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