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Our biggest lessons from COVID-19 – Part 3: Adapt or go bust

COVID-19 has been devastating, but it has also been a learning experience for our education system, businesses, and society. Below, our Head of Education, Nico Kruger, outlines the biggest lessons we’ve learned about the explosion of digital transformation, the importance …

Our biggest lessons from COVID-19 – Part 2: Risk Awareness is Key

Our biggest lessons from COVID-19 – Part 1: You need to be online

COVID-19 has been devastating, but it has also been a learning experience for our education system, businesses, and society. Our Head of Education, Nico Kruger, outlines the biggest lessons we’ve learned about the explosion of digital transformation, the importance of …

HyperionDev Leadership Stories: Nico Kruger

Building one of Southern Africa’s biggest EdTech providers is only possible with one thing: an unrivalled, world-class tech education. This education would be impossible without a course structure that teaches critical programming skills in a well-paced structure that makes sense …

HyperionDev Employee Stories: Sobane Motlomelo

Even the best education is nothing without an orderly, well-structured learning environment and system – and keeping our bootcamps at their world-class level requires a team of expert educators and operations specialists. In this HyperionDev Employee story, we look at …

October 31, 2017 Free Resources / Tutorials

Programming 101 – installing Python

Before you learn how to program, you need to first download and install a copy of Python on your computer. This tutorial will walk you through that process. These instructions are for installing Python 3 onto a computer running Windows

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October 31, 2017 Tutorials

Programming 101 – learning Python

Programming is an important and highly sought-after skill. It’s a great asset to have for any professional knowledge-worker in this information age. Aside from the career benefits, you can also learn programming to improve your logical thought processes, build the …

October 31, 2017 Tutorials

An introduction to the Unix terminal – part 2

The previous tutorial focused on basic file management commands that were useful in the Unix terminal. If you haven’t read the first tutorial, we’d recommend you do so now. Now we’ll look into some more advanced commands to accomplish administrative

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October 31, 2017 Free Resources / Software Development / Tutorials

An introduction to the Unix terminal – part 1

A huge majority of the users of Microsoft Windows often won’t dare to venture near the command prompt; for them, a symbol of the dark days of DOS. In the world of software development, the terminal is an indispensable part

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October 31, 2017 Coding Careers / Web Development

What is a Full Stack Web Developer?

Think of a coin. Can you separate the one side from the other? Of course you can’t. Front end and back end web development are a little like that. They are two sides of the same thing. The front-end, or …

October 31, 2017 Free Resources / Programming Information / Tutorials

VirtualBox Installation Tutorial

This tutorial will guide you through the steps of virtualising Ubuntu within your current Windows installation. (If virtualisation is new to you, Get the low-down on the concepts here)

VirtualBox – the free choice

There are a number of

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