* inspire students to explore unfamiliar waters, without fear of failure,
* create an intensive, shared experience, accessible to all students, and
* build community among students.
* think more methodically,
* program procedurally,
* represent and process information,
* communicate succinctly and precisely,
* solve problems efficiently,
* recognize patterns among problems,
* decompose problems into parts and compose solutions thereto,
* operate at multiple levels of abstraction,
* separate design from implementation details,
* infer from first principles how systems work,
* assess the correctness, design, and style of code,
* teach themselves new languages,
* identify threats to privacy and security,
* read documentation, drawing conclusions from specifications,
* test solutions to problems, find faults, and identify corner cases,
* describe symptoms of problems precisely and ask questions clearly, and
* identify and quantify tradeoffs among resources, particularly time and space.
