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There was a setup error with PEP and the Evasys system, because of
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which we were only able to collect 64 responses (out of 400+ eligible
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students) this year. The submitted responses indicate that students
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were satisfied with the module.  For example more than 64% of the
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students found the pace of the lectures about right and more than 81%
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of the students found the module intellectually stimulating. Furthermore
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75% od the students we satisfied with the quality of the module, with
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another 7.8% expressing a neutral opinion. Of course we will work
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hard to maintain, and possibly even improve upon, such a favourable view.
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Students generally liked learning new programming languages and 
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seeing programming from a different point of view. Also students appreciated
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very much the setup of coursework and the automatic feedback via Github
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submissions. We will keep this in the future. We will also keep the two
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deadlines for the coursework in November and January for the work to
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be completed. This seems to have worked well with students (as opposed to
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weekly deadlines we had in previous years). We did not hear about any
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problems regarding the SGTs and TAs. We will keep the format of weekly
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SGTs led by an experienced TA.
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Some difficulties arose from the study material. We will go over the
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provided material for the next year and implement potential
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improvements.  We inherited this year the software behind the testing
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framework. We will endeavour to maintain this testing framework, which
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is a potpourri of scripts written in Perl, Bash, PhP, Python, as well
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as C++ and Scala, of course.