Fuck yes. I wrote about my NASA summer internship experience and it seriously rocked. I was a little uneasy at first working for 'the man' but after some very nice people teaching me a shit load of new things my skepticism diminished. Overall it was a fantastic experience.
Myself, along with 2 other people, were selected to work in an Extreme Programming group this summer at the NASA Langley Research Center. We enhanced their current code repository to be more functional. This included making an API to allow for interfacing with CVS (their current source control system) and subversion (hopefully they will upgrade to this soon enough). Furthermore, we had built in automated testing which check all tests as soon as commits were made and continous integration, which checkout the entire repository and built it on seperate machines (also each time a commit was recieved). We build a webpage using Ruby on Rails, which displayed all the feedback from the integration and building. Not bad for 3 summer students and 2 months. All our code will be available on http://www.rubyforge.org/ shortly. A VERY noteworthy internship! (Also had 2 of the best mentors EVER!)
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Fuck yes. I wrote about my NASA summer internship experience and it seriously rocked. I was a little uneasy at first working for 'the man' but after some very nice people teaching me a shit load of new things my skepticism diminished. Overall it was a fantastic experience.
Myself, along with 2 other people, were selected to work in an Extreme Programming group this summer at the NASA Langley Research Center. We enhanced their current code repository to be more functional. This included making an API to allow for interfacing with CVS (their current source control system) and subversion (hopefully they will upgrade to this soon enough). Furthermore, we had built in automated testing which check all tests as soon as commits were made and continous integration, which checkout the entire repository and built it on seperate machines (also each time a commit was recieved). We build a webpage using Ruby on Rails, which displayed all the feedback from the integration and building. Not bad for 3 summer students and 2 months. All our code will be available on http://www.rubyforge.org/ shortly. A VERY noteworthy internship! (Also had 2 of the best mentors EVER!)