I believe like many that the problem lies with the instruction. I can
give you a concrete example. For an entire semester at uni, the longest
assignment we got for the so called Programming methodology course
involved writing 20 lines of C code and mostly with scanf's and printf's
for that matter. I am sure the situation is much improved now but if
that was the quality of the instruction, you couldn't expect such an
instructor to challenge his/her students to contribute to OSS projects.
On 11/09/2010 10:11, Tim Schofield wrote:
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
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