Hacking the academic experience
summary
Claims that US tech will need 1.4 million jobs by 2020 and universities only fill 30%, teaches web development with Ruby on Rails using Mongoid and MongoDB, and scores students midcourse (40 responses: 97% say the class feels more practical; 90% already have GitHub; 50% tried hackathons). Exercises include an authentication skeleton with five intentional bugs and a final team project: a deployed app students build to manage course needs; prior work includes a Rails app to log conservation samplings in Paris.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Start
- 0:11Hacking the Academic Experience
- 4:52Traditional/ untraditional background
- 10:33My only option was to find resources myself.
- 16:48This type of class is rare, and not just at Columbia.
- 18:18curriculum reflect industry
- 21:19A hacker-centric curriculum is critical in academia, given how we define ourselves.
- 22:39Developing a hacker-centric curriculum at Columbia
- 32:175 Hacker Habits
- 34:431 Treat the internet as your textbook.
- 34:5321 Able to debug code you didn't write.
- 36:50Build Something to solve a real-life problem.
- 39:43Engage with the community.
- 41:11Think critically about code.
- 42:59Getting involved as a hacker
- 43:54There are many benefits
