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.
Too 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.
Wow. 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.
I’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.
