Ok, being a student at RIT the typical Surfing session lasts from about September 3rd, till May 24th. Give or take a few days for breaks and toilet visits. Well, i don't speak for everyone with that statistic... just a small fraction. However i never saw the internet as a form of 'long' entertainment. My typical sessions involve hopping on and checking email... looking at the funny links my friends send around, check in on IRC and then just idle away as i go to play countless hours of Virtua Tennis. The internet was never entertaining, i don't know who found it to be. I guess you could kill 83 minutes looking at pornography but even after a few days of that.. you've seen it all. Not to mention pop-up ads promote suicide. The day the internet reigns above TV or movies will startle me, and i will move to mars, i hope we can by then. -ricci
Yes i believe OSS can be used to help educate in the mere areas of programming alone. Most OSS projects already have a design and simply need implementation (the dirty) work. My second year at RIT had me thrown into a class known as SE-361, software engineering. 20% of the class was code, if that. We focused primarly on the actual life line of a piece of software that we create from the ground up. Starting with analysis design to actual design to implementation to the presentation of the product ( with testing being weaved in an out of every step of the way ). We would weigh risks, analyze and re-analyze every decision we made. To me this class was the first step in making me valuable to the working world. No longer looked at as 'someone who knows code' but as someone who has a better idea of how much time each step of the software process takes (thus helping a company develop a budget and time frame for when a product will be ready for release) These are the things that will be more valuable to you in the long run, the coding skills just come along for the fun. I have yet to really get my hands dirty in any OSS devlopment, maybe i should start... but from these threads it seems more roughneck coding than it does organized maturing of a software system.
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Ok, being a student at RIT the typical Surfing session lasts from about September 3rd, till May 24th. Give or take a few days for breaks and toilet visits. Well, i don't speak for everyone with that statistic... just a small fraction. However i never saw the internet as a form of 'long' entertainment. My typical sessions involve hopping on and checking email... looking at the funny links my friends send around, check in on IRC and then just idle away as i go to play countless hours of Virtua Tennis.
The internet was never entertaining, i don't know who found it to be. I guess you could kill 83 minutes looking at pornography but even after a few days of that.. you've seen it all. Not to mention pop-up ads promote suicide.
The day the internet reigns above TV or movies will startle me, and i will move to mars, i hope we can by then.
-ricci
Yes i believe OSS can be used to help educate in the mere areas of programming alone. Most OSS projects already have a design and simply need implementation (the dirty) work. My second year at RIT had me thrown into a class known as SE-361, software engineering. 20% of the class was code, if that. We focused primarly on the actual life line of a piece of software that we create from the ground up. Starting with analysis design to actual design to implementation to the presentation of the product ( with testing being weaved in an out of every step of the way ). We would weigh risks, analyze and re-analyze every decision we made. To me this class was the first step in making me valuable to the working world. No longer looked at as 'someone who knows code' but as someone who has a better idea of how much time each step of the software process takes (thus helping a company develop a budget and time frame for when a product will be ready for release) These are the things that will be more valuable to you in the long run, the coding skills just come along for the fun. I have yet to really get my hands dirty in any OSS devlopment, maybe i should start... but from these threads it seems more roughneck coding than it does organized maturing of a software system.
-jricci.
This is what happens when your a sore loser..