[plt-scheme] Is sharing unit tests for problems in HtDP a good way to facilitate learning?

From: Eduardo Bellani (ebellani at gmail.com)
Date: Mon Dec 15 08:52:42 EST 2008

In the case of people who are doing that on their own, where motivations is
something that you can take for granted and there is no interest in
cheating I think
unit tests and stuff like that work great (I for instance always go
for the tests whenever I want
to learn a new piece of software, and most guys from the agile field
do the same I guess).
I think the "problem" with this approach is for college students
looking only for grades
(the grading system sucks IMHO) in their testing, hmm, test? :)

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote:
> Hi Carl,
>
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Carl Eastlund <carl.eastlund at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On a mailing list, you never know what's graded and what's not...
>
> Right, thanks for the reminder.
>
> I am used to talking to folks who are doing HtDP on "nights and
> weekends", in other words, school is not their "day job" :).
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Grant
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