Flourish 2008 - Jon 'maddog' Hall - The Use of Free and Open Source in Education
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From the early days of computers the best instructors in computer science believed that the best way of teaching students was to show them how others wrote good code. "A picture is worth a thousand words" is not only applicable to photography and...
From the early days of computers the best instructors in computer science believed that the best way of teaching students was to show them how others wrote good code. "A picture is worth a thousand words" is not only applicable to photography and art. This talk illustrated concrete reasons why and how FOSS should and can be used to propel students to learn faster and easier in the area of complex systems, and why the use of closed, proprietary code is dead and dying.
This talk took place at Flourish 2008.
