Modernizing CS Education with Open Source
summary
Program plugs senior and master students into real open source projects on GitHub using git, gives academic credit, and requires mentors to spend two to three hours a week guiding newcomers. It reports adoption at 25 of the top 50 CS universities, uses mentor-written one- or two-page onboarding docs that mentors iterate, runs an in-person cod sprint weekend, grades on pull requests, and shows high post-course retention and faster workplace productivity.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 4:30What about GitHub
- 6:06Where are we
- 10:07Open Source projects
- 13:03Mentorship
- 15:15Value from students
- 17:10Collaboration
- 27:30Open Academy
- 29:12Open Academy Blueprint
- 31:12Facebook Groups
- 33:30Gender Diversity
- 35:20How has the program changed
- 37:05How are the teams selected
- 38:50Future of the project
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