It is quite interesting to read about JazzHub, a logical extension of IBM initiative in collaborative software development, taking it to academic community. This will drastically change academic projects in software engineering, taking academia closer to industry.
Just as highlighted in the writeup, vast majority of projects done by students as done as individual effort than a teamwork. Of course, there are cases which are done by a very small group as well.
This is a far cry from software development projects are done in industry. That is, when students join a company as programmers, they are part of a larger team.
This introduces new dimension to work that they are not exposed to. Now, they are required to collaborate with other team members. They gradually realize, as they evolve into a professional, that individual excellence is good but useful only when it is in collaboration with other team members.
Larger team would also mean larger scope of work, larger complexity and larger overhead. Well, it is technically viable now with IBM's JazzHub. JazzHub provides software development platform hosted in cloud, free for academic research and classroom projects.
This platform takes away overhead of server and project administration, letting professors to focus more on their students working together, guiding them through the project
Sunday 24 July 2011
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"Computer science tops list of best major for jobs"
A recent news in SD Times indicate that Computer Science as a major offer more job potential and hence most preferred from that perspective. Click here to read more
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