Android Application Development courses in Malta are being offered at STC Training. These courses will run during the school’s summer programme, which runs from July to September. The app courses, together with a wide number of au courant short courses, were presented to visitors at STC’s open day.
The open day introduced visitors to the short courses on offer this summer, from robotics to developing a website, to IT essentials and cyber security.
A key theme in all courses is entrepreneurship. In fact the open day was themed ‘Become an entrepreneur whether you’re a new or veteran programmer’. In addition to teaching students the latest in IT and gaming essentials, lecturers are well aware of the high competition and incorporate promoting oneself and one’s business.
Information booths on the various courses, as well as workshops giving a taste of what they could learn in a few months, also featured.
Lecurer John Debono said the new course was interesting because it was progressive. The course features three modules that can be covered from one summer to another. One received a certificate following the completion of each module and on completion of all three, students become Certified Android Engineers.
Clifford de Raffaele, who runs the Building Robots Using Ardiuno course, spoke about the fun and tactile aspects to his course. With a little robot wheeling around in front of him, he said: “Our course uses the best platforms on the market.
“Using the Arduino Robotics platform, the course takes learners through the world of electronic design, providing them with a complete understanding of how robotics work in a fun and interesting setting.”
Lecturers Steven Camilleri and Robert Attard ran an informative presentation on their Game Development using Unity course. They showed visitors clips from games such as Dex, Naval Action and Murasaki Baby, explaining how they could create similar games using the Unity game engine.
Mr Camilleri adopted a business-minded approach and explained that not only does learning game development promote creativity, but it is also a lucrative industry.
STC offers short, full-time and part-time courses that serve as a foundation to undergraduate and postgraduate courses on offer at its sister University of Middlesex.
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