Hello,
I'm trying to figure out the best way to manage some enthusiastic adult students (with various technical backgrounds ranging from pure newbee to those with a more significant programming background) on a software development project which will involve creating a website for a small business. My thinking is to use something like Joomla and segmenting the project among these folks.
I want to help them learn basic software development process on something "real". I'd like to keep it simple and then go from there in terms of student and assignment management.
My initial thinking is to do the following: - get a webhost account and give each student their own account perhaps through a reseller account on my side. - use an SCM - probably subversion and do nightly cron based versioning
What else should I do? Is there a better approach? Is there a good webhost account that would work for this? (I was thinking a vps...but that can be a headache in terms of managing things like security)
I want to give the students a long leash so that they could learn from their mistakes, while NOT micro-managing everything on my part and ending up with a large amount of time sink hole where I'd deal with undoing problems rather than focusing on helping them learn.
I would appreciate any info/insight on this.
Ube