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International Symposium on Formal Methods

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Open Source Software as a Learning Tool for Computer Science Students

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In this paper authors’ experience of contributing to Open Source Software (OSS) is described. Contributions were done as a part of the OSS course taken at Nazarbayev University during the Spring 2019 term. Two junior bachelors degree students described their experience, motivations to contribute to OSS, selected projects, course structure and the lists of activities they performed. Assessment of this experience by other community members and the course instructor are also reported in this publication. This paper also studies how the course structure can affect people’s ability to make contributions in general.

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  1. Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan

    Assiya Khuzyakhmetova & Aidarbek Suleimenov

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  1. Assiya Khuzyakhmetova
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Correspondence to Assiya Khuzyakhmetova or Aidarbek Suleimenov .

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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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Khuzyakhmetova, A., Suleimenov, A. (2020). Open Source Software as a Learning Tool for Computer Science Students. 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_15

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