Open-Source Education Development: An Experiential Capstone Report

Southeastern Louisiana University's curriculum is built around preparing students with the project experience they need to enter the workforce well prepared. Concluding the Industry Connect Initiative, part of the curriculum that is focused around preparing students with real world experience, is a capstone project where students will have a real client who will give them a task to accomplish and will be expected to present working code for the task at the end of the semester. Last semester, my client gave my group the task of creating an LMS embeddable application to check basic Java syntax for introductory computer science courses. My group chose to use a technology called H5P and due to several obstacles, primarily based on poor documentation, we were unable to deliver to our client a complete product. This experience was nonetheless a very productive learning experience.