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AUBURN — The Center for Workforce and Professional Development at Central Maine Community College is offering a no-cost small business virtual workshop “Small Money for Small Business,” as well as recruiting participants for a no-cost entry-level software developer training program.
Free small business workshop: In partnership with the Bob Berry, from Main-Land Development Consultants, the free small business virtual workshop: “Smart Money for Small Business,” will be held from 5 to 7 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 27.
The course teaches the basics of checkbook registers, reconciling, account management, budgeting, debt management, tax management and making profit. The course is not for accountants and business experts, but geared toward new small business owners or any business owner having a hard time controlling cash flow, ensuring taxes are paid and profit is made.
A basic understanding of spreadsheets will help, but is not required.
Free entry level software training: Three cohorts are scheduled to take place through June, which will allow roughly 45 students to participate and take the next step in an IT career. All costs associated with the training program are funded by the Harold Alfond Foundation, and it is offered at no cost to participants.
Over the course of 12 weeks, participants will learn basic software development component including simple coding blocks, portion with conditionals, loops, sequencing, etc; receive an introduction to a “C” based procedural language translating code to real world actions, beginning with an internet of things enabled device for introduction to hardware, and designing a bottom to top project in the internet of things using a development environment; HTML & Javascript, developing webpage functionality; learning more advanced programming language for problem solving (Python); use GitHub and other practice tools of the software developer program to practice collaboration and agile/team development methods.
The curriculum is designed to assist participants in preparation for a certification exam in Python language. This is considered an online training course and has a designated schedule where participants will meet as a group with the instructor via Zoom; however, there will also be self-paced work to ensure all training objectives are met.
Registration is required for both the workshop and the IT course. For more information, contact CMCC’s Center for Workforce & Professional Development at 207-755-5280, email workforcedevelopment@cmcc.edu or visit www.cmcc.edu/professionaldevelopment.
