Comment by jjmarr
1 day ago
This incentivizes me to minimum effort school projects so I can focus on personal projects.
But most professors want students to be creative and inventive on classwork.
I get that this isn't a problem if I treat my schoolwork as having no utility beyond the course I made it for, but that isn't the ideal.
I always found I learned a lot more when I expanded upon the coding assignments and added my own features. Not only did I learn more, I found it much more enjoyable. In some cases it took something that would have just been an assignment and turned it into something useful for me. I’m not sure why not being able to share the code with the world would change the value proposition of doing that stuff?
I also have to assume there is some limit on how long you’re expected to hide your work away? After you graduate, if you make the repo public, what are they going to do?
Well, I've enjoyed it too, but I'd rather spend that time contributing to OSS if it's potentially the difference between getting a job.