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rolandweber / Pityoulish

A collection of programming/debugging exercises to support a course on Distributed Systems.
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Feedback: Tutorial 2018 #69

Closed rolandweber closed 5 years ago

rolandweber commented 6 years ago

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After one week, hardly anyone had completed the Tutorial. Apparently, some people thought they should stop after installing an IDE, without actually practicing to use it? Despite all my cautionary tales about clueless IDE users, they were planning to remain clueless. Luckily, the first classroom session is planned after the second week.

After the second week, participants reported efforts from half an hour to over an hour. About 15 minutes of that for the actual debugging and coding, the rest for environment and IDE setup.

During the Sockets classroom exercise (#70), IDEs were a major problem again. One student suggested to drop the IDE altogether and just go with the command line. I'll change the Tutorial to de-emphasize IDEs, see #72.

rolandweber commented 6 years ago

The table of contents for the Tutorial currently starts...

  1. Prerequisites
  2. Setup
  3. Exercise ...

Maybe "Exercise" was understood to mean "classroom exercise", and that's why people stopped after the setup. I'll rename that section to "Tutorial Exercise" to make it clear.