bab5bea - Hint more heavily to think about how many pointers need updating in the insert methods
This was, along with printList, the source of the most office hours help requests. I'm not sure I want to give away that it's four pointers though, hence the extra hint to think through it.
a23f8b8 - Nudge students towards using public methods for printList
So. many. people. don't understand that printList is non-member and thus can't access private variables, and then they sit there stumped.
Overall, office hours went really smoothly this semester. We had a queue of 25 people for most of it, even though we were down a TA for an hour and half from 8 - 9:30! Most questions were some form of "I don't know how to printList if I can't use private variables" or "my printList isn't working" (problem with insertAtTail).
Overall, office hours went really smoothly this semester. We had a queue of 25 people for most of it, even though we were down a TA for an hour and half from 8 - 9:30! Most questions were some form of "I don't know how to printList if I can't use private variables" or "my printList isn't working" (problem with insertAtTail).