Welcome to Home Grown Programmers!

The younger generation tends to quickly grasp fundamentals of computers and other electronic gadgets while their parents often struggle with the same items. As the information age explosion continues, virtually every facet of life will demand a basic familiarity with relevant technologies from all citizens. Beyond simple familiarity, those with a solid grasp of computer programming and underlying Information Technology (IT) skills will be well-equipped not only to cope, but to lead and excel. Home Grown Programmers provides full spectrum IT educational support, as well as Advanced Math and Science courses.

Reasons to use our learning platform

Grading is handled with a computer. Our internet courses, are set up with a schedule to reinforce time management, student's work completion is monitored and each test answer option and wrong answer is captured for instructor evaluation and student learning error resolution.

Students learn better with a mentor. Although some can complete our classes by themselves, some will still struggle. We help to remove the frustration that can result from parents attempting to explain the complex and the student trying to understand. Often students become class mentors, further strengthening the subject matter in our required Forum interaction.

Personalized Instruction. Our grading and tracking approach effectively points to student errors while electronically tracking the problem for proactive teacher resolution. Our teacher collaboration approach involves using VOIP, desktop sharing, Forums, Blogs and Online chats provide a wide array of knowledge advancement tools.

Electronic Portfolio. Each course can be printed at course completion to provide a published record of the students grade and quiz answers. This can be a real time saver for those college admission records.

From tapping into your child’s natural desire to learn these sometimes intimidating courses, we are available to help you direct your student into scholastic leadership from our home to yours.

Why Consider Home Grown Programmers?

The vision of the IT professionals at HGP is to partner with parents and demonstrate solid values and wholesome ethics while weaving though the complexity of computer programs, software programming and higher math.

Fueled by a cadre of solid, ethical students who find that they “start dreaming in a programming language” or discover that they are “designed for IT”, HGP envisions a business segment transformation of seismic scale in the Computer Gaming, Software Development, and Digital Movie Production sectors, impacting these traditionally underprincipled industries in a powerfully positive way.

Information Technology is one of the fastest growing fields in the world.  It is estimated that more than 500,000 new jobs will be created by 2014 accorded to a US Department of Labor Study (see Getting A Head Start Page).  The IT revolution continues to change the global landscape, and many colleges & universities now require a minimum of one year of high school programming experience to even be considered for admission.  Regardless of what field students pursue, it is clear that those without solid computer and math skills their career choices will be substantially disadvantaged.  However, there are currently limited opportunities for homeschool students to learn these essential skills.  HGP provides this opportunity interactively through distance learning with highly qualified teachers and proven professionals from the IT industry.

Our Goal

At Home Grown Programmers, our goal is to put the student at ease in a world where Information and Internet Technologies are growing exponentially.

We offer classes that are:
• Taught interactively online by seasoned professional programmers and math mentors
• Parent - Mentor partnership for tailored instruction
• No cost for parent to audit classroom instruction
• No travel involved to get to the teacher or classroom
• Mentor led Forum interaction
• Voice Over IP audio for no additional cost on your broadband connection
• All content available online
• Apprenticeships opportunities after technical expertise evaluation

For those who thrive in the fascinating world of Information Technology, HGP also offers outstanding mentorship/apprenticeship programs that provide a chance to work under an experienced IT professional, learn about computers, and earn a paycheck at the same time. This combination has been effectively proven, time and time again, to benefit everybody involved.

It’s time to get involved in the thrilling, intricate world of computers!
View an in-depth presentation about our program here.

Have questions? View our list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) here.