In India the education system is more about "learning by heart" then is it by "understanding concepts". As A student I have always felt this and have been frustrated about it, Hence I want to try a few changes in my own college.
Since learning by heart is definitely not going to work for computer science by far, I thought it would be a better option to learn by doing common work flows and let them have hands on or let them make what we define as side projects and learn things that book don't teach but are cool to use. (This is purely voluntary for students to join and spans with their curriculum of 6 months+)
It happens on sunday and is expected to be a small side project thing, the aim is to learn technologies and build things that are actually functional as opposed to what is taught in books.
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The participants meet on every weekends for 2 hours in a lab, share their current work and experiences with each other, though there is going to be a flow that will guide the whole process but this all is going to be a collaborative effort, where somebody who knows X will help teaching the rest thing to others.
Simple tools that make life easy, it could be an app to find the nearest pharmacy It could be something that verifies validity of some auto etc.
These simple apps that make life easy, and are do-able in 1 month of time.. while doing these we will learn a lot
- Some good things
1.0 Why should you start writing code now.
1.1 Version Control ( GIT ) -- Like hell
1.2 Decide what you want to build by next 2 - 4 weeks.
- Lets build it
2.1 JavaScript a Primer ( Basics of writing small applications with JavaScript ).
2.2 Basics of PHP / Python.
2.3 Seperation of Concerns.
2.4 Writing code using components.
2.8 PhoneGap it !
- And it will be deployed on
3.1 Heroku.
3.2 Push it to the app stores.
3.3 ENJOY EVERY PRODUCT BUILT :D yiiha!!
Honestly, I feel I do not want my juniors or infact anyone to go to the industry and just be a mindless person, who get a shock when they join their first job. Plus learning to code now and doing real code will enlighten and help them grasping concepts taught to them at a faster rate. Knowledge is best when shared, I myself will learn a lot in the phase. I myself plan to follow the flow while working with peers ! so rather work with them, instead of teach them like a tutor.
The changes that can be caused by these are awesome :D and unprecedented.
Contribute, fork this gist add pointers, PHP / JS Room - please add a file resources-language.md where one can find resources or good tutorials / articles on what they are going to do.
We would love to have code reviews.
If you have any idea that is do-able in a month, please add to ideas.md
If you can / or want to educate them by giving them a video, That can be done --- infact I would love to have talks from any of you. but for the talks please mail me at abhishek@goph.me