For Accepted Applicants

If you have been accepted to the course, we will send you an email from the stdio {dot} ghana {at} gmail {dot} com address.

For the course, you should pre-establish a GitHub account and email us the username.

The course will be held in the University of Ghana Computing Systems Center, and lodging provided in Francis Sey Hall. Directions from Francis Sey to the UGCS are available here, though there are some obvious detours to take from the main roads to speed up the walk. The class starts promptly at 9 AM and runs until 5 PM in the evening.

During the course, we will use the lab computers exclusively during the day (no personal computers are necessary, or should be brought to the lab). These will have Ubuntu 14.04 with PyCharm and SmartGitHg installed.

You may of course work on your personal machines outside the classroom. If you wish to familiarize yourself in advance with those pieces of software, they are free and cross-platform, so you should be able to install them most anywhere. We will not be doing any in-class troubleshooting of personal machines, but the first evening’s social event will be some troubleshooting of personal setup with the instructors.

Social Event Info

• For the games night, please feel free to bring any games suitable for playing on a table top. The instructors will be bringing a few games you may or may not have played before:
  • Bananagrams (specifically the double version)
  • Innovation (including Echoes and Figures Expansions)
  • Set
  • Settlers of Catan
  • Pandemic

Weekend Trip Details

We toured Cape Coast Castle, and then meet with the Operations Officer and students for a tour of the AIMS Ghana facility.

For STDIO Ghana students interested in AIMS, the application site is here, though applications for the 2014-2015 year are already closed. Keep it in mind for 2015-2016!