RSSStanford University offering course in Facebook application design this fall
September 14th, 2007
Stanford students will find a new addition to the Computer Science department’s course offerings this fall:
CS 377W
“Create Engaging Web Applications Using Metrics and Learning on Facebook”
3-5 units
Tues & Thurs: 2:15 - 5:05
Although the Facebook Platform only launched three and a half months ago, Facebook marketing guru Dave McClure and BJ Fogg, Director of Stanford’s Persuasive Technology Lab, have teamed up to lead an experimental new course in Facebook application design.
The course will actually not focus on the technical aspects of Platform development, but rather it will bear the thumbprints of McClure’s passion for startup metrics and Fogg’s focus on designing persuasive and engaging user experiences.
Fogg and McClure hope to attract students from various departments (including the 
business school), and students will work on small teams to create three projects throughout the quarter.
Here’s the Facebook group for the class, which has over 280 members.
Kudos to BJ and Dave for setting up such an innovative course so quickly. If I were still a Stanford student, I would rearrange my schedule to take this class. I bet they’ll probably have to find a bigger lecture hall after the first class meeting to accommodate the interest!
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I’m Dan, the head course assistant for the class. There’s a ton of interest and excitement around this class, and things are going really well.
We’ve had two great classes so far and in the spirit of rapid testing, we’re asking our students to launch the first versions of their apps in two weeks.
We’ll post the links to all of our students’ apps as they launch, so stay tuned!
Dan Ackerman Greenberg
http://www.ackermangreenberg.com
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February 13th, 2008 at 12:32 am
I believe this article was focused on how fascinating Facebook is. Too bad the rest of the world doesn’t know that. The aim of Facebook seems to be directed towards college students. That’s why Myspace has more than twice the members; it aims at the community. Facebook has advanced the global communication lines, however, not enough to make a dominant impact.
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