[asauce]

This is exactly what I was thinking. Software Engineering is a lot more than just writing code, however this blog post makes me think that he is teaching Software Engineering to a completely new audience.

It is very easy to overwhelm software students when trying to teach a broad array of topics (especially in a week!). He mentioned that his students ran into challenges such as not understanding the difference between 'python foo.py' and 'python3 foo.py'. How can you expect these students to overcome these beginner challenges and then still learn topics such as git, CI, machine learning (!!), functional programming, concurrency, processes, etc!

These topics can take years to learn properly, and require a good foundation. Maybe I didn't understand the purpose of this course, but it seems pretty insane

[ticmasta]

It's a smell that a course that dedicates an hour to object-oriented programming even mentions UML.

Wouldn't your audience be far better served if you offered dozens of focused sprint classes (1 topic; 1 hour) rather than some sort of eclectic marathon?