We are happy to announce that UW will again be participating in the Facebook Open Academy (a.k.a. Hacking for Credit) in Winter/Spring 2015. This class presents a unique opportunity for students to gain experience with open source projects and software development. Facebook has hand-picked important open source projects to which students will contribute and has chosen select engineers who will act as mentors to guide students through the development process. We expect that students will learn a lot in this class and encourage any interested students to apply. In particular, prior experience contributing to open-source software projects is NOT required.
For more information please see the course website at http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse495/15wi/. That site includes links to a preliminary list of open source projects and to a catalyst form you should fill out if you are interested in participating in the class.
Course will meet weekly on Thursdays at approximately 4:30PM (time could change depending on who take the course)
If admitted to the course, you’ll be signed up for 2 credits in winter and 2 credits in spring.
The curse number is 495 and it will be graded, so you may use this towards the extra, CSE Senior Electives (but not as a Core Course).
~Hal Perkins – instructor
~CSE Advising