[Press Release] PDG Launch First Dev Workshop at SM Clark

Written by Crisel Blenda Bautista

ANGELES CITY - With a mission to bridge the gap between the academe and the workplace, Pampanga Developers Group (PDG) launched the first of its kind “collaborative-type” developers’ workshop in Pampanga at the CloudStaff HQ in SM City Clark on August 1, 2015.

Dubbed as “Learn Coding with Mentors”, students from different schools and universities, professionals and volunteers participated in the event.

Veteran developers with different areas of expertise facilitated the whole half-day seminar and workshop.

Jed Tiotuico, a professional ReactNative and PHP developer, started the seminar by discussing about front end development, mobile development and freelancing.

Rachel Jaro, PDG lead organizer and founder of Koodi Systems - a startup web development company in Pampanga, discussed everything that needs to know about Technopreneurship.

Technopreneurship and freelancing were added on the seminar to further educate students about the basic aspects of a successful freelance web developer career. It is also an essential building block of a tech business.

The seminar was followed by discussions on PHP and Cake PHP by Web Developer Joshua Sesniel Deloso.

Students in attendance also paid attention to the talk about the programming language C sharp (C#) and android development by Edison Capiz and Daniel John Gomez, respectively.

Furthermore, Armee Cabayao and Lars Joseph Norlander shared their expertise on mobile development, frontend development and Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets (SASS).

In partnership with CloudStaff, Inc. and Google Business Group (GBG) Angeles, the event aims to introduce the participants to apply their textbook knowledge on mobile and web development with the guidance of designated mentors.

Moreover, the main goal of the whole seminar and workshop was to complete a prototype at the end of the mentoring program.

"This is the first event that we shied away from the usual seminar-type environment. The reason behind our decision to shift gears is to experiment different ways on how we can better reach out to the community by adapting a collaborative-style workshop, which we concluded to be highly-effective for participants," Jaro said.

PDG is a non-profit web developers group based in Pampanga. It seeks to empower and connect Kapampangan mobile and web development students and professionals by organizing seminars, talks, and networking events, centered around the rising trends in web technologies and beyond.

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