Coding test

[Toshio Kuratomi]

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:
> 
> 1. Cook one up ourselves.
> 2. 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
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