[sp23] mentor08: Mutable Lists, Iterators and Generators

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General Thoughts

• Worksheet was good.
• Table at the beginning of the mutability worksheet was helpful.
• Wish there was more function-writing list mutation problems.

Mutable List Questions

Q1 (WWPD Mutable Lists):

• Took a lot of time, perhaps could be shortened a bit.
• Took another family around 10 minutes, "very quick."
• Good problem, covers the basics -- felt very similar to two weeks ago.

Q2 (Nice Ice Cream):

• Took too long.

Q3 (Accumulate):

• Took around 10-15 minutes.
• "Big fan of this question."
• Could've been replaced with a function-writing algorithmic list mutation question.
• Good function writing problem. Keep this in the next iteration of this worksheet.

Iterators and Generators

Q4 (Skip Machine):

• Question took a very long time (15 minutes).
• Students didn't feel like they new enough about OOP to tackle this question.
• Long question, would have liked a bit more explanation in the meta.
• Hard mix of both iterators and OOP.

Q5 (Foo):

• Not very long, maybe 5 minutes.
• Question was a good introduction to iterators and generators.

Q6 (In Order):

• This took around 8 minutes.
• Taught yielding from pretty well.
• Put this as the first question on iterators section.

Q7 (All Sums):

• Took around 10 minutes.
• Allows you to teach for loops, generators, and tree recursion.
• Good question; very similar to 61A homework problems.