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IT Academy STEP Cambodia has become the first official GitHub Campus in Cambodia!    This a wonderful opportunity for our students and trainers to get access to international resources and tools.    They will enjoy: Automated access to premium GitHub Education features, like the GitHub Student Developer Pack for FREE. Exclusive access to new features, and GitHub Education-specific swag. Free access to GitHub Enterprise Server and GitHub Enterprise Cloud. Teacher training to master Git and GitHub.   IT Academy STEP is happy to be part of the Github world community and deliver best international standards and opportunities for the students and trainers in Cambodia.   Want to know more about GitHub? Click here.

Making hard decision about the future – what to study after school?   This big day – taking final graduation from a high school is behind! Some of students are happy with the results, some feel they could do better. But one thing everyone should remember – graduating a high school is an important, but just your first step in the journey to the successful future.   What is the most important now: make the right decision about the career path and take the steps towards your goal.   But how to make sure you are making a right decision? How can you be sure your education will help you to get a well-paid job, have possibilities for development and will bring you positive emotions? Here are few steps you, as a graduate, should consider.   Think about the future, don’t get stuck in the past   Education in a university would take at least 4 years, education at a training centre for an associate degree will take around 3 years. Should you ask a fortun

You might now often come across such concepts as UX and UI, but not everyone understands their meaning and the difference between them. Let’s try to figure it out together.   Whether you press buttons on an ATM, brew a cappuccino in a coffee machine, or swipe a button on the screen of a smartphone – these are all interfaces to interact with mechanisms. UX-design or user experience design is what an experience and an impression a user gets from working with your interface. Whether he/she is able to achieve the goal and how easy or difficult it is to do so.   Let’s take a simple example.   You have downloaded a new player on your smartphone, but it works exclusively in Japanese, which you do not understand. However, even without knowledge of Japanese, you can use the application without any discomfort, since its interface is intuitively understandable. It has buttons Play, Pause, Stop, play track and so on. After using this app for some time, you will not e

Everyone now owns a smartphone or a computer and use the devices every day to communicate with friends, share stories, read news, watch video and much more. All this is possible because of coding or programming – a basic skill of the digital age.   Children who learn coding get important experience that combines communication, thinking, logic and problem solving. These are the 21st century skills that are valuable for the future success in our digital world.   What is coding?   It is a process of creating step-by-step instructions for a computer. Games, tablets, cars, smartphones—even washing machines—all use coding to function properly.   Nowadays children can start learning coding even at very early age – like 5 y.o. through playing games. Early coding is fun and exciting. The earlier children learn the basics of coding, the more easily they will be able to understand and apply coding later in life. Especially for the young children you do not ev

Why Cambodia needs programmers and it is the last time to hurry up?   Cambodia is a developing country with strong focus of economy on manufacturing and agriculture. To sustain the country development it is essential to grow talents and skills to be able to bring to life the desired economical transition. All around the world 21st century economical development is dependable on technology. If we look at the most developed countries in the region we can clearly see the benefits of it. Just see an example of Singapore.   Interview with Ms.Nataly Rodionova, Managing Director of IT Academy STEP Cambodia, a professional training centre that provides education in programming and computer graphic and design and have managed to establish a reputation of one of the best places in Cambodia for the technology related education.   Please tell about yourself:   I have been in Cambodia for more than 2 years and came here on an assignment to establish a branch of IT Academ

After 2.5 years of studies in the department of Software Development, students from an evening group, have presented their graduation diploma projects to demonstrate their skills and creativity.   An international commission, with representatives from IT companies, educators and programmers, from Belarus, Cambodia, Bolivia, Canada, have evaluated students projects, their ideas and execution.   Students have presented projects they have been working for over 3 months on such topics: mobile app in Flutter for an e-commerce platform mobile app for driver for Android devices chat messenger with React Native and Meteor e-commerce web platform for buyers and sellers mobile app for tourists, using Google Api mobile app for couples to share memories and have private chats with React Native and Firebase Game in Unity and C#.