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- From: tsmaster@media.mit.edu (David LeCompte)
- Subject: Re: Teaching by Value (was Re: Teaching the Basics)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.155557.20409@news.media.mit.edu>
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- References: <1992Aug19.142513.14893@husc13.harvard.edu> <9208241338.AA01262@golf.visix.com> <1992Aug26.105222.8034@ITcorp.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 15:55:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug26.105222.8034@ITcorp.com> geoff@ITcorp.com (Geoff Kuenning) writes:
- >In article <9208241338.AA01262@golf.visix.com> eric@golf (Eric
- >Wiseblatt) writes:
- >
- >> I dont like the idea of a "Maintainability" grade. Rather, I think
- >> the labs with the course should be planned to *excersize the need
- >> for* maintainability.
- >
- >I agree most strongly. A couple of years ago, I was the TA for a
- >software engineering course in which the prof assigned a group-written
- >project for which he deliberately changed the specs as the course went
- >along. Being a fair sort of guy, he made a point of announcing up
- >front that he was going to do this. Nevertheless, when evaluation
- >time came, a number of students complained about the capriciousness of
- >the spec changes. Boy, are they going to be annoyed when they get a
- >job and find out what *real* customers are like! (BTW, the most
- >talented students took the warning to heart and had little trouble
- >keeping up with things.)
-
- I took a very similar class, and our prof. told us up front that there
- was going to be a feature that we would have to add to our project. It
- would be announced sometime before the project was due. I don't recall
- if the date that the surprise feature would be announced was announced,
- but I think that it shouldn't have been.
-
- (As it turns out, we were writing a game, and the feature was UNDO,
- which my group had already implemented.)
-
- -David LeCompte
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