lecy
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4 years ago It's a fair question.
These "social coding" exercises are weekly. The goals is for some to be easy but a good review / reminder of material (I'm trying to make notes when I see students making consistent errors and translate them to practice problems).
And some will take a little more thought and creativity, and won't necessarily have a single solution. So more of a chance to work through some reasoning and get feedback as well as learn from how others might tackle the same problem.
The intent is for you to attempt the problems and share solutions. But it is a challenge that the longer you wait the harder it gets to contribute to the conversations.
I would like students to participate in these exercises each week. It's fine if you arrived at similar solutions as what are posted and acknowledge as much. But I would rather NOT have people making non-substantive comments just to log points. So it's a bit of a tricky balance with how YellowDig logs points.
Let me look through the board this week and I may re-calibrate points a bit to ensure it is a productive assignment.
Note that you will also share and discuss some lab solutions and other course work like your website and code-through assignment so the points will not be derived entirely from these exercises.
In order to earn full participation points for YellowDig, do we need to earn the full 20 points each week (or have earned 100 points by semester's end)?
@lecy