On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:15:08PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
>
> As a fallback for students who don't want to join an existing project,
> the current scheme may be chosen. The "objectives", "goals", and
> "design" stages, however, will be waved for those students who choose to
> join an existing project.
>
I believe that by saying that these targets should be waved when
joining an existing project you are shooting yourself in the leg. This
is so because it sounds to me as if you are saying that these targets
are not applicable for someone who just joins an existing project for
a short term. Yet these targets should be very important to the
students career and there fore will not be waved by the university. In
fact, some people might claim that they are more important then the
actual code because a good and detailed design pretty much dictates the
actual code. Saying it otherwise, a good and detailed design can be
implemented in a technical manner and one doesn't have to take an
undergraduate (or do we talk about a graduate?) course for implementing
one.
As an aside, and in order to avoid making people feel that they are
forced into Linux, what about porting an open source project to MS env?
I believe that even with cygwin or a similar Unix libraries there would
be plenty to do.
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Shaul Karl, [EMAIL PROTECTED] e t
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