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:
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.
Keep the current 2nd exercise, but add a googling for help exercise where the students figure out how import data without a header first.
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.
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:
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.