Re: Large University Software Projects

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srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) writes:
> The latter part of the above statement is incorrect.  There are many large,
> long term software engineering projects going on at universities that student
s
> participate in, both as thesis projects, and as class subjects, large in the
> sense of systems dealing with hundreds of thousands of lines of code.
...
Does the average undergrad computer science student work on these large
projects?
 
When you use the phrase "thesis projects" I would assume, perhaps wrongly,
that these projects use only honors undergrads or graduate students.  In
my humble opinion, all students would benefit from the experience of
working on "long term software engineering projects."  I believe that
every person graduating with a degree in Computer Science should have
worked on at least one large program (100,000 SLOCs or more).

By the way, could you state the language used for these large projects?
 
Robert Parkhill 
Paramax, A Unisys company