Hi, Indeed this is a mental issue that has to be dealt with through our education system. Just like Johnson said "We need to tackle to problem right away from secondary and even primary!" Most students read to pass and that's all. This mentality has to be uprooted for better results.
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 3:15 PM, J.Mwebaze <[email protected]> wrote: > Most of our students do not have the interest to study heard - most of > them are there to get papers! I have seen > students complaining about lecturers who involve them a lot and teach hard > core stuff.. i for one - i was supervising students and they requested to > change supervision, because i asked for a rather simple python > implementation.. So even those good and interested students miss out! > > We need to tackle to problem right away from secondary and every primary! > Students are rather interested in passing than leaning! > > > > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Emmanuel Mulo <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> 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 >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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. >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> 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. >> --------------------------------------- >> >> > > > -- > += Johnson > -------------------------------------- > Mob UG: +070 1 735800 / 0392 948 368 > http://www.astro.rug.nl/~jmwebaze <http://www.astro.rug.nl/%7Ejmwebaze> > skype: mwebazej > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > --------------------------------------- > > > -- "True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all."
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