Re: Student Project Ideas

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Mar 29 2007 18:54, Kyle Moffett wrote:
>
> One thing that I think is fairly non-obvious to newcomers is that Linux kernel
> development is not done at all the way they teach you in your Large Scale
> Software Engineering classes.  Many of those classes talk much about careful
> design (whether top-down, bottom-up, outside-in, waterfall, spiral,
> $BUZZWORD_OF_THE_DAY) and detailed unit-testing, whereas Linux
> kernel development isn't really "designed" at all.

Well, linux kernel is "extreme programming" - hack away until it
works, care about a design shape and stable API later.


Jan
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