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changeset |      1 | There was a setup error with PEP and the Evasys system, because of
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changeset |      2 | which we were only able to collect 64 responses (out of 400+ eligible
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changeset |      3 | students) this year. The submitted responses indicate that students
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changeset |      4 | were satisfied with the module.  For example more than 64% of the
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changeset |      5 | students found the pace of the lectures about right and more than 81%
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changeset |      6 | of the students found the module intellectually stimulating. Furthermore
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changeset |      7 | 75% od the students we satisfied with the quality of the module, with
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changeset |      8 | another 7.8% expressing a neutral opinion. Of course we will work
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changeset |      9 | hard to maintain, and possibly even improve upon, such a favourable view.
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changeset |     11 | Students generally liked learning new programming languages and 
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changeset |     12 | seeing programming from a different point of view. Also students appreciated
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changeset |     13 | very much the setup of coursework and the automatic feedback via Github
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changeset |     14 | submissions. We will keep this in the future. We will also keep the two
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changeset |     15 | deadlines for the coursework in November and January for the work to
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changeset |     16 | be completed. This seems to have worked well with students (as opposed to
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changeset |     17 | weekly deadlines we had in previous years). We did not hear about any
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changeset |     18 | problems regarding the SGTs and TAs. We will keep the format of weekly
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changeset |     19 | SGTs led by an experienced TA.
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changeset |     21 | Some difficulties arose from the study material. We will go over the
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changeset |     22 | provided material for the next year and implement potential
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changeset |     23 | improvements.  We inherited this year the software behind the testing
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changeset |     24 | framework. We will endeavour to maintain this testing framework, which
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changeset |     25 | is a potpourri of scripts written in Perl, Bash, PhP, Python, as well
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changeset |     26 | as C++ and Scala, of course. |