Class 26: Continued Discussion of Mid-Semester Examination

Held: Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Summary: We continue our consideration of the mid-semester examination.

Related Pages:

• EBoard.

Notes:

• Don't forget to respond to the three readings for Friday. If you have trouble reacting, then you might consider rhetorical style of the pieces, syntactic choices (and Ruby certainly makes different syntactic choices), or differences in model of object between Ruby and Java.

Overview:

• What should we do?
• Problem 3, continued.
• Problem 4.
• Presentations (if time).

Reacting to the Exam

• Given that I care about you learning / understanding this material, what can I do to help with that?
• Given that grades should be secondary to making sure that you learn the material, what should I do about the grades?

Exam Solutions, Continued

• We'll finish going over problem 3
• And we'll start going over problem 4.

Presentations

• The last two weeks of the semester are reserved for student presentations.
• We may spend some time today going over planning for those presentations. (Otherwise, we'll go over it next week.)