This course aims to give students the tools and skills to rapidly develop and transform innovative ideas (of their own choosing) into working projects utilizing advanced mobile, social, cloud, and web technologies. In particular, students will experience the style of development activity that is common in a new startup company. The project based course will be augmented by a series of lectures to accelerate learning with new web technologies, product design, agile development practices, user interface design, and project management. During the term, students will work in teams of 4 students. Each team will be closely mentored by several staff members (including the instructors and one or more members from industry). Students will gain valuable technical skills and experience working in small teams, while facing real-world challenges that include a tight schedule, hard deadlines, and self directed learning.
Projects will include designing and developing a live web system. Each team will also maintain a web page with project documentation and design documents.
See course requirements.
Classes will be on Fridays 2:30-4:30 at ECS 130:
(Tentative schedule, slides are in the resources section)
- Meeting 1, 05/09/2014 - Introduction (Peggy), How to build a software product, Standing on the shoulders of giants, Demo of past projects (Alexey), Forming teams
- Meeting 2, 12/09/2014 - Web development overview, Cloud computing services (Alexey), UI/UX overview lecture (Peggy)
- Meeting 3, 19/09/2014 - Team work, GitHub, and API's (Ian), [Project proposal presentations](presenting your ideas.md)
- Meeting 4, 26/09/2014 - Failing fast in Startup Programming (Arie), Software engineering at Magnet.me (Michael de Jong), Project proposal presentations cont.
- Meeting 5, 10/10/2014 - Team stand-up meeting, Software Management... for people who just want to get stuff done (Cliff), Guest talk (Aidin Tavakkol, CTO and Founder of LimeSpot)
- Meeting 6, 17/10/2014 - [Milestone 1 presentation](milestone 1 - proof of concept.md) - Proof Of Concept
- Meeting 7, 31/10/2014 - Guest talk (Tali Saar, Co-founder and CEO of Palo Alto Rooster), How 2 UVic students started an eBay ecommerce analytics company (Anthony Sukow, EVP & Co-founder Terapeak)
- Meeting 8, 07/11/2014 - [Milestone 2 presentation](milestone 2 - release candidate.md) - Release Candidate
- Meeting 9, 28/11/2014 - Final presentation ([Milestone 3](milestone 3 - public beta.md), Public live BETA)
Mentoring Staff:
- Margaret-Anne Storey
- Alexey Zagalsky
- Cliff McCollum
- Arie Van Deursen
- Ian Bull
Teams and Projects:
View current and past [teams and projects](teams and projects.md).
Reception Hour: By appointment. Friday 1:00-2:00pm at ECS 542a (please send an email to set a meeting)
Contact email: startup.programming@gmail.com
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