On 11-02-2015 14:04, Niall Douglas wrote:
On 11 Feb 2015 at 10:25, Thorsten Ottosen wrote:
So each proposal needs a seperate competency test?
Not necessarily. If the student has already written a library exceeding 1000 lines then we can examine that in lieu of an exam. The library just needs to be verifiable as not copy and pasted from someone else. Past GSoCs count too of course.
Usually for the competency test one asks for some small part of the overall proposal. You're basically just checking if they can figure out on their own how to build Boost, how to use Boost.Test etc. and to get some look at their C++ ability e.g. do they understand exception safety? If they can't manage that on their own, the chances are low they would complete a GSoC anyway.
I think if they cannot show code that have already made as students, it doesn't make much sense to expose them to a competency test, does it? -Thorsten