DPS909 and OSD600 Winter 2009 Eclipse WTP Weekly Schedule
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Introduction
The course is broken into two parts. First, general open source and and community specific skills and ideas are taught. Students learn and/or review how to work with Java EE, WTP, Eclipse project techniques and practices. Second, students focus on bug fixing within the Eclipse WTP project itself.
Part I – Essential Open Source Development and Java/Eclipse Skills and Concepts
Week 1 (Jan 12) Course introduction
- Course introduction
- Intro to open source
- Intro to the Eclipse WTP project
- Software
- Readings/Resources
- "Cathedral and Bazaar" by Eric Raymond
- "Revolution OS" [film] (see also http://www.revolution-os.com/ or QA 76.9.A25 R68 2003)
- Books
- Database Resources:
- Java EE Tutorial and Samples (.zip)
- TODO
- Create an account on this wiki for yourself
- Create a personal wiki page on this wiki
- Add add a link for yourself to the People page and the Winter 2009 Open Source Students page
- Create a blog (wordpress or blogspot or whatever) and create a feed category or tag called "open source"
- Read the Blog Guidelines for instructions on how to use your blog in the course
- Add your blog feed and info to the Open Source@Seneca Planet List so that it appears in the OpenSource@Seneca Planet
- Blog on your reactions to the readings for this week.
- Begin learning how to use IRC for communication. We'll cover this in detail next week, but it's better to get started early.
- If you are familiar with IRC, after you install ECLIPSE WTP, you will include the ECF (Eclipse Communication Framework) so that your IRC client will be a communication perspective inside Eclipse