Instructor Experiences

Course Name	Level	HFOSS Activity	HFOSS Project	Instructor	Academic Institution	Observations	Other Comments
Data Structures	Freshman to Seniors	Students read the source code of open source projects an examples of the "real life" use of the data structures and Java language features that they are learning about. At the beginning of the semester it is very much "hand holding", i.e. look at the line such and such in file such and such and tell me what is there. By the end of the semester they are browsing GitHub repositories on their own searching for use examples of given data structures. The students do not interact with the community and they do not contribute.	OpenMRS and Mifos	Joanna Klukowska	New York University	This works great to satisfy the students' requests for connecting the material to the real life situations. It also illustrates the fact that other people also document the code and write input validations, etc. I think that this has been of great educational benefit to my students, even though they sometimes do not even realize that.	It takes more than a few months to a point of using (H)FOSS with students, so be patient.