Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 00:45:02 -0500 (EST)
From: Adrian German 
To: Fulya Erdinc, Sara Teresa Martin, Chris Colvard, Andrew J Hinz 
Subject: Re: grades for the week

Andy, Fulya, Sara and Chris:

Tomorrow in lab please ask them to solve 15.11 in about an hour.
Help them as much as you can. They truly need to be able to have
it done by the end of the hour. While you help/discuss with them
build an understanding of how well they're doing so far. Finishing
15.11 is part of the lab grade for tomorrow as detailed below.

The lab that they're supposed to have worked out and have finished
for tomorrow is the flag quiz. They can transform the program the way
I showed them in class or they can develop the program from scratch,
again as show in class. Let me know if you need to refer to those notes
and can't find them. Having this done is also part of the lab grade.

Chris, Fulya and Sara sent me suggestions. No problem was selected by
more than one person. Andy didn't reply with a suggestion. He may have
not had the time to read my note or (as I know him) he might have thought
of asking his students tomorrow to work in pairs, one or two per problem,
thus covering all problems. Let's just focus on 15.11 tomorrow.

A very important thing is to spend 5 minutes in lab and agree with your
students on where they will turn in their assignments. Last week in labs
I spoke to them and it turns out some are submitting their programs in
the wrong place. So it's important to emphasize: BL CSCI A202 14742 is
the lecture account and that's where we want all things posted. You and
I don't have access to their lab sections in OnCourse (we could obtain
that access but we didn't want to) whereas they get lab sections accounts
by default in OnCourse. So if that's where they submit their programs we
can't see those. My advice to you after using this program for a semester
and a half is this: tell them they should upload stuff in the dropbox,
then when all is great and clean the final submission should be in the
assignments dropbox section where only one submission is accepted. We
won't go into returning assignments and re-submitting like last semester
because it's too time consuming and virtually impossible near the deadline
so they should user their regular dropbox until the end when they should
make one last submission in the assignments section of 14742. You should,
of course, check both OnCourse areas when grading.

So here are the grading guidelines for tomorrow's lab:

a) 30 points for the transformation of the flag quiz program
b) 20 points for a reasonable (not necessarily clean) GUI in 15.11
c) 30 for using one listener and for the logic in it
d) 10 points for creativity (like stopping the game after ten misses)
e) 10 points for finishing what looks like a complete game in lab

(If they don't have the flag quiz finished tell them you will withhold
the points and will add them back to the grade when they show it to you).

Tell them to submit their programs in OnCourse, like for an exam. This
is our practice. We also need to have a record of their work.

In class tomorrow I will thoroughly discuss Tutorial 17. They will have
to bring it (written in our style) to class (that is, to lab) and they'll
be given another one-hour practice exercise (like in the guidelines above
only the number of potential problems will increase).

You can start grading Homework Four. Please remember to send the grades as
soon as you can, like Fri night, for example. Either way thanks a lot for
your great help this semester, I think you're a great group of AIs and I'm
sure students appreciate your work a lot as well.

Please let me know if you need help or have any questions.

... Adrian