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INT-1.3 and INT-2.3 Spring Intensive

Course Description (Course Tracker)

Proposal Approvals and Office Hours: make.sc/int-help-portal

Intensive courses are hands on, immersive experiences designed to give students time to apply their skills to building original products (website or apps) and practice software engineering skills. The course is a week of coding all day with daily check ins and feedback from instructors on progress, short instructional session on key concepts, and ongoing support from instructors and classmates. In Spring Intensive 1 the focus is on user testing, shipping products as well best practices and steps to build and pitch an original product in a week. The Intensive culminates with a Demo Night in which each student pitches their product to their classmates, industry professionals and recruiters.

INT 1.3 Spring Intensive 1 is for Juniors while INT 2.3 Spring Intensive 2 is for Seniors. Students will work on similar skills with different evaluation criteria and expectations.

Prerequisites:

  • None

Learning Objectives

Students by the end of this intensive will be able to ...

  1. Build and ship an app or product in your language concentration
  2. Explain the value of your product via a product pitch
  3. Provide and receive constructive feedback on your app idea, designs, and code
  4. Scope your product effectively
  5. Ship products efficiently

Schedule

Intensive Dates: Monday, March 16 – Friday, March 27 (12 days)

Note:

Session Times: Attendance is required from 9:30 to 5:30 every day including the following sessions on the schedule:

Date Time Topics
Monday, 3/16 9:30-10:30am Intensive Kickoff Ceremony
10:30-11:00am Make School Portfolio
11:00am-12:30pm, 1:30-5:30pm Proposal Approval
Tuesday, 3/17 9:30 am-9:55am Checkin Standup
10:00 am-10:50am Accessibility + Scoping your product effectively
Wednesday, 3/18 9:30 am-9:55am Checkin Standup
10:00 am-10:50am Debugging with Jess
Thursday, 3/19 9:30 am-9:55am Checkin Standup
10:00 am-10:50am Shipping Is A Superpower
Monday, 3/23 9:30 am-9:55am Checkin Standup
10:00 am-10:50am User Testing
Tuesday, 3/24 9:30 am-9:55am Checkin Standup
Wednesday, 3/25 10:00am-12:00pm Pitch Presentations

Part II - Portfolio Improvement and Career Readiness

Please choose one of the following options to complete by 9am on Monday morning. Turn in your artifact/deliverable for your task in the tracker.

  1. Pick an old project, improve it and add it to your portfolio. Turn in project live link or code link
  2. Pick a new language, framework, or tool and complete a brief beginner tutorial/app with it. Turn in github repo
  3. Pick a technical topic and write a 1500 word blog post about it. Turn in link to article
  4. Reach out to 10 potential industry contacts and try to set up 2-3 phone conversations. Turn in spreadsheet of icon's names and linkedin profiles you reached out to.
  5. Write a tutorial (written in Markdown) for how to build a simple project or implement a particular library or feature. Turn in github repo.
  6. Other: please confirm with your standup instructor. Choices must have a concrete deliverable/artifact that can be turned in

Evaluation

To pass this course you must meet the following requirements:

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