I agree here. I am currently mentoring some Makarere students on an open source project, and they do lack some very basic skills.
Tim On 11 September 2010 01:18, 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 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. 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. > > Regards, > Wilson > _______________________________________________ > 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. > --------------------------------------- > > -- WebERP Africa Ltd +447710427049 +256752963327 +255784602561 www.weberpafrica.com _______________________________________________ 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. ---------------------------------------
