Archive for the ‘Student Projects’ Category
Sunday, February 21st, 2010
It's a sunny Sunday morning in Atlanta, and I'm on my way home. I came down Thursday to:
Raise money for Software Carpentry.
Get people excited about Basie.
Get people excited about UCOSP.
Talk with Georgia Tech's Mark Guzdial about computer science education.
#4 actually happened first. Mark picked me up Friday morning; we chatted ...
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
We are pleased to announce the release of Version 0.6 of Basie, a lightweight software project portal built on Django and jQuery. Basie is designed to replace Trac and DrProject; its main features are:
Multiple projects per forge
Role-based access control
Pluggable user account management
Per-project wiki with standard WikiCreole syntax
Subversion repository browser
Per-project mailing ...
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Monday, February 8th, 2010
Dear Lazyweb,
Is there a tool somewhere that will automatically generate and validate all possible output variations for a Django HTML template page? We're using Django in Basie, and have been running into problems when one branch of a conditional closes a tag, but the other doesn't:
<li>opening text
{% if something %}
blah ...
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Google Summer of Code 2010 is on for 2010! They will begin accepting applications from would-be mentoring organizations on March 8th, with applications closing on March 12th. Students can apply between March 29th and April 9th.
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Monday, February 1st, 2010
This term's UCOSP projects all seem to be going well so far: most teams are writing and committing code, and several teams have adopted code review as a standard practice. I'm really hoping that at least a few UCOSP students will make a bid for places in the VeloCity entrepreneur ...
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
45 students from 14 universities, 8 projects --- it's been quite a term for the cross-country capstone projects. There were some bumps in the road, but overall, we think it went well. If you'd like to see what the students accomplished, check out their screencasts; if you'd like to join ...
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Sunday, August 30th, 2009
MarkUs, a Rails-based tool for marking student programming assignments, just released Version 0.5. MarkUs aims to provide the convenience and flexibility of pen-and-paper marking over the web; it will be deployed this fall at the University of Toronto, and is one of the eight cross-country open source projects we'll be ...
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
We are very pleased to announce the release of Version 0.5 of Basie, a lightweight software project forge built on Django that borrows many ideas from Trac and DrProject. As this screencast shows, its features include:
Multiple projects per forge
Role-based access control and pluggable user account management
Subversion repository browser
Cross-component search
Per-project wiki ...
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
One by one and two by two our summer students are wrapping up:
Eben Hailemariam has moved the Eclipse feature diagram plugin to Google Code, and has posted a screencast showing the latest progress.
Maria Yancheva's MediaWiki search plugin has a screencast too.
Brent Mombourquette's Breadcrumbs plugin for Firefox is up on Google ...
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Thursday, August 6th, 2009
I've mentioned a couple of times that we're running some capstone projects this fall with students from several universities across Canada. The list of projects has grown, and we now have 21 students signed up, with more in the pipeline, so I've created a separate blog to keep track of ...
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