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Dev Degree – A Big Bet on Software Education

• barry-cotter 8y ago
  > The core of the Dev Degree model is building tighter feedback loops between theory and practice while layering programming and personal growth skills early on. Each semester students take 3 courses at University and spend 25 hours a week at Shopify. > But there’s also a strong link to validating that competencies are acquired. The partner university allocates at least 20% of the degrees credits for their work done with Shopify development teams. Students write a practicum report at the end of every term (every four months) and submit the practicum report to the university. In the practicum, the student describes how they have achieved specific learning outcomes. The learning outcomes used in the Dev Degree program were influenced by standards from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IEEE Computer Society.