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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 25, 2017 Coding Careers

Python – Industry’s New Favorite

We often think of a Python as a famous dangerous snake. In this article, we will be looking at it from a software development perspective. So what exactly is Python? Simply put: it is a popular programming language, which is …

October 24, 2017 Coding Careers / Software Development

Developer Demand: Will it Continue to Rise?

Software, says Marc Andreesen, co-founder and general partner of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which has invested in many big tech companies like Facebook and Twitter, is eating the world. What does he mean? In an article …

how to negotiate your first salary as a developer

October 23, 2017 Software Development

Learn Programming: 10 Ways Programming Can Change Your Life

Programming. Coding. Careers traditionally associated with characters you’d see in a movie: hugely intelligent, socially isolated, weird. However, the perception that only tech experts and computer science and engineering graduates can code is fast changing. You need not become a …

October 18, 2017 Coding Careers

8 Different Types of Software Development Careers

It’s no secret that software development careers are lucrative and in demand. Check out these web developer salaries. But where should you position yourself in this field, and what pays favourably? Below we present 8 different career prospects in …

October 18, 2017 Student Success Stories

Emile Esterhuizen – From Bioprocessing Student to Python Programmer

In our latest Hyperion Success Story we find out from one of our students how taking a Hyperion course has helped them in their lives, studies, and careers.

Tell us a bit about yourself?

I’m now working as a …

October 17, 2017 Coding Careers

How to become a Software Engineer in South Africa

One of the most respected positions in the US and UK right now is that of a software developer. Much of the ‘Silicon Valley’ culture has found its way out of San Francisco to dominate some of the best paying …