[plt-scheme] Scheme for first year CS classes, good or bad?

From: Prabhakar Ragde (plragde at uwaterloo.ca)
Date: Fri Oct 23 08:45:06 EDT 2009

Matthias Felleisen wrote:

> Not good enough. You need to train students to spot problems.
> 
> We run almost all courses now with code reviews. I started in 1996 with 
> this (then pair programming) and the training has continually improved

Can you describe the logistics of this? What is the class size, and what 
course personnel are involved? I am currently teaching an "advanced" 
class of 45, but our section sizes are now 90-100 in the regular 
classes, with tutorials of 60. --PR



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