CST462 Service Learning Reflections
What went well? My time volunteering as a developer for The Document Foundation was genuinely rewarding. The most valuable aspect was getting first hand exposure to a large, real world codebase, which is something that classroom projects can't replicate at scale. I had the opportunity to learn how to set up a professional development environment from scratch, navigate a complex project, and engage with an industry standard code review workflow through Gerrit. I also got experience with bug tracking tools and learned how to locating the right targets for code changes within a massive project structure. Altogether, the experience gave me a much clearer and more real sense of what day to day work as a software developer actually looks like. What was the most impactful part? The most impactful part of this experience was definitely working directly within a large codebase along with a real code review system. It pushed me out of my comfort zone in a productive way like becoming more...