Question reference: S2W-01899
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: 7 August 2003
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Current status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 27 August 2003
Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the principles of open source are included in the teaching of IT and programming and, if so, how these principles are included.
Answer
School pupils studying National Qualification courses in computing or in information systems will learn about the various sources for software. At Higher level and above the teaching of software development and programming places considerable emphasis on modularity and re-usability, providing opportunities for teachers to make reference to the principles of an open source approach.