{"id":1841,"date":"2019-01-15T09:24:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T09:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/?p=1841"},"modified":"2019-01-15T09:24:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T09:24:21","slug":"year-in-computing-kickstart-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2019\/01\/15\/year-in-computing-kickstart-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Year In Computing Kickstart Lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many students are keen to learn the tech skills that will make them stand out to a graduate employer, or simply want to learn more about computing for their own interests. The Year in Computing gives Kent students from any subject area* the opportunity to add a Year in Computing to their degree to help improve their skills and employability.\u00a0This extra year can be taken after stage 2 or any subsequent year of your degree (including your final year).<\/p>\n<p>Students interested in finding out more about the Year in Computing are invited to a kickstart lunch with FREE Pizza on Tuesday 22 January from 12.30 &#8211; 14.00\u00a0 in Cornwallis South West, room 101. Please book a place at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/year-in-computing-kickstart-lunch-tickets-53592151568?ref=estw\">kickstart lunch.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Year in Computing&#8217; will be an addition to your current degree and it should be possible to extend your student finances for an extra year. You will not only learn coding and web skills, but also how to analyse data and how to make computer systems that people will find it easy to engage with.<\/p>\n<p>The Year in Computing will especially be of interest to students if;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>they\u00a0are\u00a0interested in studying computing AND their\u00a0current degree,<\/li>\n<li>they\u00a0would like to get prepared for a career in tech,<\/li>\n<li>they\u00a0are interested in exploring the frontiers of their subject and computing,<\/li>\n<li>they\u00a0want to learn how to be creative with computing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kent graduate, Allana Bailey, BA Economics and Politics with a Year in Computing, 2018, said\u00a0\u2018I never expected to be going into computing but I did the Year in Computing and enjoyed pretty much everything, and that is how I found my new career.\u2019\u00a0 Find out more in the video below.<\/p>\n<p>More details are available at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.kent.ac.uk\/ug\/year-in-computing.html\">www.cs.kent.ac.uk\/ug\/year-in-computing.html<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='1140' height='672' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nB3HzvB9Jvc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*with the exception of students from the School of Computing and School of Psychology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many students are keen to learn the tech skills that will make them stand out to a graduate employer, or simply want to learn more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2019\/01\/15\/year-in-computing-kickstart-lunch\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":1756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[498,37,9871,149977],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1841"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1854,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions\/1854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}