On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:27:45AM -0700, Karsten Wade wrote:
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:21:33PM -0400, Mel Chua wrote:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GSoC_2010_plan#Workflow_plan mentions a coding test that students have to pass - where do we find out more about the test, how to administer it, how it's designed, etc? (I can understand the test itself being non-public so students will take it on even footing.)
I've been searching but unable to find stuff, so if it's simply that I'm missing something, just let me know. ;)
The answer is simply that it doesn't yet exist.
It is not a Google requirement and many organizations don't use one. It has been recommended, however, by many others.
We have a few choices:
- Cook one up ourselves.
- Borrow a FLOSS or public domain test but not announce what it is.
That's all I can think of. I can assist on the second item but not the first.
In the cook one up ourself vein, I think that projects that can do it are better off cooking up different tests for different applicants.
For instance, I might have one person apply to my project with the idea of "create a web front end for the application". Another one might submit a proposal to "Rewrite the core in C to reduce memory consumption". I'd probably want the first person to demonstrate that they can start a TurboGear2 project and make it do something (store a message in a db and give it back on another page). The second person I'd want them to show they could use the python-C-API and perhaps some indication that they understood how to optimize code.
-Toshio