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Open source projects in programming courses

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Michela Pedroni,

Till Bay,

Manuel Oriol,

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 39, Issue 1

Pages 454 - 458

https://doi.org/10.1145/1227504.1227465

Published: 07 March 2007 Publication History

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One of the main shortcomings of programming courses is the lack of practice with real-world systs. As a result, students feel unprepared for industry jobs. In parallel, open source software is accepting contributions even from inexperienced programmers and achieves software that competes both in quality and functionality with industrial systs. This article describes: first, a setting in which students were required to contribute to existing open source software; second, the evaluation of this experience using a motivation measuring technique; and third, an analysis of the efficiency and commitment of students over the time. The study shows that students are at first afraid of failing the assignment, but end up having the impression of a greater achievent. It ses also that students are inclined to keep working on the project to which they contributed after the end of the course.

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 39, Issue 1

March 2007

581 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/1227504

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SIGCSE '07: Proceedings of the 38th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
March 2007
634 pages
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