rscotchmer

Well, this is it -- my final blog post for DPS909. When I started this course, I was quite honestly dreading what was to come. I'd heard a lot from my colleagues -- even those with prior open-source development -- about how this was one of the hardest courses they have ever taken. I heard that I'd be devoting most of my week to completing the coursework, that the bugs I decided to work on would vanish or get taken by others at the last second, and so on and so forth. Most terrifying, though, was the fact that I'd never touched an open-source project before. The thought of getting involved in a project like that was paralyzing, and I was dead certain that I was going to make a fool of myself. And yet, in spite of all of this, I still signed up for DPS909 anyway. The reason? I needed to beef up my resume. My first co-op term was coming up, and I didn't have anything software development-related on my resume. Not great, considering I'd be looking for a j