User:Xtang

Xueqing (Clare) Tang

Clare Tang is a Full Professor in Computer Science at Governors State University (GSU). The University is on south side of Chicago with diverse student body, which includes large number of non-traditional students transferred from community colleges. The computer science department offers BS and MS in computer science and BS in Information Technology.

Dr. Tang teaches Java Programming, Software Engineering, Data Structure, Algorithms, and Formal Languages and Automata. Dr. Tang participates research projects at Argonne National Lab using supercomputers for computer modeling and simulation on environmental studies. Dr. Tang is passionate on inclusiveness of computer science. She was a Principal Investigator for two NSF funded projects on broadening participation in computing.

Prior to coming to GSU, Dr. Tang spent twelve years working at IBM.

Exercises:

FOSS development life cycle:

Sugarlabs:

  Use the software --- tried sugarizer online
  Report bug --- go to its github site, choose related component, report issue.
  Check out repository --- Last commit 10/10/2016

Sahana:

  Use the software --- browse the web page, very nice
  Report bug --- go to its github site. At the moment there are 22 issues. Study them as they are good examples to report issue.
  Check out repository --- Last commit 3/21/2017

Field Trip:

Part 1 - Github:

Search "education" on GitHub. 12,270 repositories are shown. The first project is "free programming books"

               Graphs, then commits shows two charts: 
                                first chart is the weekly total commits for the years;
                                second chart is the total commits each day of the current week.

Search "Humanitarian", 288 repositories are shown. HTBox/crisischeckin - last commit August 7, 2016 Search "disaster management", 143 repositories are shown.

Part 2 - OpenHub

Search "education", 346 pages are returned, assuming 10 projects per page, 3460 total projects Code locations are all on Git, not github. 4 similar projects are listed OpenHub provides information on line of code, programming languages, activity, community Search "Humanitarian" - 4 pages; 40 projects Search "Disaster management" - 6 pages; 60 projects Why do so many projects do not have activity information available? I need to find out. Information from "Organizations" tab - lists most active, latest commit volume, newest org, stat by sector OpenMRS Core App Module - Last commit 2/2017, (says 22 days before) It seems like OpenHub analyzes it periodically not real time. (says analyzed 22 days ago) GitHub vs OpenHub: GitHub is more popular, this is the first time I heard OpenHub