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I think it is very reasonable idea, but time's gonna show how it'll affect maintainers when majority of schools start doing it >The most common problems faced

• timkam 5y ago
  I think if the course instructors are more or less experienced contributors and put a focus on meta-aspects such as respectful communication (valuing maintainer time), this could work. Of course, this also means that at the moment, many schools do not have teachers with relevant expertise, I suppose...
• reedf1 5y ago
  The ability to build any project is a strange thing you learn after a few years as a software engineer. As a jnr. dev I was completely awed at my co-workers ability to understand build/compiler errors. Well you basically get that for free banging your head against a wall long enough, and being paid for it!
• skocznymroczny 5y ago
  Many open source projects are hard to build, especially C/C++ ones because these languages don't have a standarized package manager and a proper package ecosystem. C/C++ projects often use Makefiles which rely on bash commands. If you're on Windows, good luck. Sometimes you get lucky and there's a CMake file which can create a Visual Studio solution for you. With languages like Rust, D or any webdev project it's much easier, because you can go "cargo build" and it will autodownload dependencies and build everything, no matter the OS.