Re: Student Assignment


Patricia Shanahan wrote:
Rufus wrote:
Patricia Shanahan wrote:
Rufus wrote:
I'm "helping" (?) some high school students with their entry-level
computer science course. They need to write a class file that goes with
the following client file. The final grade is determined by the sum of
the higher of the students's two test scores and the exam. Offhand, I
don't remember the exact cut-offs for the letter grades, but it was
something like: >= 90 A; >=80 B; >= 60 C; >= 50 D; < 50 F.
Any help would be appreciated!
...

I'm a volunteer tutor for a high school calculus class. The biggest
difficulty is finding ways to help the students find the answers for
themselves - often much, much harder than it would be to solve the
problem myself, and tell them the answer.

One approach that seems to work quite well is to ask them questions. In
the beginning Java context that might be something like "What does the
assignment require you to do?", "What pieces of that do you already know
how to do?"...

Do they have a good textbook? Do they know about on-line tutorials? Do
you think they would benefit from my beginning programmer advice:
http://home.earthlink.net/~patricia_shanahan/beginner.html?

Have they done all prior assignments? I've noticed the calculus students
seem to think mathematics is a series of disjoint pieces, and that they
can learn later material without thinking about earlier material. I
suspect young CS students might assume they can jump straight into a
later exercise without having done everything that leads up to it.

Patricia

I am asking more on behalf in order to maximize our quality together
time. Until last week, I thought java was another tasty hot beverage.
They seem to know the if/else loop.


Even without knowing Java, you could take some of the questions in my
original response, and use them as starting points to help the students
get thinking.

If they are having trouble getting started, point them to the URL I
gave. If they have got started, and are having trouble with some
specific point, work with them to formulate a good newsgroup question, a
useful skill in its own right, and post the question.

Patricia

Assignment is already past due . . .

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