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I 320D : Topics in Human-Centered Data Science: Open Source Software Development

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Catalog Description

Practical skills and understandings required to effectively work with open source software and understand the projects that build them. Includes git-based collaboration as well as conceptual understanding of licenses, security, technical and social processes in open source development. Class projects involve working with digital trace data from open source repositories.

Prerequisites

Upper-division standing; Informatics 310D and Informatics 304 (or one of the following approved substitutions: C S 303E, C S 312, C S 312H, C S 313E).

Instructor Topic Title Year Semester Syllabus
James Howison
2025Spring Term
James Howison
Open Source Software Development2024Spring TermSyllabus
James Howison
Open Source Software Development2023Spring TermSyllabus

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