The full-stack education paradoxon

I am a young lecturer and passionate about teaching. At my university we have a department dedicated to web development. So I am lucky enough to teach something fancy and new every year but we still need to cover basics of computer science in our courses.

As web developers, we are not recognized for our scientific research but we are still the people pushing the web forward every day/week/month of the year. How do we fit into this classic science ecosystem and do we need the system at all?

Initiatives such as OTS, Rails Girls, nodeschool, Codeweek are quite good in getting people into programming and they are also more inclusive than classic institutions such as universities. So why does someone still think about attending a university? Does anyone really need to go there to learn tooling and programming?

In this talk I will take you on a journey on how my department evolved (now 6 years old) and what we did to address at least a dozen of issues we had with our department within this system.

Our goal is to teach people everything they need to become a Full-stack developer someday.

This covers the content of courses, increasing the diversity in classes, getting science and economy together, finding lecturers, translate theoretical computer science topics into something useful for web developers and so on…

You might have to laugh a lot during this talk but be prepared for the sad parts.

Transcript

1. THE
 FULL-STACK EDUCATION PARADOXON
3. Brigitte Jellinek @bjelline Hannes Moser @eliias
4. Austria
6. Web Development MultiMediaTechnology
8. University Of Applied Sciences Salzburg
9. 60+ Lecturers
10. 120Students
11. 40Projects/year
12. BACHELOR 3 years since 2008
13. HTML JavaScript CSS HTTP GIT SQL PHP
14. Algorithms and Datastructures Computer Graphis Networking C#
15. Ruby On Rails ES 2015 Web Operations Frontend Development Node.js + npm Interaction Design Agile MV*
16. Design Patterns Distributed Systems Software Project Management Writing Papers Concurrency
17. MASTER
 2 years since 2011
18. Level+
19. Scalable Web Architectures Algorithms for
 the social web Semantic Web And Data Engineering Client-side web engineering
20. Master Thesis Master Project
21. Interdisciplinary Project MultiMediaArt MultiMediaTechnology +
22. tuition* ~360€ / semster
23. Community
24. Mozilla Festival
25. Salzburg Web Dev Meetup
26. 2 talks, hosted by a local company 100% free to attend One event/month since July 2012
28. Three days of talks and workshops Up to 120 attendees 100% free to attend Twice a year (October & March) since March 2011
29. .concat()
30. 50%+ female speakers ~30 diversity tickets Web Development Conference One day, two tracks sold out since March 2015
32. Do you work at a university?
33. Let’s collaborate!
34. HTW$Berlin FH$Salzburg
35. Want to study web- development?
36. Bachelor 3*Jahre ~40*Plätze Master 2*Jahre ~20*Plätze Abitur/Matura Apprenticeship Job Other*bachelor degree Job Job Dr./Ph.D
37. Do you run a web company?
38. Internships
39. Have you ever thought about teaching?
40. Do you have something interesting to talk about?
41. Vision
42. You should be able to study Web Development at a university near you If you are a student. Demand it! If you are a developer. Offer it! If you are in academia. Get over Java. Embrace the web!
43. THANK YOU https://multimediatechnology.at