August has been a busy, intense, and important month for BitDegree. As the month progressed more and more ideas were brought to light. The team has been working non-stop to deliver new projects and polishing the work that we’ve been planning since last month. There has also been a massive party in BitDegree to celebrate the second birthday of our company. After reflecting on our achievements, progress, what’s completed, and what’s to come — we went straight back to work. Now we can review what we’ve accomplished together. So grab your tea, coffee or any other beverage and let’s head straight into the updates.

BitDegree’s 2nd Birthday

On the 23rd of August, our team was celebrating the company’s birthday. It’s great to look back and see what we have achieved in such a little amount of time. The team played games, ate cake, and spent time with each other to celebrate the milestone.

We started the day with a buffet of McDonald’s finest Big Mac’s for lunch. A lot of french fries were consumed during the feast. After that, we took some time to look over the accomplishments and memories of the company. Everything that happened throughout the two years and remembered the people that joined the team, and those that left to pursue new adventures. Later on in the day, we’ve created our visionary plans of what BitDegree will look like in 5 years. The presentations turned out to be full of inside jokes and memes, but everyone had a fantastic time presenting their thoughts and listening to what their colleagues think.

If you want to check out how different teams envision BitDegree 2024, here are links to some of the presentations created during the celebration:

Learn Team — https://www.bitdegree.org/learn/best-code-editor/z3EMQD3v/10

Marketing Team — https://www.bitdegree.org/learn/best-code-editor/DlaOBX3P/4

BitDegree Scholarships

As you may have seen in the previous monthly update, we have been working on bringing transparency to online scholarships. Our team has been working on creating the absolute best scholarship system. Plenty of restless hours were devoted to making it work and make all ends meet. Now that the task is complete, it’s up to you to decide if it meets all expectations. If you would like to check the full article about this new project, you can find it on our press page. But here’s a summary of it — the scholarship forms are open, and we’ve already received many applications from talented students all over the world. Many users have also given us suggestions on how we can improve the system, making it the best version yet. The sponsorship page has also launched — it features learners that were accepted to the scholarship program and are now eligible to receive funds for their education. If you still haven’t enrolled for a scholarship, you can do so right here. If you want to check out the sponsorship page or provide funds to a motivated student, you can find their stories here.

BitDegree Coding Contest

Let’s dial-up and flash to the past with the BitDegree code example contest. As the sweet summertime is coming to an end, everyone is getting ready for their next school year. We are happy to see that our community is ever-growing. Now we want to present to you something that will help your self-improvement during the learning month. So let’s have one more amazing and fun adventure with a coding contest, hosted by BitDegree, and greet autumn with a joyous smile. Take part in the competition and create a retro website of your imagination. Best entries will receive prizes varying from online courses to cool BitDegree merch. Head on to the contest page and submit your entry right over here.

BitDegree Tutorial Translations

Last month, we introduced a new locale for our tutorials for our Russian users. In August, our translation team took it to the next level and made the tutorials available in both Indonesian and Portuguese. Many of our users can now enjoy the content in their native languages.

The tutorials are now available in a total of 4 languages — English, Russian, Portuguese, and Indonesian. In the upcoming weeks, our fantastic translation team will begin working towards creating our tutorials in Spanish and French. Let’s lead them on with a smile and wish them good luck!

BitDegree in The News

BitDegree has been mentioned in one of the latest articles on Freelancer! We are recommended as the best platform, where students are advised to take learning paths. It is nice to see that more people recognize our project and view it as top quality. If you would like to read up on the full article, click here. Upwards and onwards!

Progress with Octalysis

Our work with Octalysis is still ongoing. A lot of progress has been done towards remaking BitDegree with gamification. At the moment, we can’t share a lot of the feature, but just for our viewers, we can give a sneak peek of how the all-new BitDegree City will look like. Here it is:

You can expect more updates to arrive in the upcoming month. Hopefully, we will have much more to show for our users. All we can say now is that the upcoming new experience will be truly breathtaking.

BitDegree Stats

Throughout August, the BitDegree platform has increased in popularity drastically. The statistics show that we are receiving an increase in new users by 17% and course enrolments by 20% in comparison to last month. It’s great to know that our growth is steady and quite significant. Hopefully, these numbers will only rise in the upcoming months.

Conclusion

As you can see, we are restless here at BitDegree. We will keep on working to bring you the best news of the platform and polish any loose ends in our projects. Enough of birthday cakes and celebrations, we are ready to dive into September and produce more magic. We hope you will follow us on this journey. Until then, let’s prepare for the coding contest and once again — Happy Birthday, BitDegree!