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Santo Domingo.- The Las Americas Technological Institute (ITLA) announced Tuesday that starting January it will offer a specialized course to develop software used on Iphones and Blackberries.
ITLA director Jose A. Tavárez said the three month will focus mostly on Blackberry technology, with classes given by previously trained teachers. “When they finish the course students will be able to develop applications and sell them to companies that market it at the world level.”
Speaking with journalists specialized in technology, the official said Dominican Republic has become important for companies that sell intelligent phones or smartphones.
Just in 2010 the company Research In Motion (RIM), developer of the Blackberries, introduced four models and its representative in the country, Mariano Sanchez, affirmed that, “the adoption of Blackberry and the BB messenger in Dominican Republic is among the world’s best.”
ITLA’s technical courses and short term studies have been its trademark in its 10 years since founded, training around 30,000 in robotics, software, information technology, multimedia and networks.
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Why NOT create training classes( machine operators, designers, foremans, laborers and supervisors) for the construction industry which is larger in DR than software development(1 position) and warrents less competition for a job. I rather see 20,000 students with 18,000 job placements than having the same amount of students and only 2,000 placed jobs. But, than again, thats not what leo wants.......
Let put it this way. Merit Designs the best software company in DR, who is the designer of DT and many other large sites in DR can't even follow basic web programming standards. How can we even take an institution seriously claiming to teach people programming in 3 months. On average it takes 10 years to become a master programmer, and by 10 years I mean real life experience working on it. On average it takes 3 months just to get a college student in USA to start thinking like a programmer now how is ITLA with less skilled students and less experience going to do what MIT has not been able to figure out ever since their existence.
In 3 months they can learn how to use the calculator function lol.
It is done in the US with technical career institutes, that offer fast tract training in a few short months with a promise of a high paying jobs after you are done.