[Ilugc] Open Source Lab Syllabus
- From: yuvipanda@xxxxxxxxx (Yuvi Panda)
- Date: Fri Jun 18 20:20:36 2010
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Arun Kumar <open.source@xxxxxxx> wrote:
If any of the faculty members following this list/seeing this email
thread, kindly requesting to get rid of using standard programs for using lab
exercises
and come out with individual assignments for students.
We convinced one (new) staff to actually make the students write their
own programs. Simple Data Structures. Linked Lists, Double Linked
Lists, Binary Trees, etc.
Result? Three months were down, and 90% of the class was *still
struggling with doubly linked lists*. That was not counting those who
still hadn't been able to get Singly linked lists to work. Most of
which was, mind you - still copied - from other students
(unofficially).
The staff are not entirely to blame. They're 'just doing their job' -
which is to help students get 'marks', and not to actually get them to
learn anything.
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Yuvi Panda T
http://yuvi.in/blog
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