The problem could be, there are hardly any lecturers or project supervisors doing some serious(hard core) programming or understand programming from first principles (even in PHP :-) ) to challenge the students to write such C or C++ programs. I stand to be corrected :-)
Most of them stop at downloading already done examples from websites of universities in UK/US to set as course works and exams. And yes, from "Teach yourself C in 21 days". P. On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Peter C. Ndikuwera <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > > >
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