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From: bmg@mck-csc.UUCP (Bernard M. Gunther)
Newsgroups: net.cse
Subject: Under rewarded projects (grades)
Message-ID: <133@mck-csc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 11:11:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: mck-csc.133
Posted: Thu Sep 26 11:11:36 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Sep-85 06:15:59 EDT
Organization: McKinsey & Company, Cambridge Systems Center
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I was Lab TAing a software engineeering course a few years ago with a grade
breakdown which went something like this:

	4 Minor Projects - 	40%
	Final Project Design	10%
	       Implementation	10%
	Midterm			15%
	Final			25%

The final project was a 5 week 3 person implementation of a text editor
or a spreadsheet or whatever project they had that year.  The implementation
of the final project tended to take ~100+ hours per person over 3 weeks.
This was the most rewarding part of the course - working in a team to get
something accomplished, and yet it just wasn't worth it because of the
disasterous effects if had on all the other courses you were taking.  Isn't
this a little wrong.  A 3 hour exam should not count more than 100 hours of
difficult work.difficult work.

Bernie Gunther


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