Promoting Open Source in Schools

[Sacha Chua]

James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> writes:

>> I'm a big fan of open source in computing education, and I think
>> students definitely need to get exposed to bigger projects than the
>> exercises we have them do in class.
> Maybe we can get them dumpster diving for code, just like Bill Gates
> did. (Does?  <g>)

Seriously speaking, that's one of the best ways to learn more about
programming. =) Well, maybe not sifting through garbage bins to find
program listings, but checking out other people's source code, both
horrifically bad bubblegum-and-string implementations and clean and
elegant code.

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