@Peter The largest programmer mortality rates I've seen are in learning the basics... Just after learning "Hello world" full of hope and wonder and then they decide to write the next great OS!!! This usually spirals down hill with reality playing its not so welcome part. Major among the things that most developers lack is the mentor-ship that stackoverflow can't offer. Practical demonstrations and physical contact may be just what these budding programmers need. @BwanaLawi I think in as much as we were exited and contributions started coming in, the initiator seems to have left his brilliant TV idea an orphan. I think the admins/dedicated members might have to start taking in these ideas and fan the flame! I submit that skunks should probably flirt with the idea of growing as a community with more than a mailing list(Think tech meet-ups, open source projects and mentor-ship programs). On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Peter Karunyu <pkarunyu@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes we can. The education system pisses me off so much I am willing to attend and be part of a team to help mitigate it effects.
I am currently in touch with the Dean of a computer science department in one of the local private Universities, and he is in the process of working out some logistics. Quite a nice and progressive dude I must say :-)
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Bwana Lawi <mail2lawi@gmail.com> wrote:
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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