5 Aug
2009
5 Aug
'09
11 a.m.
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 12:33:27 jaromil wrote:
still, myself being a person working in education, i
think the problem
is more structural: i'd rather question why students in a school
should be contributing to a professor's project, rather than starting
one on their own? they could learn how to work in a more horizontal
and creative way, even if the project will be less interesting in the
eyes of the director, who should be there to give suggestions and help
on students projects, not the contrary.
I disagree (from expirience in writing software in a science project) mostly
because half a year (which seems to be the normal timespan a student is
available with internships or thesis) is to short to successfully start and
finish(!) a project. And that doesn't even include supporting further
development over time. These are the things a long-term maintainer (aka
director:) does.
And you actually learn more when joining a project because you have someone
knowing the current code and giving you hints, you learn how to work together,
you learn how to define interfaces, you have someone looking at your errors and
correcting them. And you don't have to start from scratch...
Have fun,
Arnold