At 09:09 AM 6/25/02 -0400, Christopher Hicks wrote:
>On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Stephen Collyer wrote:
> > See my response to Tom Phoenix that covers this point. In brief:
> >
> > 1. Lots of exercises (maybe with multiple solutions).
TIMTOWTDI? :-) Although personally, I think each instructor should
come up with their own solution, it's the one they'll find most defensible.
> > 2. Trainer chooses the right set for the course.
> > 3. Problem solved.
>
>There should be some schema (XML, SQL inserts or something) for exchanging
>exercises. From what has been talked about so far I would think there
>should be a variety of meta-information available too:
ETOOCOMPLICATED. The thing that counts is the idea. For the most
part, this could be expressed in a few sentences ("Write a program to
do XYZ. Find a way to use map().") And then there are the
fill-in-the-blank exercises ("Some of the program below has already
been written for you. [...] Replace this comment with code that will XYZ.")
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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
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