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barbagroup / JITcode-MechE

Online learning modules to learn computing in a problem-based context within Mechanical Engineering
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Additional Question for Practice #24

Open zwade opened 10 years ago

zwade commented 10 years ago

Looking over these modules, I'm afraid that because all the code is handed to them on a silver platter, they won't pay any attention to it and will just skim over. If at the end you have an additional problem (probably an easier one) that uses the same techniques, it would force them to understand how the code is actually working.

gforsyth commented 10 years ago

Agreed. Coming up with "practical" problems is the hardest part of this endeavor. Definitely throw out any ideas you have -- we should also chat later this week with @labarba and brainstorm some ideas about possible workflows for the students between nbviewer, their own wakari accounts and anything else they might have at hand.

zwade commented 10 years ago

Yeah, it would be nice if we had a little more control over their interpreter, allowing us to do something like Udacity or Khan Academy where we can check their output against what we are looking for.

gforsyth commented 10 years ago

That would be nice -- we may end up having to roll our own solution on that front. Short of that, a simpler projecteuler style "submit answer" with a yes/no response might do the trick