I've often wondered about giving students code from previous students.
Or better yet, give them the code from themselves in first year.

I would also like to give a class different parts of a problem - this group
do the UI, this group do the backend, etc. Makes marking harder probably,
but is more realistic.
Of course there is also internship for learning those things.



On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 2:04 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
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> *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]>
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>
> 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]>
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> 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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