On 11 September 2010 03:18, Wilson Abigaba <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Peter C. Ndikuwera <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Can you estimate how many students were at the event? Surely if students > > were involved in OSS development they'd have encountered the GSoC? > > I did submit an application when I was a student (4 years ago) but it > wasn't selected to take part...it could be the case for many of the > students given the fact they haven't been exposed to these kinds of > projects/code etc. > > Another simple example, how many students do *serious* programming > projects/courses at University? For courses, they *supposedly* all do! :-) About projects, I think that the project supervisors have some blame for not challenging the students more. My sister has just completed her project and I gave her more constructive, challenging feedback in 1 day than her supervisor had. > For BIT/Computer Science, MUK, I think > the number is less than 15 per year. I for one haven't seen a final > year project written in C or C++ or any at least any object oriented > programming/scripting language. I agree. I think the emphasis on web programming in PHP is a worry. > To me, this explains how our > programming skills are still wanting. We still need to sharpen our > skills before we can even contribute to such (FOSS) projects and > graduate to be selected for GSoC. > Contributing to FOSS is a *GREAT* way to enhance programming skills. Maybe the students need to be exposed to the *concept* of FOSS contribution, then they'll take the risk and start! P. "Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length" -- Robert Frost
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