A gathering of kernel developers

Posted Sep 26, 2013 1:32 UTC (Thu) by dashesy (guest, #74652)
Parent article: A gathering of kernel developers

That "get a patch into the kernel" should be fun, I wish more professors were as enlightened.
There is value in many of those term projects if directed to the right direction, for example asking engineering students to write code in Python instead of MATLAB would have produced huge amount of valuable libraries, but instead MATLAB code is only good to pass the class and is otherwise useless.
Asking students to collaborate on a github project would also benefit them in filling out a valuable resume. I would rather look at commit logs rather than a 10 page resume and white boarding.

A gathering of kernel developers

Posted Oct 1, 2013 15:18 UTC (Tue) by njwhite (guest, #51848) [Link]

In related efforts, Cory Doctorow some time ago mentioned assigning students to improve and expand a stub Wikipedia article about some subject they were studying (for something English-related IIRC), with assessment being done based on their contributions to the page. Always struck me as a great idea; it encourages researching further, thinking about the best ways to (re)organise descriptions of complex ideas, and the importance of good collaboration. Not to mention that I'm sure the Wikipedia article in question was much better once they were finished.