And you think the kind of lecturer who uses "Teach yourself C in 21 days" has a chance in hell of motivating students?
P. On Sep 11, 2010, at 10:27, Mwirima Byaruhanga wrote: > Otandeka Simon Peter wrote thus on 9/11/10 9:47 AM: >> The problem could be, there are hardly any lecturers or project supervisors >> doing some serious(hard core) programming or understand programming from >> first principles (even in PHP :-) ) to challenge the students to write such >> C or C++ programs. I stand to be corrected :-) >> >> Most of them stop at downloading already done examples from websites >> of universities in UK/US to set as course works and exams. And yes, from >> "Teach yourself C in 21 days". > > That's not necessarily a show-stopper. > > The key idea here is to "motivate" and "challenge" the students to > do even more than they think they can. The motivator (supervisor) > does not necessarily have to be able to do better. > > eb > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
