Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hpcc01!hpcuhb!hpcllla!hpclisp!hpclscu!shankar From: shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: OOD/C++ Training -- A Question of Scheduling Message-ID: <58170023@hpclscu.HP.COM> Date: 4 Jun 90 21:33:44 GMT References: Organization: Hewlett-Packard Calif. Language Lab Lines: 25 > My question: has anyone experienced one of these marathon teachathons? Oh, all the time. > Do you end up *retaining* anything? I'm willing to propose this kind > of schedule, but I've found that it takes time for people to turn their > thinking around to the OO way of doing things (as Gary Craig, > craig@snow-white.ece.syr.edu, says it, they need time to `decompress'). The point you mention is valid, but here's the other side of the coin: For people with busy 10-hour schedules, long gaps between classes can be counter-productive, because so much else has happened during the week that it is hard to switch contexts back to the classroom. Having the class as one long 8-hr-per-day orgy has the benefit of keeping the students focused on the subject matter. Maybe a happy compromise would be to split the course into two sections: an introduction, with a follow-up session to reinforce the lessons from the first session. In between, the students can be given long assignments, or encouraged to apply the material from the first session in their day-to-day work. ----- Shankar Unni E-Mail: Hewlett-Packard California Language Lab. Internet: shankar@hpda.hp.com