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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Suggestions for topics in an Ada course?
Date: 11 Nov 2007 13:32:46 -0600
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In article <4737291e$0$27064$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net>, "Peter C. Chapin" <pchapin@sover.net> writes:

> I have the luxury of teaching a course next semester that can be about
> anything I want.

> The course I'll be teaching has two hours of lecture per week plus a
> three hour "lab" period where the students can work on some sort of
> project or assignment in a supervised setting. So there is a fair amount
> of time available.

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.