I am going to teach a new class!
I will be a lab assistant for Computer Science II. As the one and only lab assistant for this course, my responsibilities will be to write and grade the lab assignments for the course and to be present for the labs and office hours. Since I get to write the assignments, I will not have to grade a bunch of nitpicky, time-consuming things. More or less, I will be the answer man. I will not have to give any lectures. The lecturers are a professor and a doctorate student, who seems pretty easy to work with. I think this class will work just fine for me and my schedule, and I am looking forward to it.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
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That's really exciting! I hope it all works out well for you. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks. I seem to remember that you are starting at a new school this fall. How is that going?
ReplyDeleteReally well. I'm enjoying all of my classes and finding them all highly interesting (although, I don't agree with everything some of my professors are saying). So far, it's been a lot of fun, but I've got a ton of reading and writing to do over the semester!
ReplyDeleteIs it a data structures class? Those are probably the funnest to teach IMHO. Also, it is comical when you get to grade an assignment where someone used hardcoded print statements to make you think that their data structure works.
ReplyDeleteI am teaching the lab session for an introductory programming class. I have not discovered any cheaters yet, but I have noticed that some people have the difficult ways of doing simple things.
ReplyDeleteOne assignment specified that something had to be done inside a loop. I had a couple people who wrote everything out manually and put the entire thing inside a loop, which ran once. (This defeats the purpose of a loop.)
I will be a grader for a data structures class, so I might get a chance to see some strange things.
Haha. for (int i = 1; i == 1; i++) { }
ReplyDeleteSoooo did this end up being one of your favorite classes that you taught in grad school?
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