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Rails Conf 2013 Hacking the academic experience by Emily Stolfo

550 views · Published 29 May 2013 · 37:58 · Indexed 4 November 2026

Channel: Confreaks · 2013 · Science & Technology

Coming from a hacker background, I've continually been surprised by how frequently new grads lacked the skills needed, particularly in community learning. When I was asked to teach Ruby on Rails at Columbia University I observed that a significant number of the skills required to become successful professionals in the industry are acquired on the job and aren't being taught in school.
This presentation will review: 
- Lessons learned from the experience teaching in my alma mater's CS program. 
- How I developed a hacker-centric curriculum teaching not only the algorithms, but the keys to being a successful developer in the modern open source driven Rails community. 
- How we as hackers can fix this.

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Rails Conf 2013 Hacking the academic experience by Emily Stolfo

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