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[tools-yak@collab] Re: having students write in a wiki

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From: Bill Seitz <bill@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 19:55:31 -0400
Message-id: <3EC2D773.3000404@fluxent.com>
You have them use Perl, and expect them to understand refactoring and 
figure out how to share?!? :)    (01)

John Sechrest wrote:    (02)

>Bill Seitz <bill@fluxent.com> writes:
>
> % John, could you tell us more about that class. What subject is it? What 
> % do people write about? How do you connect the works of different students?
> % http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/StimulatingLearningProjects
>
>
> I require WikiWork in all the classes I teach. I have taught it 
> with CS 295 - Intro to Web design
> and CS 312 - Introduction to System Administration
> and CS 372 - Introduction to Computer Networking.
>
>
> And I require them to do essentially the same projects, but with 
> the content different. IE, they all of to write a perl program,
> but they each have to write a different one. But they can 
> share sub components. If they can figure out how to share.
>
....    (03)

>
> And I have to explicitly work on developing the concept of 
> refactoring.
>
> They do not get it. And the do not do it naturally.
>
>  
>    (04)

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