Hi,
I would like us to slowly and experimentally (!) begin a systematic effort to contact computer science educators who might be interested in assigning MediaWiki-related work to their students. Professors I've talked to so far were cautiously interested, and my intuition is that a global outreach effort could lead to some real outside participation.
So, my question is, are any of you aware of lists of professors and teachers in the field of computer science, particularly software? It can be country-specific or limited in other ways, but any list as a starting point would be very useful. Even a proprietary database might be interesting.
All best,
Erik
Erik Moeller wrote:
So, my question is, are any of you aware of lists of professors and teachers in the field of computer science, particularly software?
When you say "professor", I assume that you're referring to university professors. At university level, computer science courses tend to contain very little about programming, and in particular, the only programming exercises students get will be at a very basic level. For example, I had to write a program to solve Towers of Hanoi...
I am somewhat of a "freelance" teacher "in the field of computer science" for the University of Cambridge. I cannot imagine any kind of exercise consisting of work on MediaWiki that would be beneficial to "my" students. At one point, I attempted to encourage students to implement a particular algorithm they were supposed to learn (I think it was Dijkstra's algorithm), but none of them did and they still passed the exams. Even if they did implement such an algorithm, it is highly questionable that the result would be useful for MediaWiki.
Timwi
On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 11:22:56AM +0100, Timwi wrote:
Erik Moeller wrote:
So, my question is, are any of you aware of lists of professors and teachers in the field of computer science, particularly software?
When you say "professor", I assume that you're referring to university professors. At university level, computer science courses tend to contain very little about programming, and in particular, the only programming exercises students get will be at a very basic level. For example, I had to write a program to solve Towers of Hanoi...
It depends where. "Programowanie" at Computer Science department of Wrocław University requires all students to write a toy compiler for something Pascal-ish.
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