Chris, I'm not sure that I understand your argument. How about this
scenario, which is what I do: Students are assigned problems, without
solutions. They are given some time to work them out and turn them in.
Then they are given the solutions, most of which I go over in class.
This does
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Am 27.01.2005 um 21:28 schrieb Paul Hudak:
Chris, I'm not sure that I understand your argument. How about this
scenario, which is what I do: Students are assigned problems,
without solutions. They are given some time to work them out and
turn
Christian Hofer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That is perfectly alright with me. The problem that we are
discussing is that it would be helpful to have the solutions to the
exercises for a book that I buy for studying on my own.
How about:
1) Solve the excercises, and publish the solutions
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Christian Hofer wrote:
who have to learn the interesting stuff completely on our own, because
bad luck supplies us only with Java teachers (although other professors
use Scheme, Lisp, Prolog)
That's my experience, too!
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Dear Hamilton,
I think we just have a different framing of the problem. You are
confronted with the laziness of students and want to teach them
something anyway. By that you are forced to disrespect the autonomy of
students who are intrinsically motivated (e.g. by giving bonus points
on
Paul Hudak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I'm not sure how Simon Thompson feels, or other instructors using his or
my book, but a downside of posting all of the solutions is that the
problems cannot be assigned for homework.
That's true. Being a self-learner I forgot that your books are used
Maybe I am too much rooted in the German university system, where the
students' autonomy is held high (against all evidence). But I never
understood, why we - who have to learn the interesting stuff completely
on our own, because bad luck supplies us only with Java teachers
(although other
Dear Chris--
Many of us instructors who use (or have used) these textbooks (or
others that have exercises) in university classes have found from
experience that
1. Students learn best from exercises when they make a real effort to
solve them before looking at the instructors' solutions.
b.
David Owen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Unfortuantely I don't know of anywhere that the exercise answers can be
found, even after some google searching. I would definitely find them
useful though as there are a couple I haven't been able to work out.
Me too. And I hope we're not the only one
Ketil Malde ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Another option is posting the excercise to this list (or perhaps in
comp.lang.functional), along with your current effort at solving it.
I consider it would be useful to have the the whole collection somewhere, maybe
on wiki since Thompson's book (beside
David Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Do you know if there are solutions to exersises available somewhere?
Have you gone through the whole book, i.e. all the exercises?
Unfortuantely I don't know of anywhere that the exercise answers can
be found, even after some google searching.
Another
Gour ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote RE- :
Do you know if there are solutions to exersises available somewhere?
Have you gone through the whole book, i.e. all the exercises?
Sincerely,
Gour
Hi Gour,
Unfortuantely I don't know of anywhere that the exercise answers can be
found, even after some google
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