Lecture sequence
Woo hoo! It begins!
This is a record of some real and imagined events that occurred during 427 lecture times.
Lecture 1
Lecture 1 happened, and it established that real lectures wouldn't be happening.
The persuivants assembled and the sacred initiation rites were performed.
Much was made of the unconventional nature of the course, with occasional references to wiki pages including:
A threatening stack of books was waved threateningly.
And lo! We became a learning community of peers, and not teacher & students. All peers should now proceed to Account setup and do what they're told. Don't forget to add yourself to Wiki users.
This year, the participants in the course get more choice about how it will run. Specific decisions to be made:
We tried to dream up ways in which OO competence might be assessed. Suggestions included:
- Here's a simple design; what's wrong with it?
- Design a solution to this problem...
- Compare these two designs.
- Explain the Liskov Substitution Principle, (or some such thing).
- Model the room
In the dying minutes we tried the last of the above exercises.
