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Exciting Scholarship Opportunities for Metro Detroit Developers

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scholarship opportunitiesGrand Circus is excited to announce the scholarship opportunities for their upcoming Enterprise Developer Bootcamp. The role of an enterprise developer is exciting – salaries of senior .NET developers average $105,000 annually and career opportunities pop up every day across metro Detroit. Employers are looking for .NET talent, and are ready to fill these positions upon bootcamp graduation.

 

Grand Circus has three scholarship opportunities available – all applicants can apply to as many scholarships as they qualify for:

 

– The Microsoft Scholarship – celebrating the inventors of the .NET framework, this scholarship is for individuals committed to reinvesting in the city of Detroit and its residents.

 

– The Dr. Grace Hopper Scholarship – celebrating the inventor of the first programming compiler and the reason the COBOL programming language exists, this scholarship is from women making the leap into the tech industry.

 

– The Dr. Clarence Ellis Scholarship – celebrating the first African-American phD in Computer Science, this scholarship is for underrepresented minorities within the industry.

 

Scholarship applications are available to all applicants to Grand Circus’s Enterprise Developer Bootcamp in the second phase of the application process. Apply to the boot camp today! To get into touch with Grand Circus about these scholarship opportunities, give them a call at 313.338.8379.

 

Brightwing is currently looking for passionate .Net Developers to work on cutting edge technologies. If you know someone in the field, introduce them to Brightwing and you can earn a $1,250 referral bonus and a $50 Visa gift card! You can submit your referrals here.

Top Programming Languages of 2013

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top programming languagesWhy should you know the top programming languages from 2013? For starters they are the skills needed for today’s high demand IT jobs industry wide.  They will also be in high demand for 2014. Companies are investing more in their internal systems, spending more money on their websites, and developing relevant mobile applications making the growth and need for software developers skyrocket. The Bureau of Labor and Statistics has projected a 30% growth in the employment of software developers by 2020. This is about twice the average growth rate for ALL occupations.

Secondly, If you aren’t a developer it is very likely that you work directly or indirectly with one to help you complete some aspect of your every day job. Knowing that these skill sets exist, and how they operate can help you more clearly communicate with your IT Department or helpdesk. Free sites like Codecademy (linked to below), can help give you this background knowledge.

Without further adieu, here are the top programming languages of 2013:

 

Author: Elyse Lopez