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Dale Skrien

Dale Skrien is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Colby College. Colby College is a liberal arts college in Waterville, ME, with approximately 1800 students.

Dr. Skrien has been teaching computer science at Colby for approximately 30 years. His research interests have included algorithmic graph theory, computer music, and computer science educational software. He has authored or co-authored three computer science or mathematics textbooks.

Dr. Skrien enjoys snowshoeing in the Maine woods in the winter and relaxing on the lakeshore in the summer.

Possible Course Activities using OpenMRS

My son, when he was a summer intern during his college years, was initially given a job as tester. It seemed like a very appropriate way to productively find out what the software does. I think it might be a good way for my students to begin working on OpenMRS. Maybe load testing and usability testing could be the first steps, followed by unit testing. At this point, the students will be more familiar with the whole project from a user's perspective as well as a developer's perspective and so can begin looking at small sections of code to fix bugs, refactor it to clean up working code, or to look at a larger section to understand the design of it.