January 2008 - Posts
Tutorial 2: (quick, personal summary) In Tutorial 2, my aims were (1) to get/force students to simulate an algorithm themselves (learning via doing; understanding via more doing; and mastering through even more understanding), (2) discuss/explain the
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Tutorial 1: (quick, personal summary) In Tutorial 1, my aim was to illustrate the difficulty associated with coming up with a "good" section of step-by-step instructions to achieve a task, any task. Multiple issues arise: what level of detail (abstraction),
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Lecture 2: (quick, personal summary) In lecture 2, we finished rest of Lecture 1 introductory stuffs. Next covered motivation and introduction to algorithms, algorithms from real life, abstraction (in the chocolate-mousse-recipe example), the recurring
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Lecture 1: (quick, personal summary) In lecture 1, we covered course outline, aims and philosophy. Of course, also other nitty-gritty of the CA components, exams and stuffs. Also talked about the amazing computer, talked about similarity and difference
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I pondered the above for some time now. I have used Discussion Forum (DF)before, but somehow not many students liked DF. Mostly the CS/Engg types use DF and usually to get last-minute helps/tips and the like. Like "Help, I need a project partner, like
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Today, while killing time waiting for car servicing at Tan Chong, I logged in (they have wireless access at Tan Chong) and, out of the blue, I thought about how to teach Turing Machines better. I remembered the software Kara by JN (Prof. Jurg Nievergelt
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This is my test of using IVLE blogs. I got some help from my grad-student, Max, with setting up the module blog. There was an interesting phenomena (that I know well) at play here -- before Max told me about it, for some wierd reason, I could not find
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