Code & Collaborate Brief

In the course "Code and Collaborate," students will embark on a journey to become effective team members with a focus on fostering collaboration skills. Throughout the program, they will gain proficiency in communication and collaboration. This comprehensive course aims to equip students with the necessary skills to function as collaborative team members in a professional setting while exploring the more collaborative aspects of coding. Students will work together in a cross-functional team to design and develop a website feature, applying design thinking principles and agile development methodologies. Additionally, they will delve into different aspects of code quality, learning about tools and principles to design and develop high-quality prototypes.

In "Code and Collaborate" students will get to explore the more collaborative aspects of coding by working together in a cross-functional team to design and develop a website from scratch. They will get the opportunity to explore and apply design thinking principles.

The desired outcome of the course is for the Front-End Developers to collaborate in creating a basic portfolio website. This hands-on experience will allow students to apply their classroom learning to a real-world project, fostering teamwork and skill development.

The learning sessions of this course include - Creating wireframes and prototypes of user interfaces, including understanding the basics of UI design principles; Testing and iterating on designs with users, including using feedback to refine and improve the design.

In summary

The Code and Collaborate course focuses on developing effective team members by enhancing collaboration skills among Frontend Developer students. During the project the students will learn communication, agile development, and code quality principles. The course aims to equip students with the ability to work collaboratively in professional settings and explore collaborative coding aspects. By working on a website feature in cross-functional teams, applying design thinking and agile methodologies, students gain practical experience in UI design, coding standards, and project management, facilitated by peer learning and industry feedback.

At the end of this project the student can deliver the following to their client:

Web based key feature/page/portfolio website along with documentation of the feature/page explaining the key elements and methods used.

The exact nature of the deliverables would depend on the specifics of the project and the needs of the client. They would be agreed upon by the students and the client at the beginning of the project and refined throughout the process based on the findings and insights.

In this collaborative experience the students will apply a Design Thinking approach following the process of empathise, define, ideate, prototype and test alongside the Hyper Island Experience Based Learning process of doing, reflecting, generalising and applying. In connection with this, the client will take an active role in providing feedback-loops and anchoring the process and progress of the work to their business needs.

Meetings: The client and the student team are expected to meet at least once a week.

What to expect add remove

In a Learning Partnership companies and students meet to exchange value; the students get an opportunity to learn new skills by practical implementation of the learning goals of their coursework and the client gets project deliveries in the form of strategies, reports or production of creative material and assets. Important to remember for clients is that you will be working with students still in training, who will do their best to meet expectations within the brief, but who is still “learning by doing” and who will once the project ends, move on to their next course.

Time allotment add remove

Projects are around 4-6 weeks, during this time you should be available for about 2-4 hours a week to support and touch base with students as they go and to feedback continuously. The students will alongside their project with you have a parallel learning track with workshops, seminars and similar to support and enable them to solve the challenges from the brief successfully.

Ownership add remove

You have ownership over the ideas and concepts presented by students, to further develop and implement them. An NDA will be applied to ensure sensitive business information remains tightly within the collaboration.

Sponsorship fee add remove

We ask participating companies to pay a sponsorship fee to work with our students. This allows us to fund a team of three people working with Learning Partnerships across all of our full time YH programs in Sweden; ensuring quality of project briefs for our students to get practical training in real client projects as well as supporting the clients in the collaboration. It also supports us to continuously develop our programs and ensure future talent to the industry.

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