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GNOME Launches Coding Education Challenge With $500k In Funding
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Well, I hope this could at least lead to fixing some bugs in GNOME Shell, GNOME Software and other important parts of the GNOME desktop, where many bugs stay unfixed because "there is not enough money and developers to work on them".
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Maybe a GTK application with a OpenGL context that renders a turtle and then program it in JavaScript and/or Python, and a graphical drag-and-drop UI where you drag code blocks such as if, while, for, and foreach loops and arrange them in order.
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I don't think they'd like my proposals of "Drop CSD" and "GTK4 should be a GTK3 compat layer to QT5".
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Originally posted by Spooktra View PostSomeone needs to check their math, 20 winners of $6500 = $130000; 5 winners of $25000 = $125000; the final winner gets $100000 and the runner up gets $25000.
$130,000+$125,000+$100,000+$25,000 = $380,000, where's the extra $120,000?
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Originally posted by uid313 View PostI've had co-workers come to me saying code gets erased when they typed, I went over to their computer and pressed the "Insert" button on the keyboard. These people are developers.
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Originally posted by uid313 View PostI don't think coding education is needed, those who want to learn can easily learn by themselves.
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Someone needs to check their math, 20 winners of $6500 = $130000; 5 winners of $25000 = $125000; the final winner gets $100000 and the runner up gets $25000.
$130,000+$125,000+$100,000+$25,000 = $380,000, where's the extra $120,000?
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Let's hope this outreach isn't geographically limited to the U.S like their most well known outreach effort. When you limit a supposed outreach effort to a single country it's not really much of an outreach effort no matter how hard you try to set it up. Also doesn't exactly help alleviate the common image of Americans thinking of themselves as the center of the universe and the rest of the world as something that should stay out if it's way and bombed into a parking lot if it doesn't.
After all Google's GSoC is also an excellent outreach effort and emulating it, even if tangentially, is always a good idea.
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