<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">A.M. Kuchling</b> <<a href="mailto:amk@amk.ca">amk@amk.ca</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 04:07:18PM +1000, Anthony Baxter wrote:<br>> This one was at least personally addressed<br>> (well, to "Python Contributors"), which is a step ahead of most of<br>> them.<br><br>
What gets me is that such surveys are invalid because the respondents<br>aren't randomly selected -- they're the people who care enough to<br>answer. It would be more efficient and reliable to just go look at a<br>
sampling of project web sites and look at their bug trackers, but that<br>requires effort from the student.<br><br>Recently I was interviewing a student who worked on a project that had<br>instrumented an IDE to record every operation (editing, saving, etc.)
<br>in a database. I asked "so what did you learn from this data?", and<br>was told that no one has analyzed it; they're just *accumulating* the<br>data. It's stamp collecting as computer science.</blockquote>
<div><br><br>I am putting way too much effort into my PhD if this kind of stuff can get me a degree. =)<br><br>-Brett <br></div><br></div>