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On 8/3/2011 8:14 PM, Steve Holden wrote:
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<div>After some three years labor I (@holdenweb) at last find
myself approaching the completion of the Python Certificate
Series with O'Reilly School of Technology (@OReillySchool).</div>
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<div>At OSCON last week the team fell to talking about the final
assignment (although the Certificate is not a certification,
students only progress by answering real quiz questions, not the
usual multiple-choice task). Success also requires that they
complete a project at the end of each (of the ~60) lesson(s).</div>
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<div>We would ideally like the last project to to be something
that demonstrates at least some minimal involvement with the
Python community. Something like "get a Python answer upvoted on
StackOverflow", for example, or getting a question answered on
c.l.p. At the same time it shouldn't be anything that places a
burden on the community (otherwise the hundredth student would
be abused and the thousandth murdered).</div>
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<div>So I wondered if anyone had any good ideas.</div>
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<div>regards</div>
<div> Steve</div>
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Just a thought.<br>
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What about contributing code or documentation to an established
project? <br>
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I dislike the idea of getting an answer up voted. First of all, for
people trying to do it honestly you are putting <br>
their completion into the hands of strangers, secondly, it would be
very easy to cheat by having someone else, <br>
or themselves with a puppet account, up vote the answer.<br>
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There are a metric grip of established projects that could use a
little help with documentation, code examples, etc. <br>
I think this is a better route to community participation.
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