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We created Ionic to enable web developers to become mobile developers, using technologies they already know well. Now that Ionic has been embraced by web developers around the world, new developers are emerging. It turns out that if you\u2019re smart and motivated and want to learn hybrid mobile development, Ionic is relatively straightforward to master.<\/p>\n

Not only are universities beginning to include Ionic in mobile development courses, other innovative developers are using Ionic to teach students as young as ten how to code.
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Ionic in Higher Education<\/h3>\n

Aaron Saunders<\/a> of Clearly Innovative<\/a> in Washington, D.C., is teaching an elective course at Howard University<\/a> on cross-platform mobile application development, featuring Ionic, after teaching a similar class at Howard last year. Last spring, \u201cthe best student project was built using Ionic,” says Saunders. “The student had never programmed in AngularJS or Ionic before the class.\u201d<\/p>\n

The London School of Economics<\/a> featured Ionic in one of its summer courses, and in France, developer Arnaud Lahaxe<\/a> teaches mobile development and APIs for the master of cognitive science program at the University of Lorraine<\/a>. \u201cLast year, I decided to change technologies from native Android Java to Ionic + Firebase,\u201d Lahaxe says. \u201cStudents loved this new version of the course and send me quite good projects–better than other years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Teaching Kids to Code<\/h3>\n

In the Netherlands, Henk Jurriens<\/a> uses Ionic to teach students ages 11-14 to build apps through his Coding Stuff<\/a> organization. Read more on his blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the Putnam City district of Oklahoma City, web developer Carmen Long<\/a> is using Ionic to teach HTML to students at the elementary school she attended, Tulakes Elementary<\/a>. \u201cTulakes students typically don’t have WiFi at home, or even a computer, and even if an adult in the home has a smartphone, it’s often without a data plan,\u201d says Long. \u201cI designed my Ionic app<\/a> to work on its own–no data or WiFi required.\u201d<\/p>\n

Long began by going through the app with fifth graders. \u201cThey enjoyed the video and pretty easily recognized which HTML tags did what,\u201d Long says. \u201cAfter they went through the app, we looked at a few websites under the hood and compared the tags on the page to the tags we had gone over. They were very excited to see how actual websites really use what I went over.\u201d<\/p>\n

Long and the kids then built their own fifth grade page together, and then Long worked individually with several motivated students. Long\u2019s grand plan is to create a full-fledged program for the kids this school year and expand to the high school. \u201cI am making everything open source, so I really hope other devs in other districts pick up on it and make their own programs,\u201d she says. \u201cThe thing I really loved about Ionic was the fact that I was able to take what I know about Angular–which is limited, admittedly–and immediately get started on making an app to help these kiddoes. That’s always been my goal–to help them–and Ionic helped me achieve that quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more about Long\u2019s experience on her blog<\/a>, and check out her project here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Changing the Future of Mobile Development<\/h3>\n

We\u2019re very inspired by these developers and educators, many of them volunteers, who are using Ionic so creatively to teach students of all ages to code. We\u2019re especially excited to hear that such diverse groups of students are being exposed to web and mobile development technologies at such a young age. That\u2019s how we can change the future. That\u2019s how we can make the tech world more diverse and inclusive of new perspectives and experiences. We hope Ionic can help lower the barrier to entry in the field of mobile development, opening doors for a diverse new wave of mobile developers. When developers represent a variety of backgrounds, that\u2019s one way we can truly change the future of mobile development.<\/p>\n

We\u2019d love to hear your stories about how you\u2019re using Ionic as a teaching tool. Please don\u2019t hesitate to share them<\/a> with us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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