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| I highly recommend going to breakout and TA office hours. They should help you. Kelly Lyons |
| Breakout this week is dedicated to HW4. If you are still confused after breakout, please go to a TA or instructor's office hours. If you have gone, then go again. I promise this asignment is not as hard as it seems. It's just a brand new concept, and that generally confuses people. Kelly Lyons |
| On the other hand, people in Tuesday breakouts most likely have not started their asignment yet becuase it was just asigned on Monday and they don't have to ability to ask questions about things that they have done. It is generally hard to understand an explaination on something you haven't even looked at. So there are advantages and disadvantages to both days. But, yes, you can always go to a breakout on a different day if you think it would be more helpful to you. Kelly Lyons |
| If you didn't make a 100 on something you think you should have you can always ask your TA what you got counted off for. A lot of times people miss stuff just because they didn't follow all the directions, like naming the program correctly or turning in a file they were supposed to with their program. So it may not even necessarily be JES related, just ask and I'm sure they will be glad to help! Summer McWilliams |
| I recommend reading the assignment completely and seeing if you did everything it asked you to do. I write the grading criteria based on the assignment. Therefore, make sure to name your function(s) correctly, name your .py file correctly, and make sure your program does what it ask you to do. It might seem like a simple suggestion, but you'll be surprised how many people lose points on basic things. Angela Liang |
| I'm responding to the posting in the Soapbox – it's not meant to be a discussion space, so I'm not going to respond there. The poster said, "Tech should go back to quarters... In the first quarter, they should teach a programming language and make sure people know it. In the second quarter, they should teach the concepts using that language." To start with – I agree. I'd like to be on quarters, too. But Tech didn't move to semester – we were ordered to by the University System of Georgia. So we don't have any say in moving back. On the second point: Lots of schools try that approach, and that's why failure rates are 50% (or more at some schools!) in the first course. How you teach a programming language all by itself? People learn programming to do something. If you try to teach programming all by itself, you end up not teaching so abstractly that nobody learns anything. Mark Guzdial |