Sometimes I feel sad when I realize the likes of Smoot<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Smoot>, and other topnotch scientists of our time are lecturers. Same applies for other fields too. Once can only envy their students. Anyway, I have a problem with this list. Very good ideas are fronted, we discuss, +1, like, and then nothing happens. The science TV show idea seems to have died. Can we have a formal physical meetup where we discuss this and other ideas and identify teams to bring the ideas to fruition? On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Joseph Wayodi <jwayodi@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Peter Karunyu <pkarunyu@gmail.com> wrote:
@Joseph, by the time a student is ready for internship or good enough to contribute to a software project online, they are already good enough.
But there is that stage from the moment a programmer is born
(figuratively
speaking), to the moment they are good enough to get an internship or contribute to an open source project. It is at this stage where, I theorize, that programmer mortality rate is at its highest.
And it is at this stage that mentorship would have the most efficacy.
I get you. But I think it will be a bit harder to motivate outside mentors (who are not the teachers) to do it at this level. But all the best if you manage to do it. _______________________________________________ skunkworks mailing list skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke ------------ List info, subscribe/unsubscribe http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------
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