Professors *Can* Teach Open Source

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Over at opensource.com, Red Hat’s Greg DeKoenigsberg has a post about a new collaboratively-authored textbook on open source software aimed squarely at undergrad courses. (I blogged about the initial announcement a couple of weeks ago.) As Máirín Duffy points out in the first comment, it’s very code-centric, but in my experience, that’s the right approach: students won’t be ready for discussion of design until they’re proficient in coding1. I’m looking forward to borrowing lots from the book for Software Carpentry…

  1. This is, by the way, why I believe that attempts to teach “computational thinking” without first teaching programming are doomed to fail, but that’s a rant for another time. ↩