Sign me up for Anders' curriculum. Year 4 reminded me a bit of <a href="
http://www.projectaardvark.com/">Project Aardvark</a> at <a href="http://www.fogcreek.com/">FogCreek</a> this summer. Instead of hiring interns to do grunt work, they took college students and built a neat little app called <a href="http://www.copilot.com">Copilot</a> that lets one Windows user help another without having to setup a VNC session. Interns were responsible for the entire product. How many times have you tried to help a user and asked them to describe what they saw on their screen? How wonderful that CS students were given a real world challenge and that they delivered the product. I'm sure they had great support at Fog Creek, but their accomplishment is still impressive.
ted bongiovanni - 2005-09-09 14:34:54
Sign me up for Anders' curriculum. Year 4 reminded me a bit of <a href=" http://www.projectaardvark.com/">Project Aardvark</a> at <a href="http://www.fogcreek.com/">FogCreek</a> this summer. Instead of hiring interns to do grunt work, they took college students and built a neat little app called <a href="http://www.copilot.com">Copilot</a> that lets one Windows user help another without having to setup a VNC session. Interns were responsible for the entire product. How many times have you tried to help a user and asked them to describe what they saw on their screen? How wonderful that CS students were given a real world challenge and that they delivered the product. I'm sure they had great support at Fog Creek, but their accomplishment is still impressive.