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=== Quotes ===
* "My pledge is to the process; as long as I have the resources at my disposal, I will seek to raise the bar for future generations of students of all ages." (George Lucas) [http://www.thescreeningroom.ca/2012/11/george-lucas-to-give-most-of-the-disney-cash.html]
===My Brief Bio ===I am Peter Liu. I began teaching C, C++ and Java programming at the School of Computer Studies in September 1998. I am a computer scientist by training and I love being an educator.[https://scs.senecac.on.ca/~peter.liu/] My philosophy of education is that teaching and research complement each other. [http://chronicle.com/article/Want-to-Be-a-Good-Researcher-/128753/] My professional interests are computer science education, [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/wiki open source software development], and geocomputing. I enjoy '''mentoring students''' to undertake independent study and applied research projects. I am a member of [http://www.acm.org/ ACM ] (Association of Computing Machinery), [http://www.sigcse.org/ SIGCSE] (Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education), and [http://www.sigsoft.org/ SIGSOFT] (Special Interest Group on Software Engineering). At leisure time, I enjoy doing photography and appreciating paintings. [https://cs.senecac.on.ca/~pliu/pages/Art_links.html] Please visit my website for more details. [https://scs.senecac.on.ca/~peter.liu] ===My Adventure with Open Source Development at Seneca College'''<br>===
For my professional development, I want to find out how to teach and learn open source development. It is a privilege and honor for me to get ''immersed'' in the open source movement at Seneca. From '''January - April 2009''', [[User:JAnastasiade | Jordan Anastasaide]] has graciously allowed me to go alongside with his '''Eclipse Web Tools Platform (Eclipse WTP)''' class such that I may have ''first-hand experience'' on open-source development. I am excited about immersing myself in this culture of ''being open'' in fixing bugs. As suggested by Jordan, I am going to [http://pliu.wordpress.com/ blog] what I have experienced in this community as if I were a reporter on the field. What I have experienced for the last two weeks has already affected how I teach JAC444 and BTP400 this semester. Indeed I am using wikis as a teaching and learning tool for the first time in my teaching career... <br/>
==== The Thrill of Fixing a WTP Bug ====
I enjoyed the experience of fixing a WTP bug. I'm glad to know that I have made a little bit of contribution to the the Eclipse WTP project.
'''Bug #256185''' [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=256185]
*status: a patch created on 3/13/2009; changed to FIXED on 4/27/2009
*ripple effect:
<pre>Comment #29 From Valentin Baciu 2009-05-26 11:37:10 -0400:
*** Bug 277839 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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==== More Surprises ====
Time flies. From '''May to August''', Jordan has again graciously allowed me to take part in his second Eclipse WTP class. As far as I'm concerned, the students in his Winter 2009 class ''have accomplished'' a lot within a course structure, bearing in mind that they started from zero. [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/DPS909_and_OSD600_Winter_2009_Eclipse_WTP_Summary] I'm looking forward to having another ''adventure'' with the Eclipse WTP student team. <br/>
Time flies again. I am now involved with exploring the '''Eclipse Linux Tools''' project. After inviting Andrew Overholt (Red Hat) to speak to the students in my Java classes (JAC444) on '''March 9, 2010''', I have created [[Learning Labs for Eclipse Linux Tools]]. Even though the JAC444 classes will be over by the end of April, interested students can continue with the activities in the Learning Labs. We will see how things are going to unfold...
Beginning with '''January 2011''', I have become an active member on the [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/NexJ_Express NexJ Express project team] at Seneca College. I am looking forward to working along with a student to tackle work on a sub-project called PostgreSQLAdapter. What's going to happen? We will see...*[[My Applied Research Log]]
Beginning with '''September 2012''', I have become involved with the [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Mobile_Medical_Device_Integration Mobile Medical Devices Integration project ], in partnership with NexJ Systems. Again, let's see what's going to happen...
'''Email address:''' peter.liu@senecac.on.ca.
'''Blog:''' [http://pliu.wordpress.com http://pliu.wordpress.com]
'''Interesting Links'''
* Open source can innovate even beyond software (August 01, 2011) [http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/188439/open-source-can-innovate-even-beyond-software?source=ITWNLE_nlt_thisweek_2011-08-04]
*App developers could make better use of open source: Black Duck (ComputerWorld Canada, 7 April 2009) [http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/Daily-News/ddfe31cf-1d18-46e3-9be1-afd4a4253a2b.html]
*Seneca Update by Russell Pangborn (Toronto Users Group for Power Systems, May 2009) [http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/59603362#/59603362/10]
