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Aleshia Howell, Center, is the program coordinator at Arizona FORGE (Finding Opportunities and Resources to Grow Entrepreneurs) and moderator of the Computer Science and Career Services Program. Andy Le, left, and Ping Hsu serve as mentors for the program.

Rick Wiley Photos, Arizona Daily Star

If you’ve been considering a career in computing, a free program from Startup Tucson and Arizona FORGE can help you find out if a job in cyberspace is right for you.

The not-for-profit startup group of companies and Arizona FORGE – a University of Arizona people development and business accelerator – are launching the Basic Computer Science course in their shared space in the historic downtown Roy Place building.

Applications for the first of two scheduled 11-week sessions of the Computer Science and Career Services program, also known as., Are open now [CS]2.

The program is initially run in four-hour sessions on Saturdays from late January to mid-March and uses an introductory computer science curriculum developed at Harvard University. An online briefing session is scheduled for November 16. To register for the session or apply for the program, go to startuptucson.com/cs2.

The program, funded by the City of Tucson, was launched as a pilot to meet a local need for computer programmers and software developers, said Dre Thompson, executive vice president of Startup Tucson.

“We’re constantly understaffed and understaffed for developers in our region, and this is a huge problem our startups face,” said Thompson.

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