With More than 70 Students, the "Digital Future Skills Bootcamp" Continues its Activities
King Khalid University, represented by the General Administration of Information
Technology, the Student Training & Exchange Unit, and the Deanship of Student
Affairs, recently launched the "Digital Future Skills Bootcamp". The bootcamp,
which is carried out in a 15 day period aims to qualify university students in the most
prominent specialized and general programming pathways and equipping them with
the demands of the labor market.
Dr. Hamed Al-Qahtani, the General Supervisor of the General Administration of
Information Technology, explained that this bootcamp is an extension of the
initiatives and training programs offered by the university, which in its regard aims to
enhance national digital skills and support digital transformation alongside the most
important programming technologies of the future.
Al-Qahtani stressed that these programs aim to encourage students to be creative,
innovative, and leaders in the digital field, which will result in contributing to
strengthening the digital national economy. He also said that the instructors of the
bootcamp are employees of the General Administration of Information Technology at
the university, who were initially students of such digital bootcamps.
On his part, the supervisor of the bootcamp, Eng. Mansour Al-Ayyaf, explained that
the bootcamp was worked on according to the latest and most important programming
languages and technology skills. Further, more than 70 students were selected to be in
the bootcamp after passing specified tests made by the iT Administration.
Al-Ayyaf added that the bootcamp is organized in 3 phases, starting with the first
phase in the first week, during which general training pathways were presented by
providing training courses in the fields of project management, analysis, software
testing, design, cybersecurity and database management. In the next phase, the current
one, the students are in intensive specialized pathways for five days in the various
programming fields: Drupal, Laravel, Java, Python, and Flutter. Lastly, in the third
stage, programming challenges and projects will be presented to the training teams,
and they will be given an opportunity to work on them in a five-day hackathon, after
which 5 winning projects will be announced.
