User:Antifragil/WellCode

WellCode is a company based in Cluj-Napoca, România which offers mentoring services in the programming field to beginners, people who want a professional reconversion to IT and to students who are preparing for school exams and competions. The company offers its services through an online platform, but also through video calls and weekly live streams on their YouTube Channal. This way the mentors communicate with their clients or with their audience.

In the beginning of 2021, the platform reached a number of aproximately 100,000 registered members. At the time the youngest WellCode trainee was 11 years old, in the 6th grade, while the oldest trainee was a 68 years old man.

Evolution
Wellcode was founded on 11th of September 2017 by Tiberiu Petru Trîmbițaș, olympian at informatics and former Google and Facebook employee, who returned in Romania to help programming enthusiasts in overcoming the obstacles he encountered as he was descovering the secrets of programming.

In 2020 the number of registrants grew by a third compared to 2019, the company registring a revenue of 2 million RON, twice as much as the previous year. Acording to the founder, the Coronavirus pandemic played a role in this growth as well.

In june 2021, the company updated its logo across all online platforms, the new visual identity imbedding into the WellCode brand a solution that revolutionised long distance communication over 200 years ago: The Morse Code. The logo consists of the letter C, drawn from two lines of dashes and dots. After decoding, the two lines read ”Well” and ”Code”,

The online platform
The ideea of an online platform where trainees can register and solve problems came as a necessity; a way to filter the ones who really wanted to benefit Petru's mentoring services. When he was offering mentoring services by himself and the demnad became larger, he implemented this sistem, that would act as an entrance exam. Although it wasn't yet named ”WellCode”, the platform had the purpose of teaching clearly structured theoretical information. Moreover, it provided real time evaluation of solutions provided by the trainees.

With the help of his high school room mate, Tiberiu Petru perfected the WellCode platform, which is at the moment the central activity hub for all the trainees who solve algorithm problems.

The platform has an achievement sistem, similar to the one that you might encounter in a video game. This motivates the trainees to keep learning every day and to keep returing to the platform.

Free course
All the information and problems on the platform is structured in modules. These start at a low difficulty level and gradually grow in complexity. The fisrt module is called ”Learn programming from scratch” and it is available for free to anyone who registers with an account. The fact that this course is free and therefore accessible to anyone, gets people more motivated and helps them familiarise with the platform.