I have also seen some projects where the maintainers do not suffer fools lightly. Pick the wrong project and you would be in for a bad time. I for one wish my

I have also seen some projects where the maintainers do not suffer fools lightly. Pick the wrong project and you would be in for a bad time. I for one wish my university had a few extra classes that were 'practical'. I eventually picked up those skills because I had to. I am not talking 60+ hours of it. Like 5-10 would have been more than plenty. Those skills would have been directly applicable to everything I did while I was there as well. Something simple like 'what is source control', 'practical examples of code organization and refactoring' would have saved me more than a few times in college. But yeah picking an opensource project to dump these skills classes onto will end up as a bad time. Unless the prof/ta is in the mix and helping that project. From my exp from some profs, that is not going to happen.