Instructor Recap

[moorepants]

Homework

• Book questions are pretty good
• Book questions don't go into as much depth as the midterm
• Most are "go look up formula and use that"
• Homework may not apply to the derivation in lecture
• Some questions hid the concept it wanted to get across
• The problem that you had to dtermein if coloumb or viscous from time tract but not much difference
• Wheel rolling on grond didn't quite connect to base excitation
• Some of the book solutions didn't have detailed answers
• homework length was pretty consistent
• first problem in the last homework was (partianl fraction expansion) was a pain
• make sure that it is required to computation on the howework if you want them to
• most did everything by hand on the last homework
• the electronic grading was ok but not great
• the pdf's just don't come out well
• at the beginning make sure to know what to submit
• have a policy for the ta to know what to do if they don't follow
• canvas was ok, not many comments (speedgrader ended up being pretty nice)
• kenny used the comments: comment tool specifically (a lot easier)
• the comment: would show some text and the loss of points

Notebooks

• thought the in class notebooks were fun

• would groups be better than pairs

• make sure to deal direclty th epeople without laptops so we don't loose them

• make pairs switch

• check into better classrooms for group work

• hard for instructor ot get into isle

• live coding or prepared notebook: liked living coding

• an our a week with a little bit extra is reasoble

• did they learn the vibrations concepts in the computatoin/?

• the indecing the eigenvector bogged them down

• think they got the intergrating eoms numerically

• got lost on the "what is a function?"

• the fillin gthe 3d array was tough

• we should turn more office hours into python sessions (make this happen more explicitly)

• if they have the prebuilt notebook they leass liley to ask questions in calssl (conceptula bakgourN) ... if this was the case it may be less need for the office hour python session

• more time at the beginnin gto get every at the same programming level (maybe two lectures)

• it was a good idea to do it in python: relevant experience to have for the students, more modern that is a real proramming language that can be used in other contexts

• have more time and be prepared ahead of time

• as soon as i posted the homework, kenny would try to do the homework before his office hours

• if i posted homework late then that screwed up kenny's schedule

• it would be helpful to know more about the exam eariier

• having more stuff done ahead of time