Open Source Software Development Fall 2018, Hunter College, Stewart Weiss

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Overview

Course	Open Source Software Development, http://www.compsci.hunter.cuny.edu/~sweiss/course_materials/csci132/csci132_f18.php
Institution	Hunter College, CUNY, New York City
Instructor(s)	Stewart Weiss, email: stewart.weiss@hunter.cuny.edu, http://www.compsci.hunter.cuny.edu/~sweiss
Term	Fall 2018
Course Overview	An elective course for students who want to learn how to contribute to open source software projects
Course Length	15-week term
Student Characteristics	mostly upper juniors and seniors, small size classroom (holds 20)
Prerequisites	A data structures course
Infrastructure	Held in a conference room with each student bringing a laptop

Learning Objectives

• the student will become a contributing member of a software development community and have documented evidence of their contribution; and
• the student will document their efforts on this project by creating a blog that chronicles their work.

Assessment Methods

• contributions (30%) such as pull requests that have been accepted, or those that were not accepted but, deserve to be treated as if they were accepted;
• homework (30%) submitted in response to assignments that I post on the website or distribute in class;
• participation (40%) including attending meetings, completing the weekly blog posts, and oral presentations made to the group

Notes to Instructor

• Tips, suggestions, lessons learned (warnings)...

Moving Forward

• what next steps are desirable or possible for this course

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