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From: duncan@geppetto.ctt.bellcore.com (Scott Duncan)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Student preparedness
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Date: 4 Jan 89 11:00:07 GMT
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In article <1828@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>
>A more popular scheme is called "partial lectures."  The instructor
>prepares copious and confusing notes, then gives a lecture that only
>manages to cover half of what is in the notes.  However, the student
>is responsible at exam-time for "all of the material," and so spends
>valuable time reading what is no doubt not understandable without
>comment from the professor.  Manic students (I spent a semester and a
>summer as one, so I know) will add library time investigating the
>mysteries of the notes.  The professor, of course, expects all students
>in _his_ course to be of the manic type.

In "the real world" (of computer software development) this whole process is
often known as developing specifications and getting requirements!  Sounds
like great training for aspiring programmers :-).


Speaking only for myself, of course, I am...
Scott P. Duncan (duncan@ctt.bellcore.com OR ...!bellcore!ctt!duncan)
                (Bellcore, 444 Hoes Lane  RRC 1H-210, Piscataway, NJ  08854)
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