Ha! In 2013-14 I teamed up with another technical and a non-technical Booth student to create a class called Booth Hacks to teach MBAs and other UChicago students how to code in a practical way ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/boothhacks/ ). I have been coding for 20 years, so I co-wrote and co-taught the lectures. It was an 8 week, 3hrs week course and its success allowed us to convince Booth to offer a real RoR class to its students the following year (your year). You started at Booth the year I graduated. We also worked to launch the MBA/CS joint degree program that is now live. I was not allowed to compete in the New Venture competition you won a year or two later, because I created http://www.doerhub.com/at/uchicago to bridge the gap Michael is talking about in this podcast, and I was serving the startups that ended up competing (so I wasn't allowed to compete). The year I graduated, both winners of NVC and SNVC were users of the site and had found people or received help for their projects due to DoerHub.

Needless to say, I have a lot to say on this topic, and would love to talk to people who want to connect university brains in different disciplines in productive ways, including YC if they are interested. DoerHub is still running, but I just graduated YC Startup School with https://DreamList.com , which feeds off of similar tech, but applies and improves the algorithms by serving much larger and more lucrative problems.