PGSS 00 course evaluations

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Please answer the following with selfless, brutal honesty. Do not include your name

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  1. What was your previous computer programming background?
    42 Never attempted to program one
    27 Written only short programs
    21 Already done quite a bit
  2. How interesting was the CS core as a whole?

    16

    		 Extremely stimulating

    51

    		 Interesting

    16

    		 About average

    4

    		 Not very interesting

    3

    		 Mostly an excellent opportunity for sleep
  3. How do your rate the amount and quality of what you learned?

    9

    Among the best courses I've even taken

    38

    More than average (for PGSS)

    40

    About average (for PGSS)

    1

    Less than average (for PGSS)

    2

    I learned almost nothing.
  4. Please evaluate the following aspects of the course.

    The following are averaged on a five-point scale from 1 to 5, for both `helpfulness' and `interestingness'.

    aspect

    help

    int

    assignments

    4.05

    3.79

    lecture

    3.70

    3.19

    textbook

    3.54

    2.98

    Web page

    4.01

    3.69

    cluster help

    4.35

    		  

    other TA help

    4.17

    		  
  5. Which of these aspects do you think could use the most work?

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  6. How many hours did you spend on each assignment? How were they?

    I averaged the times together, and averaged the answers on difficulty and interestingness on a five-point scale.

    assignment

    time

    difficult

    interesting

    Pseudocode, Nim

    2.92 hr

    2.99

    3.47

    Paint-Bucket, Panthers

    3.31 hr

    3.16

    3.80

    Big-O, Go Fish

    4.66 hr

    3.67

    4.03
  7. How were the class topics?

    topic

    difficult

    interesting

    programming

    3.17

    3.36

    self-study

    3.35

    3.47

    Internet

    2.89

    3.40

    cryptography

    3.32

    3.61

    game playing

    3.25

    3.64

    big-O

    3.46

    2.87

    algorithms

    3.42

    2.86
  8. What would you like to have covered more? Less?

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  9. What other comments and suggestions do you have?

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