Last week, I gave the students in my grad algorithms class an am-I-ready-for-this? quiz. I promised to report back, and I’m already a little late on that. The average for the quiz was ~ 70% – I was hoping for a higher average, given how easy the quiz was (in my opinion). Two students did [...]
October 1, 2010
Experiments in teaching: am-I-ready-for-this quiz
I am teaching ‘the grad algorithms course’ for the second time. It is the first time I am teaching a course for the second time and am excited at finally having the opportunity to fix my previous mistakes. ’The grad algorithms course’ is required for all CS Ph.D. students in our department and a prerequisite [...]
October 5, 2009
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What theory should every non-theory Ph.D. student know?
I’ve survived my first week of teaching graduate algorithms and data structures. “Survived” really isn’t the right word. I’ve had a lot of fun and the students in the class are bright and interactive, which makes a 50 minute lecture go by in a flash. Since the time is going by so quickly, I realize [...]