New computer science graduates increased by nearly 30 percent last year, and a group of professionally oriented programming courses have sprung up to teach skills ready start like, "How to build a mobile app." So it makes sense that programming is widely considered to be "plastics" of this generation - a professional qualification Surefire that can bring success, safety and maybe even stock options.
But few people talk about how programming and engineering can be used for pleasure, beauty or surprise.
Now, four people with a variety of backgrounds - in computer science, art, math and design - have joined in Brooklyn to rethink the way programming is taught.
His school, the School of Computing poetic, is meant to be more passionate, free-spirited and driven by curiosity than other types of private coding schools that have emerged in recent years as Hacker School of New York, which is based on projects and creating paid by companies to recruit from their students, or fellows Seattle Code, which provides practical classes in order to get their students a job after graduation.
By contrast, the School of Computing Poetic is taking a different approach. Imagine Robin Williams character in the movie "Dead Poets Society" Objective C teaching instead of "O Captain, my Captain".
School's founders say they want to promote the work that is strange, impractical and magical.
The school motto? "More poems less demos."
A start-up company in its own right, the school has 15 students enrolled for the fall, selected from a pool of 50 applications, which receive no formal credit, but will pay about $ 5,000 to spend 10 weeks DIY, construction and adjust the projects of their own design.
"People come from a programming background, and thinking how I can make art with these skills? Things that are whimsical? Dreams?" Said Zach Lieberman, one of the four founders and teachers of the school, who has taught at the Parsons School of Design as its partners, has one foot in the world of technology and one in the art world.
First crop of school students include both traditional programmers and designers, but also a beatboxer of Canada, and a Ph.D. candidate studying criminal justice you want to use data visualization to highlight the problems in the prison system, said Lieberman.
Although it is forming the curriculum, a look at the previous works of the instructors gives an idea of the types of projects students could face.
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