Google introduces online coding course to train employees for tech tasks

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Andrew Federman

As the tech market continues to alter the work landscape for American employees, Google states it wishes to prepare them for tasks in the market. The search giant on Thursday revealed a brand-new course in the coding language Python, an essential ability that numerous companies are searching for. 

The program, called the Google IT Automation With Python Professional Certificate, will be readily available through the online education service Coursera. It’ll be a six-course program in beginner-level Python, which will culminate in a last capstone task concentrated on programs for automation. 

Google likewise stated it’ll money 2,500 need-based scholarships associated with IT training through Google.org, the search giant’s humanitarian arm. The scholarships will go through nonprofits consisting of Goodwill, Merit America and Upwardly Global. 

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The news comes as Google and its peers deal with examination over the ramifications of innovation and automation on tasks and the labor force. The Python course becomes part of Grow With Google, an effort revealed 3 years back in which the business vowed $1 billion to assist prepare employees for tech tasks. 

In October, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and White House consultant Ivanka Trump revealed a Google program to offer 250,000 training chances over the next 5 years for Americans to discover innovation abilities.

Pichai likewise stated Google would sign the Pledge to America’s Workers, an effort by the White House to “expand programs that educate, train and reskill American workers from high-school age to near-retirement.” 

At the time, Pichai likewise stated Google’s program for accrediting IT specialists will broaden to 100 United States neighborhood colleges by the end of 2020. Google on Thursday stated that program is readily available on Coursera too.Â