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| Title: | The challenges of creating open source education software: the Gild experience |
| Authors: | German, Daniel M.
Rigby, Peter
Cubranic, Davor
Storey, Margaret-Anne
Thomson, Suzanne |
| Keywords: | programming environment, open source, learning environment, novice programmers, community, eclipse |
| Description: | This paper discusses Gild: An open source, Eclipse-based
IDE for teaching and learning programming. Gild was designed to simplify
and add pedagogical support to the Eclipse IDE to make it more
appropriate for novice programmers and their instructors. Its development
has greatly benefited from the ability to study, reuse, and modify
existing Eclipse code. The core members of the Gild team are primarily
researchers, making the maintenance of a growing code base difficult.
It is challenging to create a community of developers because unlike
most open source projects the developers (researchers) of Gild are not
the main users (novice programmers) of Gild. To overcome this problem,
we discuss techniques for making Gild more attractive to skilled
developers (professors and graduate students). These techniques include
improving instructor support in Gild and developing a grading
perspective. We hope that these additions will attract able contributors
and make Gild a self-sustain... |
| Licence: | Creative Commons, non-commercial, attributive |
| Issue Date: | Jul-2005 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2038/1539 |
| bibliographicCitation: | First International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2005), Genova, 11-15 July 2005 |
| Appears in Collections: | Information on OS Products
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