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Directi has officially launched its platform CodeChef, which brings together professional and student software developers to discuss and find solutions to real life software development problems.
Bhavin Turakhia, founder, chairman & CEO, Directi, said, “In the last few years, while engineering colleges have mushroomed all over the country, the curriculum in most colleges does not truly recreate real-world scenarios and allow budding software developers to collaborate with professionals.”
The IT-BPO sector over the last decade has been known as a high-growth industry contributing close to 5.8 percent of India’s GDP and employing over two million people. In spite of such a large IT talent pool, India has yet to develop a globally recognised software product company that matches the size and scale of a Google or a Facebook.
According to Turakhia, the skilled labor in the country is not good enough because the requirement that was there 10 years ago has changed now. “Before the need was to outsource, now the need is to create, as there are a lot more options on the outsourcing front these days. For example, if China starts talking English tomorrow, we will be nowhere”.
He said, “We designed CodeChef as an initiative to supplement the Indian education system by enabling knowledge sharing, encouraging collaboration and driving learning through competition. We are determined to bridge the gap and help aspiring software developers in India morph into highly-talented professionals”.
Apart from being just a professional platform, CodeChef also allows its members to know each other socially and allows a person to invite their friends from platforms like Facebook and Twitter.
Since CodeChef’s inception five months back, more than 250,000 individuals have visited the website and over 10,000 users have submitted their code. Featuring monthly contests in more than 35 different programming languages, CodeChef also offers attractive prizes.
In addition to practice problems and monthly contests, CodeChef also works with students and professionals through its campus chapters and TechTalks. CodeChef TechTalks promote technical education and knowledge sharing by making internationally renowned speakers accessible to software professionals in India.
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