In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Randal L. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>>> "Paul" == Paul Fenwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And you also want exercises that people can get *done* as well. If > you give them an easy one, a medium one, and a hard one, they should > at least be able to do the easy one, and get some sense that they > learned *something*. a lot of the exercises in Stonehenge courses build on previous things too. students will create a short program, then slowly add features. that way, they don't create a bunch of separate short one-off programs, but neither do they have to create a huge script from scratch. > Also, I've seen variation of an *order of magnitude* in speed to > complete exercises. So definitely you need things that will challenge > the fast coders. indeed. Tom Pheonix estimates the time for the Learning Perl exercises, and i tell my students to multiply by three. :)
