[Uw-ruby] HW deadline suggestion

[Jonathan Shakes]

Sounds good to me.

-Jonathan Shakes

On Nov 12, 2007 6:24 PM, Richard Leickly <Richard at iphc.washington.edu>
wrote:

>  Here is a suggestion for the Ruby HW:
>
> In Russ Moul's UW Extension Java class (last year), HW was assigned on Wed
> but due 9 days later on the Fri of the following week.  This may sound kind
> of nuts; but it actually worked out well for this reason: Students would
> work on their assignments (which were very hard), then on the following Wed,
> Russ would spend part of the class answering questions, explaining stuff,
> etc.  Students who had worked on the assignment; but were stuck could get
> unstuck.  Students who had done no work before then probably didn't
> understand what was being talked about, so gained little. No, he didn't give
> the answer away.
>
> I propose this model for our Ruby class.  That would make HW 6 due at
> midnight Nov 16.  (And yes, if you must know, I am stuck on HW 6.)
>
> Richard Leickly
>
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