Programming mid-terms
- by Dervin Thunk
Hello.
Unfortunately, (written) midterms are necessary in most university CS programs in the world. They tell us how well our students (and ourselves as teachers) are doing. Needless to say, designing midterms for a C Programming Language course is not easy. For instance, when we do program for real, we have a myriad of information at our disposal: websites, books, cheat sheets to "remember" the syntax and so on.
My question is this: did you find any way, during your years at school or training, where you said: ok, this midterm evaluation of my programming skills is tough, but fair.
For instance: I found "find 5 problems with this code"-type questions hard but interesting and telling.
Are there any others?
Thanks.
