I'll take funniest and pedagogically useful for my flub at UW teaching with Titus Brown. I tasked the students with a few shell problems, last of which was to combine knowledge of wildcards and basic piping to list only the directories in the current path. This was a problem I came up with on the fly, not realizing how difficult it actually was and not knowing ls -d yet myself! Everyone made many good attempts learning along the way and expected a bind-blowing answer. But all I had to say was "It was a trick question!" Luckily someone in the room knew ls -d and we all learned something. I suspect Titus was just amused by my situation and wanted to see how I dealt with it :)
On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 1:50 PM, Greg Wilson < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Really enjoying this discussion, but it's got me wondering: what was the > best (funniest or most pedagogically useful) error you ever made in front > of a class? Or saw someone else make? > > cheers, > Greg > > -- > Dr Greg Wilson > Director of Instructor Training > Software Carpentry Foundation > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org >
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