Here it is, your moment of Zen. That or I just finished grading the first round of CS4 projects. For those of you who are familiar with the project, the first submission is usually awful, averaging somewhere around a low C or high D. Well, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, this year makes past years look like the honor roll. So, without further ado, here we go.
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I have lost my faith in humanity.
Monday, October 2nd, 2006week 9
Thursday, February 16th, 2006Too much work + too little time = palpable decline of brain function. Between more wonderful grading (the most recent round of CS4 netted an average score of 58%), incredibly awesome projects (matrix inversion is hard), and highly-anticipated presentations (give a 15 minute presentation on, well, you know, something), my brain hurts. It hurts real bad.
another round of grading
Monday, February 6th, 2006Wow. Just…wow. Strout and I just finished another round of grading, for CG1 and CS4 projects, and…wow. The only way to describe it is depressing.
Oh, the CS4 project
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006I’m grading for Strout’s CS4 (again) this quarter, and I have to say that I am somewhat distressed by the things I am seeing. Students seem to be getting consistently worse in a few important areas of the class and the project.