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Issues w/Solving Bigger Problems in 2019 run #852

Closed ethanwhite closed 1 year ago

ethanwhite commented 5 years ago

This assignment seemed to be a bit much for a lot of folks. There were issues with both retention of earlier material and being able to work on larger more complex problems.

Initial thoughts on changes:

  1. Take the current 3rd exercise from Spatial Data and move it here. It's a direct follow up with review and a little more complex.
  2. Keep the current 2nd exercise, but add a googling for help exercise where the students figure out how import data without a header first.
  3. Add a another simpler exercise that gets an answering a bigger problem, but one that doesn't have any complexity to it. Import some simple data, dplyr pipeline, ggplot.

The one issue with this is that the current Exercise 1 serves as the basis for more complex exercises in both Functions and Loops. This would need to be replaced with something new.

ethanwhite commented 1 year ago

This section has now been completely reworked