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The outline of a blog post describing the dream-classes that I'd want for a masters in Hack/Hacking.
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How to think like a hacker.

Still think jailbreaking should be spelled with two words and involve police chases? Hackers have a different perspective on the world. Not what does this gadget do, but what can I make it do. This course introduces you to that mentality so you can start thinking like hacker.

A hacks guide to programming in Python

Ever have to change a 100,000 line document from

Building deployable web applications in Django

Grokking JavaScript and jQuery

Telling stories with visualizations

Working with Protovis

Ethics of a RESTful interface

Difference between data and information

Command-line fu

Security online: how to protect yourself and others

Participating in online communities (or: there's more community than Twitter out there)

The IANAL introduction to open-source licenses

Extra credit classes

Semantics and the web

Getting comfortable on CouchDB

Building servers with Node.js

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