Dear all, I was giving a look to JabRef (a reference management tool) and I found this page:
https://devdocs.jabref.org/teaching where they propose development of their software as "practical course" to university students, I think in computer-science departments. It is an idea I was considering some years ago for TeXmacs, namely give as part of my teaching duties at the university a "practicum" on open source software development using TeXmacs as platform. It would have the advantage to cover serveral programming languages (scheme, C/C++, python) and programming strategies (functional, object oriented) and moreover several domain problem (typesetting, conversion, user interaction, networking, etc...). It seems that people over there are already doing this kind of stuff succesfully. In particular they offer this as a "service" to university teaching staff, indeed they say: """ Why university instructors should cooperate with us? • No need to think about software engineering excersies any more: JabRef has them. • No need to provision infra structure • High-quality student educuation due to real-world tooling and real-world code base • Sustainability of student works: No more thrown-away solved excercises: They now are incorparted in a real-world product • Visibility of your research groups """ Best Max _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list Texmacs-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev
