About 11% of Indians start coding before they are 15 years old (that’s lower than the global figure of 31%), and 71% do before they are 20.
BENGALURU: The majority of Indian developers are learning to code through websites like YouTube, coding sites like GitHub and Stack Overflow,Stack Overflow, and online courses, rather than relying on educational institutes.
As high as 70% of around 3,700 Indian developers surveyed said they had taught themselves how to code, either exclusively, or in addition to school. And 33% (1,217 developers) said they were exclusively self-taught, without any academic help.
The survey, done globally among 40,000 developers across 42 countries, was conducted by talent evaluation company HackerRank. HackerRank is a technical hiring platform that helps businesses evaluate software developers based on skill. It has a leader board that hosts talented coders with a live score board that gets updated on a real time basis.
Most industry biggies, including Amazon, LinkedIn, QuoraAmazon, LinkedIn, Quora and Facebook, keep an eye on this leader board to hire the best of coders across the globe.
Stack Overflow, an online community of developers to code and learn, was the most popular platform to learn coding, with over 70% of Indian developers and students choosing it (over 8,000 developers and students were surveyed for this). This was followed by YouTube. MOOCs (massive open online courses) like Udemy, Udacity, Coursera, and online tutorial websites like Pluralsights and Lynda were also more popular than books among students trying to learn coding.
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About 11% of Indians start coding before they are 15 years old (that’s lower than the global figure of 31%), and 71% do before they are 20.
