[Texmacs-dev] software development

[Massimiliano Gubinelli]

Dear all,
 I was giving a look to JabRef (a reference management tool) and I found this 
page:

https://devdocs.jabref.org/teaching

where they propose development of their software as "practical course" to 
university students, I think in computer-science departments. 

It is an idea I was considering some years ago for TeXmacs, namely give as part 
of my teaching duties at the university a "practicum" on open source software 
development using TeXmacs as platform. It would have the advantage to cover 
serveral programming languages (scheme, C/C++, python) and programming 
strategies (functional, object oriented) and moreover several domain problem 
(typesetting, conversion, user interaction, networking, etc...).

It seems that people over there are already doing this kind of stuff 
succesfully.

In particular they offer this as a "service" to university teaching staff, 
indeed they say:

"""
Why university instructors should cooperate with us?

        • No need to think about software engineering excersies any more: 
JabRef has them.

        • No need to provision infra structure

        • High-quality student educuation due to real-world tooling and 
real-world code base

        • Sustainability of student works: No more thrown-away solved 
excercises: They now are incorparted in a real-world product

        • Visibility of your research groups
"""


Best
Max