Code Red Summaries
Friday, March 24, 2017
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Ishan
Patel - Senior - 2pm - 6pm - ipatel9237@gmail.com
Code red was quite slow (though not as much as last week). Most of the
people were working on the data structures assignment but very few asked
questions because they were almost done, and generally knew what was going
on. I think after last assignment they either started early, or just found
this assignment easier. The one person I did help was in 214 which was
just some light C debugging.
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Andre
Periera - Senior - 1pm to 4pm - andreper@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
I had questions regarding the Interval Tree project. Specifically regarding
the final method that needed to be implemented, which used recursion under
specific conditions. The general trend appeared to revolve around not
understanding how to translate from a pseudo code algorithm into Java code.
Something else that I noticed was students nto understanding the assignment
itself--and I can see why. The assignment description gives examples of what
a method does, but the reader is left to their own devices to determine
where to start. This is especially true with the skeleton code.
I think one takeaway from this particular assignment is that
the students should be told the assignment's purpose: apart from more
practice using recursion and trees, the students will also be given a
small glimpse towards what it would be like doing this for a living. Being
given skeleton/legacy code and then asked to implement a function for it
without much knowledge of the code's architecture; it'll at least help
guide them with any of their questions.