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Coders4Africa provides African programmers gateway to free training and certification in the main technologies and platforms that currently dominate the software development industry.
Website: http://www.coders4africa.org
Location: United states
Members: 3
Latest Activity: May 26, 2011
Welcome to Coders4Africa the original source that provides African programmers and developers a gateway to free high quality training and certification in the main technologies and platforms that currently dominate the software development industry.
The main objective is to provide free training for 1000 African Software developers and programmers by the year 2016.
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Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.
Created by Michael Levin Dec 18, 2008 at 6:56pm. Last updated by Michael Levin May 4, 2018.
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