Open Source ‘Software Development’

< Seoeun Hong , Leah Durrett ,

Nicole Sosa , Rufaida Khan >

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[Oppia]

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< Oppia provides a novel and engaging approach to online learning >

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Oppia { introduction }

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• Oppia is a free and open-source online learning platform that aims to improve access to quality education worldwide for everyone.

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• Allows users to create and share interactive educational content and uses a conversational approach to learning. This approach provides learners immediate feedback, making the learning experience more engaging and effective.

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Oppia { why? }

• A humanitarian project that was meaningful to us
• Community is:
• Friendly - welcoming to new contributors
• Active - get responses within a day
• Organized - issues are assigned, no one takes assigned issues

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Oppia { interaction }

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Communication via GitHub issues and discussion posts

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Oppia { timeline } �

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Code Contributions

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Oppia { timeline: milestones } �

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Familiarizing

Road Block

Eureka!

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Oppia { familiarizing: GitHub }

Looking around the Oppia repository

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Oppia { familiarizing: issues }

Looking around the Oppia repository

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Oppia { familiarizing: installation }

Installing Oppia to our local machines

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Oppia { familiarizing: Codebase/style }

Looking around Oppia’s codebase and coding style

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Oppia { road blocks }

1. Installation
1. Took a week and a half �
2. Was a challenge for Mac M1 chip and Windows�
3. Only occasionally works in Windows if at all!

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2. Finding the code

• Huge Code base�
• Code for one element spanned across multiple files�
• Was difficult to pinpoint what element was causing the issue

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3. Finding web pages

• Difficulty accessing certain pages on Oppia server�
• Installation document didn’t provide any guidance on how to access them�
• Issues did not have proper steps to reproduce certain errors either

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Oppia { eureka: contributions }

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Oppia { eureka: contributions }

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• Feature Requests Example
• Propose Gender Neutral Profile Image:

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Oppia { eureka: contributions }

• Bug Report Issues:
• Pinpointed UI bugs such as:

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Oppia { eureka: contributions }

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Our first code contribution (merged):

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Oppia { eureka: contributions }

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Our fourth code contribution (pending):

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Oppia { learning experience }

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• Installing this project
• Navigating the huge and complex codebase
• How to report issues (Bug/Feature) and request to be assigned issues in a proper way
• How to ask for help from other contributors or maintainers if we are stuck or do not understand what they are asking for
• Being transparent with your skill-level

- Being respectful of each other while communicating

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Oppia { learning experience }

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Rufaida

Nicole

Leah

Seoeun

Reading code takes time, especially when there are no comments

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Taught me not to give up quickly

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Persistence and patience is key to solving any issue

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Learning about linting tools to test code contributions

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Asking for help from maintainer when you are stuck

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�Communication & Patience is extremely important

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Willingness to learn, ask questions

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Utilizing everyone’s experiences well

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Communicating with maintainers and contributors

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Pair coding

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Web development overall

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Bash command and local machine itself

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Oppia { best moments: group }

• INSTALLATION!�
• Our first contribution�
• Working together in a friendly, positive, kind and calming environment, FREE lollipops

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(we loved working in all girls team 💗)

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Oppia { best moments: individual }

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Seoeun

Installation Success and seeing localhost run

Being assigned an issue that I assumed the maintainers would handle themselves!

Finding the Documentation Page for navigating Oppia pages was a major win!

When first code contribution get merged after communicating with maintainers

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Oppia { hindsight }

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• Yes, we do think it was a good idea to pick this project
• We were able to contribute several ideas to Oppia (i.e. gender neutral profile icon & web accessibility)
• We were met with a warm welcome and were encouraged by the maintainers throughout! (@seanlip & @U8NWXD)
• We got quick responses from the community, and they were patient and kind in explaining themselves to us
• We would definitely pick this project again! :)

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Oppia { future }

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Rufaida

Nicole

Leah

Seoeun

I will not continue contributing to Oppia on my own because my computer runs very slowly with Oppia and it takes quite a while to navigate the code base.

I will continue contributing if Oppia continues running on my machine without any issues and if there are feasible tasks I can handle within a reasonable time frame.

I will not be contributing to Oppia in the future, simply because the installation ultimately failed for my device, I am otherwise interested in the project!

I will continue contributing to Oppia if they introduce new features that I’m interested in, such as data analysis, instead of focusing on web-dev features we’ve worked on so far

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< Thank you ♥ >

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