LearnQt Is Becoming Squared Academy

Quick but important update. LearnQt is being rebranded as Squared Academy, the training arm of our company, Squared Computing.

What Is What

• LearnQt is the brand you already know. It is where we have been teaching Qt, C++ and QML for over 10 years, through courses, books, a technical blog and a Discord community of 4,000+ developers. More than 50,000 students have learned with us along the way.
• Squared Computing is our company, based in Nairobi, Kenya. We are an embedded systems engineering company, building custom hardware, firmware, operator interfaces and IoT products for industrial and logistics customers. Our products include ParcelPoint, self-service parcel lockers with mobile money payments, and SquaredIoT, customizable IoT devices with cloud dashboards.
• Squared Academy is the new name for LearnQt, and the training arm of Squared Computing. We teach the engineering most courses and colleges skip, and we cover the tools we are using ourselves in the field: Qt/QML, LVGL and TouchGFX for displays and HMI, Zephyr, FreeRTOS and MbedOS for firmware, embedded Linux, STM32, NXP and Atmel microcontrollers, ARM Cortex and RISC-V, and protocols like CAN, SPI, I²C and RS-485, in C/C++, Rust and Python. We also go into Qt 3D and other 3D imaging technologies. It is all taught through real projects. If you have ever taken one of our courses, you already know how we do this.

In short, Squared Computing builds the hardware, the firmware and the UI running on top, and Squared Academy breaks down the engineering behind it all, so you can learn and apply it yourself.

Why the change

For the last 3 or 4 years, our work has taken us down the rabbit hole of embedded hardware and firmware. Qt, C++ and QML are still what we’re known for, but the scope of what we have to offer has outgrown the LearnQt name. So the name needs to change to match the work.

What this means for you

1. The Qt, C++ and QML content doesn’t change. The content stays exactly as it is. It only reaches deeper now, and gets to cover all those weird hardware devices where Qt and C++ end up running. We even dive into other GUI frameworks like LVGL and TouchGFX, and other languages like Rust and Python.

2. Courses and books are moving to Squared Academy. All of our courses and books will gradually move to squared.academy. We’re building this platform to not be noisy, and to give you all the info you need in one place. Until now, the videos lived on Teachable and the books on Gumroad. All of that will get a single digital home.

3. Our channels become Squared Academy. YouTube, LinkedIn, Discord, X and the others will all carry the Squared Academy name. We will try our best to share as much info as we can about the change as it happens. If you face any issue along the way, just shoot us an email at daniel.g@learnqt.guide and we will do the best we can to help out.

A change to the emails you get from us

All future emails from us will come from a squared.academy address, not from learnqt.guide as they have for the last couple of years. If you are on our mailing list, you will get a formal announcement from us about this change.

And no, we’re not leaving Udemy

We are not stopping our work on Udemy. We’re in fact updating the C++ 23 Masterclass to be 2026-worthy as we speak. If you’re enrolled in that course, be sure to check it out.

What to do now

Nothing, really. Your courses and books are still where you left them, and the move will be gradual. We’ll announce each step as it happens, so you’re never left hunting for something.

If you want to see where this is headed, have a look at squared.academy.

Thank you for learning with us all these years. The best parts are still ahead.

Happy coding!

Daniel.