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

Spring Term 2024
Mode: In Person
Program: Undergraduate
Unique ID
27450
Day Start End Building Room
  • Monday
  • Wednesday
  • 03:30 PM
  • 03:30 PM
  • 05:00 PM
  • 05:00 PM
  • SZB
  • SZB
  • 4.508
  • 4.508

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).

Restrictions

Registration prioritized for undergraduate Informatics majors through registration period 1, with access being extended to Informatics minors beginning in period 2. Outside students will be permitted to join our waitlists beginning with period 3.

Notes

a more up-to-date live syllabus can be found on the course GitHub site here: https://howisonlab.github.io/open_source_software_course/current/oss_sy…