Learn to code in one weekend! (February 21-23)

Back by popular demand, the HBS TechMedia’s Education Team is partnering up with FirehoseWeekend to bring MBA students an exclusive coding bootcamp. This is the perfect event for non-technical people to learn how to build a web application in one intense Drink-from-the-Firehose Weekend. You’ll learn how to build an awesome web application using Ruby on Rails, HTML5, CSS3, Github and Heroku, gain a clear understanding of how the whole technical process of building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) works, and improve your communication skills with developers.

The class is taught by two web developers and UX experts, who have created this same FirehoseWeekend event in multiple cities and mentor young entrepreneurs in building products people want. Both have years of experience building products people want for some of the most successful startups in Boston (WHERE.com/eBay/PayPal/peerTransfer/Jana).

Schedule for the Weekend of 02/21-02/23:

• Friday Night (6:30PM-10PM): Software Install Night. We help you get the tools you’ll use for the rest of the weekend up and running on your machine.
• Saturday (9AM-6PM): Get the Web Development low-down. Create your initial project. Write code all day long together with instructors leading the class.
• Sunday (9AM-5PM): Write more code, finalize features, wrap up changes. Get application live. Show it to the world.
• Sunday (5PM): Afterparty. Drink Beer and celebrate with us.

This event is open to TechMedia Club members and non-members. Sign-ups will close by Friday 02/21 and are limited to the first 25 respondents. The cost to attend is $150 for TechMedia Club members and $200 for non-members (compared to $400 to take the course regularly). Please do not sign-up if you cannot commit to the entire weekend (attendance will be taken each day).

Link to register: https://harvard-firehoseweekend.eventbrite.com

Instructor Bios:

• Marco Morawec is a web developer and UX product manager. He currently builds MVPs for Startups and is a Startup Institute web dev alum and Angelhack (Boston’s biggest Hackathon) winner. Previously he was the user experience lead for peerTransfer building a $500M international tuition payment platform.
• Ken Mazaika is a Ruby on Rails web developer. Previously he has worked at PayPal/eBay. He is a Startup Institute instructor for the WebDev track and a Ruby on Rails contributor.

You can learn more about the event at firehoseweekend.com and ask any questions directly to the instructors at [email protected] and [email protected]