Microtalk: Hacking the Academic Experience
summary
Course shows a hacker-centric curriculum that uses Ruby on Rails with MongoDB, GitHub and Heroku, forces students to use Stack Overflow and Meetup, and requires a rake task CSV importer and an authentication skeleton with five bugs so students learn to reverse engineer code they didn’t write. The semester produces three strong Rails apps (one chosen for next year) and documents that US Department of Labor predicts 1.4 million jobs by 2020 while universities fill ~30%, so practical skills are missing.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:38Academia && Hacking 1. Hacker-centric curriculum 2. Getting involved as a hacker
- 2:17Developing a hacker-centric curriculum
- 4:08debug code you
- 5:12Build something to solve a real-life problem.
- 6:45Engage with the community.
- 8:05Think critically about code.
- 9:52We need to bring hacking to academia and academia to hacking.
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