S. Vishnu Sharma
IIT Madras DS Academy is launching courses in Programming and Advanced Programming.
These courses launched by IIT Madras DS Academy are 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.
IIT Madras DS Academy comes up with online course
The courses offered by IIT Madras DS Academy will help the takers of this course in their job search in the IT industry and IT services in all core manufaturing and design areas and is open to students across India.
The courses of IIT Madras DS Academy are offered in collaboration with IIT Madras incubated startup GUVI.
IIT Madras DS Academy will offer the course through an Artificial Intelligence platform which provides students with coding and self-assessment environment for practicing 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.
Students and professionals who are aspiring for a career in IT industry can register for this course by IIT Madras DS Academy.
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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 offered by IIT Madras DS Academy.
Details of the course offered by IIT Madras DS Academy are available at the website ‘https://skillsacademy.iitm.ac.in’
Students or professionals willing to join the course offered by IIT Madras DS Academy can use the link ‘https://www.guvi.in/IIT-Madras-Certified-Professional-in-Programming’
Speaking about the course, Professor Mangala Sundar said the objective behind introducing the course by IIT Madras DS Academy is to provide graduating students from Indian academic institutions and employees in multiple industrial sectors the necessary skills towards employment or reskilling in relevant sectors.
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IIT Madras DS Academy courses will also make them industry and job-ready, said Professor Sundar.
‘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.’
Speaking about the course offered by IIT Madras DS Academy, S.P. Balamurugan, Co-Founder and CEO of GUVI said programming skill is the need of the hour for every aspiring and ambitious candidate to get placement in IT companies.
The Gamified learning and practise platform designed by GUVI will provide a unique and exclusive training environment for the learners through various modes, he said.
Professor Balaraman Ravindran, head of Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (RBCDSAI) said there is a great need for people skilled in data science and analytics across multiple disciplines.
These two courses are aimed at providing the programming training needed for practitioners looking to build data-driven solutions for their business needs.
The courses are designed to suit either absolute beginners or people with some familiarity in programming and introduce them to building real-world applications, he said.
Educational institutions are encouraged to enrol their students in bulk for this course offered by IIT Madras DS Academy.
To obtain information about the courses offered by IIT Madras DS Academy, individuals can contact Professor Mangala Sundar at ‘mangalas@dth.ac.in’ or ‘mangal@iitm.ac.in’
Interested individuals can even contact Mr. S.P. Balamurugan at ‘spbalamurugan@guvi.in’
IIT Madras DS Academy or IIT Madras Digitial Skills Academy is a joint venture of IIT Madras and NASSCOM IT-IT Enabled Services Sector Skill Council of India.
It is chaired by two eminent personalities – Lakshmi Narayanan, Founder-CEO of Cognizant Technology solutions and Prof. M.S. Ananth, former Director of IIT Madras and one of the founders of online digital education in India.
The Academy is governed by an Advisory Council with members from NASSCOM, industry and Academia. The Director of IIT Madras is the chief patron.