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6.470 Web Programming Competition
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A one-month MIT winter term course in which students learn web programming through lectures, office hours, and guest speakers, culminating in a final competition submission judged for prizes. It has separate rookie and experienced developer tracks.
One commenter points to it as an inspiration for teaching web development, noting its mix of lectures, guest speakers, and a prize-driven final competition.
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Sounds pretty cool. You might want to look at MIT's winter term (one month) web programming competition/class for some inspiration: http://6.470.scripts.mit.edu/2014/.
They do a mixture of lectures, office hours, and guest speakers, and culminate with a final submission for prizes. Not everyone has to enter the competition and there is also a rookie flight and an experienced dev flight so everyone can participate. Gathering corporate/start-up sponsors to get prizes for a contest seems to be a good way to spur interest and motivate people to learn (at least it was for me).