Education Initiatives at Jaaga
freeman murray
I'd like to get more community education stuff going at Jaaga.
There are a number of online classes which we are organizing
study groups for:
- Natural Language Programming | http://nlp-class.org
- Technology Entrepreneurship | http://venture-class.org
- Lean Launchpad | http://launchpad-class.org
- Android Programming |
http://jaaga.in/bangalore-android-class
- Javascript Programming | http://CodeYear.org
- Model Thinking |
http://www.modelthinker-class.org/
The NLP class, Model Thinking class, and Entrepreneurship classes are
being conducted by professors at Stanford who will provide people who
successfully complete the course with a certificate confirming that they are
on par with Stanford Students.
CodeYear.org is an inititiative of Codecademy.com in which they
send out weekly programming assignments to help people thru the
process of learning web development.
The Android class is an intensive study group we are organizing
here in Bangalore with the help of the Bangalore Android User
Group. We are leveraging the developer resources Google publishes
http://developer.android.com/resources. A large part of the class
will be spent working together on projects.
I will facilitate meetups at Jaaga for the
Android, Codeyear, NLP & Entrepreneurships classes.
To support working people each class will have one meetup
on the weekend or weekday night.
Sunday
1:00 - 4:00pm | CodeYear.org
4:30 - 7:30pm | Android
Tuesday
7:30 - 10:00pm | Natural Language Programmign
Thursday
7:30 - 10:00pm | Entrepreneurship
We will have additional meets during the week for people available
during the day.
You can see the full schedule of our educational events here :
https://www.google.com/calendar/b/0/embed?src=ueto14d3dskn1...@group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Asia/Calcutta
If you're interested in participating join the relevant mailing lists
Android | https://groups.google.com/group/blrdroid-class
CodeYear | https://groups.google.com/group/jaaga-codeyear
NLP | https://groups.google.com/group/jaaga-nlp
Lean Launchpad & Technology Entrepreneurship |
https://groups.google.com/group/jaaga-startup
Rajesh Kasturirajan, a professor of cognitive science at NIAS in
Bangalore will be organizing a seminar around the Model Thinking
class.
"Think of it as "Model Thinking ++." His seminar will take the
material offered by Stanford and build thoughts and ideas on top of
it, including annotations, projects etc. The goal is to treat Scott
Page's offering as a spur to our own thinking; in other words, we will
learn what Scott teaches us, add our responses and develop new
creative projects that emerge from discussion within the group. If you
are interested, please send me an email at rkas...@gmail.com and/or
sign up for the google group:
http://groups.google.com/group/bangalore-model-thinking-.
Join Us !!!
Freeman Murray
ps.
I this as a blog post in case you want to link to it
http://www.jaaga.in/jaaga-university