I think it depends a lot on the scope of the task.
I happened to workeon source code produced by PhD students, and parts of it
were surprisingly robust.

Personally, while attending school, there weren't a lot of opportunities
(incentive from the professors?) to work on open source projects -- the
rush to follow the syllabus kinda always gets in the way.
But I think students would gain a lot from the experience.

 -Marcos


On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 8:04 PM Patrice Roy via SG20 <sg20_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> The big problem in schools is that (in my experience, at least) we don't
> actually have a body of legacy code to provide, and making students use
> colleagues' sources (something I tried) tends not to give desired results
> due to... let's call it "emergent quality of implementation" (it's far from
> professional code that's evolved over time).
>
> I guess we could make a list of relevant open source projects (with
> reasons why we think they are relevant) or ask partners from the industry
> to provide some interesting sources for students to play with... We'd need
> something stable, however, to avoid students accessing the work of previous
> years' students.
>
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> *De :* SG20 <sg20-bounces_at_[hidden]> de la part de JC van Winkel
> via SG20 <sg20_at_[hidden]>
> *Envoyé :* mardi 9 juin 2020 11:47
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> *Cc :* JC van Winkel <jcvw_at_[hidden]>
> *Objet :* Re: [SG20] Wonderful story from Brian Kernighan about an
> assignment he gave to students.
>
> Glad you liked it.
>
> In general, I like the idea of giving assignments where students need to *
> change* software. That is what happens the most in industry.
>
> JC
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> On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 3:06 PM Yongwei Wu via SG20 <sg20_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
>
> It is totally fantastic. I watched the ending twice, and then the video in
> whole. Both Brian and Ken are brilliant!
>
> On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 at 15:58, JC van Winkel via SG20 <sg20_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
>
> See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTfOnGZUZDk&feature=youtu.be&t=533
> <https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DNTfOnGZUZDk%26feature%3Dyoutu.be%26t%3D533&data=02%7C01%7Cpatrice.roy%40usherbrooke.ca%7C8c14ba10de4b4d37a4d908d80c8c7b60%7C3a5a8744593545f99423b32c3a5de082%7C0%7C0%7C637273144789439049&sdata=2IgC08vuETc8vIhC3%2Fl1dbs3jMNjYabM5NUgXs9ScJE%3D&reserved=0>
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> (it is the last 30 seconds of a video of the origins of the grep command
> in UNIX)
>
> JC
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