Dave Bakhash wrote:
> What I might do as well is to let some people know at NYU, so
> students there who might know a little about CL, but don't have
> course offerings can come too. We can start organizing some
> volutary instructional sessions, etc. I tought a course in CL at
> BU, voluntarily (the CS department donated a room to me for a couple
> of hours once a week), and it was successful with over 20 students,
> starting with about 30.
It would be nice if there were a teaching guide/cookbook so that if
you were willing to volunteer your time at a local school but didn't
have any prior Lisp teaching experience you wouldn't also have to
spend significant amount of time (re)inventing/developing/preparing
a lesson plan, materials, pacing, exercises, etc. but could just
use/adapt the plan/materials/tips/etc. in the guide/cookbook.
I am thinking about all the down-to-earth details like...
[target audience: undergrad (CS/EE but not necessarily), or
maybe already working C or VBasic programmer]
what book to use if any...Graham ACL?
make copies of the 400+ page ACL for each student?
other readings/handouts
how many sessions...frequency...lesson plan...what to do
in each session besides "OK class, read Chapter x and do
exercises y-z" and then just following up on
their understanding of x and answers to y-z
just go through ACL chapters in sequence?
additional exercises beyond those in ACL (to fill in the
gaps...the few ACL exercises seem to go from easy to
harder very quickly)
how to handle the range in abilities...how to find the
right pace between that of the fastest student and that
of the slowest student
formally test/score or just informal/unscored exercises
other tips, etc.
Pratibha <··········@yahoo.com> wrote:
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| It would be nice if there were a teaching guide/cookbook so that if
| you were willing to volunteer your time at a local school but didn't
| have any prior Lisp teaching experience you wouldn't also have to
| spend significant amount of time (re)inventing/developing/preparing
| a lesson plan, materials, pacing, exercises, etc. but could just
| use/adapt the plan/materials/tips/etc. in the guide/cookbook.
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You mean like <URL:http://www.teach-scheme.org/Workshops/#materials>
does for Scheme? [I referred to the TeachScheme! site, rather than
just the HtDP book site, because of their significant experience in
training high-school teachers (~200 of them!) to teach Scheme.]
A similar curriculum for Common Lisp would be *great*, but it would
also be a *lot* of effort...
-Rob
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