Hello Sylvain, and thank you for this feedback.
> As we exchanged privately, last semester students IMHO got more and > more late. > They didn't send the basic explanation about FusionForge's main > directories, and I didn't get any code submission. We (the teachers) are partly responsible for this to happen. As the course is entitled "Comprehension of programs" we wanted to separate the two activities -- the commprehension part and the developpement. Thus, the first part of the class (the first couple of weeks) had to be dedicated to the description of the code and it's architecture and the other half to debugging the assigned project. It was difficult to orchestrate all that and I can imagine that there were groups that didn't send their attributions. We will most probably change things this year. We will discuss on this subject with Françoise tomorrow. > I personaly do not have time this semester to mentor a group of > students, but maybe others do. OK. Thank you for your help during last semester. I hope there will be others that would volunteer mentoring a group of students this semester. Best regards, -- Ivaylo > Le 2014-09-05 17:21, Ivaylo Ganchev a écrit : > >Hello all, > > > >with a small delay though, I wanted to thank Sylvain and those of you who > >helped our students during last semester experience with students > >participation > >to FF. > > > >My name is Ivaylo Ganchev and I was helping the main professor (Françoise > >Balmas, CC-ed in this mail) with the class. > > > >It was a first time that we worked with FF and certainly it was one of the > >factors which explain the fact that the groups working on FF code put more > >time > >to get into the code. IIRC the final submissions were not accepted. > > > >We are interested in renewing the experience this year. I hope that there > >will > >be some of you who will agree in guiding our students through FF code. > > > >The class is called Code comprehension and though prpoducing code is not our > >primary goal, we push students to produce and submit code to projects. This > >is > >kind of assurance that the code was well understood. Also producing a code is > >really gratifying for students and shows them that participating in a > >real-world FOSS project is not something they should try after 10 year > >professional experience. Finaly putting in their resumes that they > >participated > >in a FOSS project gives them some advantages when they start to look for a > >job. > > > >This will be the forth edition of the class and we are still experimenting > >with > >the contents and the methodology. Last year we insisted that students should > >try to work on the theoritical part during most part of the semester and do > >the > >code at the end. This didn't give very good results, so we will maybe change > >the approach this year. > > > >I give all these details so that it is more easy to understand how the class > >works for those of you who would like to help us. I would be glad to give you > >more information if some of you need to. _______________________________________________ Fusionforge-general mailing list Fusionforge-general@lists.fusionforge.org http://lists.fusionforge.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fusionforge-general
