An open source software culture in the undergraduate computer science curriculum Export

@article{citeulike:2446653, abstract = {Open source software has made inroads into mainstream computing where it was once the territory of software altruists, and the open source culture of technological collegiality and accountability may benefit education as well as industry. This paper describes the Recourse project, which seeks to transform the computer science undergraduate curriculum through teaching methods based on open source principles, values, ethics, and tools. Recourse differs from similar projects by bringing the open source culture into the curriculum comprehensively, systematically, and institutionally. The current state of the project is described, and initial results from a pilot exercise are presented. (1)}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {John David and Dickson, Caskey L. and August, Stephanie E. and Dorin, Philip M. and Toal, Ray}, citeulike-article-id = {2446653}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1272848.1272888}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1272848.1272888}, doi = {10.1145/1272848.1272888}, issn = {0097-8418}, journal = {SIGCSE Bull.}, keywords = {cse, free-software, open-source}, month = {June}, number = {2}, pages = {70--74}, posted-at = {2009-07-14 01:20:41}, priority = {3}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {An open source software culture in the undergraduate computer science curriculum}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1272848.1272888}, volume = {39}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2446653 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2446653 N2 - Open source software has made inroads into mainstream computing where it was once the territory of software altruists, and the open source culture of technological collegiality and accountability may benefit education as well as industry. This paper describes the Recourse project, which seeks to transform the computer science undergraduate curriculum through teaching methods based on open source principles, values, ethics, and tools. Recourse differs from similar projects by bringing the open source culture into the curriculum comprehensively, systematically, and institutionally. The current state of the project is described, and initial results from a pilot exercise are presented. (1) IS - 2 JF - SIGCSE Bull. SN - 0097-8418 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 74 TI - An open source software culture in the undergraduate computer science curriculum PB - ACM VL - 39 SP - 70 KW - cse KW - free-software KW - open-source AU - John David AU - Dickson, Caskey AU - August, Stephanie AU - Dorin, Philip AU - Toal, Ray PY - 2007/06// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1272848.1272888 ER -