Introducing Students To the World of Open Source 182
paulproteus writes "Most computer science students never see a bug tracker, and very few learn about version control. Classes often don't teach the skills needed for participation. So I organized a weekend workshop at the University of Pennsylvania. Total newbies enthusiastically spent the day on IRC, learned git, built a project from source, and read bugs in real projects. I learned that there's no shortage of students that want to get involved."
In my experiance... (Score:4, Funny)
Most computer science students don't know how to write code. So it doesn't matter at all.
Re:Wow... (Score:2, Funny)
Congratulations! You win the internet! No one has ever won the internet at such a young age!
Re:In my experiance... (Score:1, Funny)
Well, he did introduce them to weekends spent on IRC. Something they will most likely be doing for the rest of their lonely, lonely lives.
Re:Wow... (Score:2, Funny)
I thought that was suppose to Linux Torvalds?