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Some people are serious about internships
Four interns, ten weeks, one piece of functional software ...
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Project Aardvark
The experience was filmed ..."Instead of wasting their talents giving them the usual dull and unimportant tasks of a typical summer internship, we decided to let the interns create a complete new software product, from beginning to end, over the course of one summer. With experienced software developers as mentors, the team will design, program, test, and roll out a complete software product over the course of one hectic summer, going from concept to paying customers in about ten weeks."
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The interns produced Copilot for Fog Creek Software. From scratch. (Not that the interns were new to coding, nor working in the dark.)Four interns are brought into Manhattan and given 12 weeks to design, develop, debug and ship a program that will change the way computer geeks around the world fix their friends' computers. Boondoggle Films presents a journey through the world of software development from the perspective of a unique upstart, four quirky interns, and the world of The Geek.
"the power of a good development environment and the value of a good product specification."I imagine the "Aeron chairs, desks, Dell Workstations (Dual-Xeon, 2GB RAM, 150GB of RAID storage, Gigabit Ethernet), flat screen monitors (dual 20" for each computer), and UPSes" supplied for each intern helped a fair bit. Decent tools sure do lubricate the wheels of production.
[I do enjoy reading Joel on Software.]
