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https://github.com/yasslab/weekend_fabrication

A create-share-learn cyclic course for students in Okinawa, Japan
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A create-share-learn cyclic course for students in Okinawa, Japan

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README 

          
Japanese Description is [HERE](https://github.com/yasulab/weekend_fabrication/blob/master/README.md). | 日本語は[コチラ](https://github.com/yasulab/weekend_fabrication/blob/master/README.md)から。



This is a single site repository that explains Weekend Fabrication course via README.md.



This repository includes the following contents:



1. What's Weekend Fabrication course?

2. How to run this course? (Japanese only)

3. Feedbacks from students.

4. FAQ (Japanese only)



Details in English will be added upon demand.



# What's Weekend Fabrication course?



Weekend Fabrication is a lean-startup-based course that 

teaches students in Okinawa, Japan, about how to make web/mobile 

applications and English, where students need to 

1) implement something he/she wants, 2) show it to others, 

and 3) decide what to create/update/delete in the next week. 



All students taking this course repeats this process every week.

At the end of the term, they will give presentations of their

final product(s) in English to the media in Okinawa.



__The number of active users is important, so if one of your product gets them, it's perfect. But the most impotant thing of this course is to acquire the mind set of individual thinking through tons of fabrications.__



This course is now integrated with [Lexues Academy](http://academy.lexues.co.jp/seminar/making.php).



## Concept



__The number of actual users of your product is important, yet the most impotant thing in this academy is to acquire the mind set of individual thinking, through tons of fabrications.__



### Criteria



- How often the graduates make things AFTER Weekend Fabrication (with individual thinking)?



## System (draft image)



### The way to enhance superior students much better.



![System(draft)](https://raw.github.com/yasulab/weekend_fabrication/master/images/concept_draft.jpg)



## Model



![Model](https://raw.github.com/yasulab/weekend_fabrication/master/images/model.png)



# Media



- [沖縄の技術者がアツい！ハッカソンレポ＆代表者に聞いた](http://www.atmarkit.co.jp/fjava/rensai4/community01/02.html)

- [週末ものづくり講座｜Weekend Fabrication](http://www.wizdom.cs.waseda.ac.jp/weekend-fabrication/)



# References



This course was created through my experiences that include studying/working abroad, startup/opensource projects, and the ideas from the following books/talks.



- Refs for Course Concept:

  - [The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work](http://www.amazon.com/Happiness-Advantage-Principles-Psychology-Performance/dp/0307591549)

  - [Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us](http://www.amazon.com/Drive-Surprising-Truth-About-Motivates/dp/1594484805)

  - [The Gamification of Learning and Instruction: Game-based Methods and Strategies for Training and Education](http://www.amazon.co.jp/The-Gamification-Learning-Instruction-Game-based/dp/1118096347/)

  - [Serious Games: Games That Educate, Train, and Inform](http://www.amazon.com/Serious-Games-Educate-Train-Inform/dp/1592006221)

  - [Fab: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop -- from Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication](http://www.amazon.com/Fab-Revolution-Desktop-Computers-Fabrication/dp/0465027466)

  - [The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses](http://www.amazon.com/The-Lean-Startup-Entrepreneurs-ebook/dp/B004J4XGN6)

  - [Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works](http://www.amazon.com/Running-Lean-Iterate-Works-Series/dp/1449305172)

  - [From Stanford to Startup, Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture Series, Stanford University](http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2735)

  - [Race Against The Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy](http://www.amazon.com/kindle-store/dp/B005WTR4ZI)

  - [FCバルセロナの人材育成術 - なぜバルサでは勝利と育成が両立するのか](http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/4905154154/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=247&creative=1211&creativeASIN=4905154154&linkCode=as2&tag=yasulab-22)

  - [自分のアタマで考えよう，ちきりん](http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E8%87%AA%E5%88%86%E3%81%AE%E3%82%A2%E3%82%BF%E3%83%9E%E3%81%A7%E8%80%83%E3%81%88%E3%82%88%E3%81%86-%E3%81%A1%E3%81%8D%E3%82%8A%E3%82%93/dp/4478017034)

  - [採用基準，伊賀 泰代](http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E6%8E%A1%E7%94%A8%E5%9F%BA%E6%BA%96-%E4%BC%8A%E8%B3%80-%E6%B3%B0%E4%BB%A3/dp/4478023417)

- Refs for Basic Skills(Reading, Listening, Writing, and Speaking):

  - English: [The Official Guide to the New TOEFL iBT, ETS](http://www.amazon.co.jp/Official-Guide-TOEFL-CD-ROM-Edition/dp/0071766588/ref=dp_ob_title_bk)

  - Japanese: [明文術 伝わる日本語の書きかた](http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E6%98%8E%E6%96%87%E8%A1%93-%E4%BC%9D%E3%82%8F%E3%82%8B%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E8%AA%9E%E3%81%AE%E6%9B%B8%E3%81%8D%E3%81%8B%E3%81%9F-%E9%98%BF%E9%83%A8-%E5%9C%AD%E4%B8%80/dp/4757101961)

- Refs for Producing Ideas:

  - [A Technique for Producing Ideas: The simple, five-step formula anyone can use to be more creative in business and in life!](http://www.amazon.com/Technique-Producing-Ideas-five-step-creative/dp/1434102750/)

- Refs for Design & Prototyping:

  - [Bootcamp Bootleg, d.school, Stanford University](http://dschool.stanford.edu/use-our-methods/)

  - [The Non-Designer's Design Book](http://www.amazon.co.jp/Non-Designers-Design-Book-The-Designers/dp/0321534042/ref=dp_ob_title_bk)

  - [Desining Interface (2e)](http://designinginterfaces.com/)

  - [Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (2e)](http://www.sensible.com/dmmt.html)

- Refs for Programming:

  - [The Art of Readable Code](http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596802301.do)

  - * This depends on what things the students would like to make.

- Refs for Online Marketing & Pricing:

  - [The Whuffie Factor: Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business](http://www.amazon.com/Whuffie-Factor-Social-Networks-Business/dp/0307409503)

  - [Don't Just Roll the Dice - a usefully short guide to software pricing](http://neildavidson.com/download/dont-just-roll-the-dice/)

- Refs for Presentation:

  - [Presentation Zen Series](http://www.presentationzen.com/)



# Related Websites

- [Lexues Academy](http://academy.lexues.co.jp/)

- [YassLab](http://yasslab.jp/en/)



# License



(The MIT License)



Copyright © 2013-2015 [YassLab](http://yasslab.jp)



Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:



The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.



THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.