Many of her friends in their third and fourth year in Temple’s computer science department haven’t written a line of code outside of basic Java, she said.
What. You can't just make a claim like that without justification. In 5 minutes of search, I found a "sample course sheet," for a Junior CS major, where the fall semester recommends "CIS 3238 Software Design [1]. One syllabus[2] is available from a professor's website[3], and includes this project description:
The goal of the project phase of this course is for students to gain experience in contributing to an open source project. The nature of the contribution may be to contribute an enhancement or to fix an open problem. Students may work alone or in a team of up-to 3 students. While project work will be concentrated to the last half of the course, you need to select the project early and join the developer’s mailing list.
If you are a computer science major and are not writing code, there should be some explanation. A journalist should try to find answers to those questions.
What. You can't just make a claim like that without justification. In 5 minutes of search, I found a "sample course sheet," for a Junior CS major, where the fall semester recommends "CIS 3238 Software Design [1]. One syllabus[2] is available from a professor's website[3], and includes this project description:
The goal of the project phase of this course is for students to gain experience in contributing to an open source project. The nature of the contribution may be to contribute an enhancement or to fix an open problem. Students may work alone or in a team of up-to 3 students. While project work will be concentrated to the last half of the course, you need to select the project early and join the developer’s mailing list.
If you are a computer science major and are not writing code, there should be some explanation. A journalist should try to find answers to those questions.
[1] http://www.temple.edu/cis/undergraduate/undergradcs/CS_BS.ht...
[2] http://www.cis.temple.edu/~wolfgang/CIS%203238%20Software%20...
[3] http://www.cis.temple.edu/~wolfgang/