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Comments for Week of Feb. 9, 2004


Queries, Concerns, Rants, and Raves


Sorry... I posted this on the wrong week!
Its kind of frustrating that TAs just give grades but don't really explain what we've done wrong,I've never even SEEN my grading TA!!! Also, if the program does what its supposed to shouldn't it get full credit? How much can be taken off for syntax....sorry to sound cranky but I'm not sure I understand the point breakdown and feel that grades are being given arbitrarily.
Talk to your TA if you have questions! We don't arbitrarily assign grades, I promise, we all have a grading critera that we follow, and we give partial credit whenever possible. However, there really isn't any reasonable way for us to let every single one of our students know what they did wrong, so if you have a question or complaint with your grade, you need to talk to the person that did the grading! We all have office hours and you have most of our e-mail and screennames for just that reason–so you can ask questions! Summer McWilliams
If you've want to see your grading TA, why not go to his or her office hours? Email or IM him or her? Why not go to see the breakout TA and get explanations? Your Breakout TA has the power to "fix" your grades if something was graded incorrectly. Mark Guzdial
Just wanted to apologize for screwing up the Collage page. I realized after I posted my collage that I used the same name as someone else's, so now both of our pictures look like mine. I'm not on my own computer at the moment; I'm on this old, ridiculously slow thing, and I'm getting a little frustrated trying to turn in my assignment. I just wanted to apologize. So sorry.
Stephanie Henderson
If I could make a fundametal observation/critique. The labs for CS1315 are NOT labs. They are a continuation of the lectures. I, for one, spend a lot of time dealing with minor mistakes that probably could be quickly resolved if there were a knowledable person available to answer questions as I try to write my own program. I would like to do the hands on work in a lab where I can get assistance at the time it is needed. It is especially frustrating when you are trying to do something on your own that has not specifically been done in class.
I SO agree with you, but there is no lab on campus that is large enough to hand CS1315 (or CS1321 or CS1371, for that matter). The College of Computing has been asking for room for such a lab for years from the Campus Administration – we can find the computers, but we need the room. All the existing labs on campus are already too busy without allowing them to be reserved for many hours (essentially, all day) to hold labs with TA's at hand. It's a matter of economics – we don't have the resources, so we have to do them this way. (BTW, just to be formal (see Grading Policy), the Collage assignment was a Homework, not a Lab.) Mark Guzdial
is there going to be a link for the take home test? i cant make class today. thanks...
Take home starts NEXT Friday, and yes, it will be posted on Take-Home Exams-Spring 2004 Mark Guzdial
WebWork is giving me an Internal Service Error whenever I try to View my Grades. :-( Boo-hoo.
I just wanted to say keep up the good work. Although challenging (HW2 did take me 13 hours), I am enjoying this class. I feel as though the material is being presented to us well in class and that the webpage is a great assistance to what we must do. Everything we need to know is on here. Additionally, I am impressed by all the help available. I never feel "alone" when I'm doing CS. There's always someone there to help.
Thanks – speaking for the whole CS1315 gang (instructors and TAs): feedback like that make our days!! Mark Guzdial


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