Subj : Re: Good examples of programming course lecture notes
To   : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer
From : Duane Bozarth
Date : Tue Sep 20 2005 05:43 pm

clemenr@wmin.ac.uk wrote:
> 
> Well, in the places I have taught in there is typically a mixture of
> formal lectures, and set laboratory work. It is "fashionable" to say
> that it would be better to have 100% tutorials. But in reality that's
> just too inefficient.
....

The (again I only had one prof w/ a British background and this was
roughly 40 years ago) chap ( :) ) we had implied simply a syllabus was
provided and we were expected to "read" the material.  Office hours were
posted.

Needless to say, for a bunch of 4th/5th year undergraduates w/ a few 1st
year grad students, this was a real shock to us to hear that was how he
proposed to teach the class.  Only time I was ever a part of a "student
rebellion" when we marched en masse dragging him along to the Dean's
office where he was told that in the US he <would> lecture.... :)

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