[plt-scheme] Re: answers from htdp

Grading the stuff yourself is so antiquated. Out source it! --  
Matthias :-)


On Aug 20, 2008, at 11:50 AM, Grant Rettke wrote:

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> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote:
>>> I'm on the beach in Rio
>>
>> Please enjoy the beach and don't worry about things like people
>> wondering if somehow the lack of answers impairs their learning.
>
> Just wanted to clarify my comment here.
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> My original question was supposed to ask "Are there any observable
> drawbacks of not providing answers to students?". I figured that it
> was obvious that providing them wouldn't work because why do the work
> if you've got that answers. In my case, I am interested in the answer
> because we are starting a HTDP study group at work, and, we don't have
> the answers. Since management was interested in "grading" the work
> done by everyone, it did make me wonder what we would gain by having
> the answers. Ultimately, since I am doing this "nights and weekends"
> (in other words on my own initiative), I chose not to make the time to
> grade homework (I think it would take too much time that I don't want
> to give it). So *that* is what drove the question, but, I don't think
> we, non-classroom-students, are necessarily alone in suspecting that
> we aren't missing anything ; though the original poster comment made
> me wonder what we *could* be missing.
>
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