musou wrote on February 17, 2018 at 2:59 AM

fight the good fight IMO. my school mostly graded on correctness and program structure only. i was really undisciplined in school about things like revision control, code style, good comments. as soon as i got my first programming job i was struggling to keep up in those areas. getting them to color inside the lines now will be a benefit to them in the long run even if they hate it now as much as i did then.

twovests OP wrote on February 17, 2018 at 3:21 AM

So the thing with this, the deliverable is only being graded on it's existence.

A corporate sponsor comes in with a project (a Real World Thing), works with students who write the code, and provides resources.

Maybe I should try getting them closer in the loop on our code? They've been trying to steer us towards good software engineering (e.g. weekly pointers like "hey go research devops and tell us about it!") but it hasn't been working.

musou wrote on February 17, 2018 at 4:03 AM

that's an especially good idea for anything that will be put to real world use