General Plan and Time-line
The goal is to plan, test and offer a course on programming for social-justice-motivated students. This course would deal with programming basics, application design, usability, testing, documentation as well as the various tools.¶

• Winter 2008: Test Run
  • Offer a Socy30B section or Socy group tutorial for 6-8 students interested in basic programming or some aspect of application design and programming. This is to prepare the instructors with a test experience that will lead to a full course offering in Spring.
• Spring 2008: 5 unit Socy Course
  • Programming for Social Justice

Principles and Concepts¶

• Collaboration
• Hacker Ethic
• Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS)
• Design Principles
• Agile Methods www.agilemanifesto.org
• Model View Controller
• Basic Ruby programming
• Version Control
• Database

Books and Readings¶

free software, hacker ethic

• Hacker Ethic
• Eric Raymond’s Cathedral and the Bazaar
• Biella’s short talk on the anthropology of the hacker ethic
• floss comic book from sarai

principles of design

• Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity
• Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
• principles of design

programming

• Learn to Program (Chris Pine)
• Rails Social Networking book (Apress)?
• free documentation at ruby-lang.org

Ideas for Projects¶

• Meeting scheduler
• Grants/Scholarship DB
• Asset Manager / File sharer
• Maps or other mashups?

Class Outline and Paths¶

Interactive tutorials¶

• try ruby in a web browser
• hacketyhack (only works on windows or linux).

software¶

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Logistics¶

movies¶

• Trusted Computing
• Creative Commons