The growing need for startups and technology companies for development workers in Indonesia is the main target for graduates of this program.

Validated interesting application

One of the applications that were presented was an application travel itineraries named "Plan it now". For approximately 5-7 days, each team is asked to create an application that is attractive and has the potential to be of interest to the target user. This is Hacktiv8's commitment to build good and reliable applications impact to the public.

Overview of the Plan it now application made by Hacktiv8 graduate students batch the fifth is similar to Trip Advisor, but has additional agendas, maps, and interests that are customized for the user.