Re: Suggestions for topics in an Ada course?

["Peter C. Chapin" <pchapin@sover.net>]

Larry Kilgallen wrote:

> To emulate the real world, I would suggest something where students
> have to modify code written by others (perhaps different students
> in the earlier parts of the class) without participation of those
> others.
> 
> I could envision grading schemes that involve not just how well a
> given student does but how their team does, and how the successor
> team does with code written by the team that student was on in the
> first place.

I appreciate your thoughts and I agree that doing something like this
would be good. However, I think it would be hard to pull this off in an
immature (first time) course. The classroom situation is inherently
artificial for the sake of providing a uniform educational experience
and generating fair grades. Some things from the real world are hard to
simulate outside the scope of special projects, and the like. This isn't
to say that it shouldn't be tried or that it can't be done. However,
it's probably not something I'd want to try on the first iteration.

Peter