I agree that group 2 is a primary target in some ways. But group 1 is important too. Getting students exposed for FOSS early seems to help catch their attention - and may increase chances of more involvement later. Also, the assignments that might be targeted at the group 1 students may be more approachable for a faculty member looking for an easy way to get started with FOSS in the classroom.
Greg Hislop -----Original Message----- From: tos-boun...@teachingopensource.org [mailto:tos-boun...@teachingopensource.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Hamblin Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 4:21 PM To: TOS List Subject: [TOS] Target Audience? I'm starting to work(again) on generating review questions for the book chapters. And as I've gone over the book, I've noticed that it feels a little as though it is trying to target two different groups of student at the same time. Group 1: are new to computer science, maybe freshmen in a CS 101 type class, the "imagine if" type exercises and the explanation of what source code is seem to be targeting this group, along with the basic explanation of tools(the getting the code and building the code chapters) Group 2: More advanced, second year on up, CS students in a course specifically about doing real development. The Optional exercise "change the binary code" seems to be targeted at this group. as do the go fix a bug exercises, and the end goals If I'm reading the top level objective correctly as, "Take a student and help them become a open source contributor." Then it seems best to target the reviews at Group 2 type students, rather than Group 1. Spending a lot of time on basics that Group 1 students haven't been exposed to seems as though it is detracting from the main point. -- -Andrew Hamblin "That which does not kill me has made a grave tactical error" _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
