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Challenges Faced by Students in an Open Source Software Undergraduate Course

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The Open Source Software (OSS) development is gaining popularity from year to year, however, entering the OSS community still remains a challenging task. In this work, we describe challenges faced by a beginner OSS code-developer during the first contribution. Additionally, we analyze our experience and offer hints for potential newcomers. Whole work was done as the project of the Open Source Software undergraduate course at the Computer Department of Nazarbayev University.

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Thanks to Professor Antonio Cerone from the Department of Computer Science in Nazarbayev University for valuable discussions.

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  1. Computer Science Department, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, 010000, Republic of Kazakhstan

    Dias Issa

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  1. McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

    Emil Sekerinski

  2. University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Nelma Moreira

  3. University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    José N. Oliveira

  4. Argo Ai, Munich, Germany

    Daniel Ratiu

  5. University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

    Riccardo Guidotti

  6. University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

    Marie Farrell

  7. University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

    Matt Luckcuck

  8. University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

    Diego Marmsoler

  9. University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    José Campos

  10. University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    Troy Astarte

  11. Claude Bernard University, Lyon, France

    Laure Gonnord

  12. Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan

    Antonio Cerone

  13. University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

    Luis Couto

  14. University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

    Brijesh Dongol

  15. University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany

    Martin Kutrib

  16. University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

    Pedro Monteiro

  17. Airbus Operations S.A.S., Toulouse, France

    David Delmas

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Issa, D. (2020). Challenges Faced by Students in an Open Source Software Undergraduate Course. In: Sekerinski, E., et al. Formal Methods. FM 2019 International Workshops. FM 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12233. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54997-8_14

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