You’ll work by yourself (or in a group) to design, code, and ship your own new app, website or data analysis report. This product (app or website) will be part of your project “portfolio” that employers will eventually look at when hiring. On the last day of intensive, you’ll pitch your product to classmates.
INT 1.3 is for Juniors while INT 2.3 is for Seniors. Students will work on similar skills with different evaluation criteria and expectations.
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Students by the end of this intensive will be able to ...
- Build and ship an app or product in your language concentration
- Explain the value of your product via a product pitch
- Provide and receive constructive feedback on your app idea, designs, and code
- Scope your product effectively
- Ship products efficiently
- Create high quality README.md’s
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Course Dates: Monday, March 15 – Tuesday, March 23 (9 days)
Class Times: Attendance is required from 9:30 to 5:30 every day.
Session Times: Attendance is required from 9:30 to 5:30 every day including the following sessions on the schedule:
| Date | Time | Topics |
|---|---|---|
| Monday, 3/15 | 9:30-10:30am | Intensive Kickoff Ceremony |
| 10:30-12:00pm | Workshop: Deep Learning with Keras (Jess) | |
| 12:30pm-2:00pm | Workshop: 2D Games with Pygame and OOP (Meredith) | |
| Tuesday, 3/16 | 9:30-10:50am | Working with animations in iOS (Adriana) |
| Monday, 3/22 | 9:30 am-10:50am | Pitch Tips: Engaging Audience |
| Tuesday, 3/23 | 9:30 am-9:55am | Pitch Presentations |
| Wednesday, 3/25 | 1:45 – 2:45pm | Last chance to submit your work (on Gradescope) |
| 3 – 5pm. | Intensive Pitches |
To pass this course you must meet the following requirements:
- Attend all class sessions
- Submit intensive assignments on gradescope on time.
- Final Submission: submit final pitches via Gradescope.
- ** Create and submit a screencast of your pitch for potential employers. 2-3 mintues long video showing your product while you're explaing your project.
- **Pitch slides & presentation - passes if scores above a 1 on the Presentation Rubric.
- Should be 3 min in length and include the following four slides at a minimum: Problem, Current Solutions, My Solution, Call-To-Action.
- Product Pitches will occur on last day of intensive event. Each student/group will present their product. (Class slides)
- **Final Product passes if it meets all of the following
- Juniors:
- achieve 2 of 3 objectives. Also score an average of above a 1.5 on the Intensive Project Rubric
- Seniors: achieve 2 of 3 objectives on the [Senior Intensive Proposal](on Gradescope).
- Juniors:
- Pass: Students must pass both Pitches and Final Product in order to pass the intensive
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