CST462S Reflection

  • What went well? What would you improve? What was the most impactful part? What challenges did you face?

Overall I felt like the service project idea is good for exposure. What I would personally improve is to try to match students with a site supervisor with the experience that they are signing up to do as my site supervisor wasn't technically a developer and more of a community outreach who I felt could of connected me with one of the developer at their company to provide better mentorship. I faced many challenges for this specific service, the first being my main resource is the wiki and for any variances that I experience, I would have to contact someone in the IRC channel and hope someone provides assistance.


  • What advice do you have for future SL students?

For this specific site location, I specifically selected it because I thought I could leverage my C++ abilities and do some dev work. But the entire service was spent on mostly onboarding and reading documentations. I tried to skip the reading as I did not have the time to go over the 25 hours service hours and went straight to reading and learning the code.

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