Tulsa’s tech community should get a boost with the opening of a new coding school.
Coding Dojo teaches students three programming languages in roughly three months, even if they don’t have a background in computers. Coding Dojo’s Jay Patel said nationwide, there’s big demand for developers but a low supply of them.
"There's a need for some of these postsecondary vocational schools that can fill that gap and help individuals who don't have a traditional tech background to break into that industry," Patel said.
Tulsa’s campus is at 36 Degrees North. Other Coding Dojo campuses are in Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, Dallas and Washington, D.C.
Patel said their interest in Tulsa is twofold.
"There's research from the University of Oklahoma that says around 4,500 coding positions go unfilled in Tulsa every year," Patel said. "Now, that's a large shortage of tech talent that we're trying to fill, but, in addition to that, we have an opportunity to grow the community itself."
Coding Dojo teaches students "full stacks," meaning they learn how users experience a program, how the program works behind the scenes and how it interacts with a database.
The stacks offered are iOS, Ruby on Rails, Python, Mean, .NET and Java.
The first Tulsa class begins Sept. 18.
