Subj : Re: Good examples of programming course lecture notes
To   : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer
From : Duane Bozarth
Date : Tue Sep 20 2005 08:35 pm

clemenr@wmin.ac.uk wrote:
> 
> Duane Bozarth wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Hmmmm.... I have heard stories of experiences very similar to yours. I
> more or less quote "here's what you have to learn, go away and learn
> it." I don't like naming the university involved, but it was an
> extremely well-known university in the UK. So rather than being UK
> academic culture, it may be a UK academic sub-culture.

Well, he was from such an environment and had matriculated there at a
very early age so he was quite a bright young chap and as is often the
case at an early age, pretty full of himself. :)

(That said, he did do a pretty good job of figuring it out as he went
and I ended up working in his lab for a couple of years and getting
along w/ him quite nicely.)

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