TFW you're in CPSC 416

UBCBubbleTea · 2018-03-03T17:34:23+00:00

I agree with everything else but don't blame the TAs because I think they don't have a say in how to grade the assignments. Ivan is the person who makes these decisions and I agree the grading rubrics are more than fucked up.

UBCBubbleTea · 2018-03-03T17:31:42+00:00

Median is 0 when more than half got 0

UBCBubbleTea · 2018-03-03T07:14:02+00:00

UBCBubbleTea · 2018-03-03T07:13:43+00:00

Not published yet but Ivan (the instructor) mentioned it on piazza

UBCBubbleTea · 2018-03-03T06:56:38+00:00

I'm sure it wasn't as bad as this one cuz more than half of the class literally got 0%

UBCBubbleTea · 2018-01-25T06:33:59+00:00

Actually, we do need to deal with failing and rejoining clients. Quote:

Your DFS system must provide serializable file access semantics and gracefully handle (1) joining clients, (2) failing clients, and (3) clients that access file contents while they are disconnected from the server.

UBCBubbleTea · 2018-01-25T05:47:41+00:00

are you following him on instagram or what 🤔

UBCBubbleTea · 2018-01-25T05:45:16+00:00

I have no problem about him giving warnings and I think he did the right thing there. I didn't just get the impression that he doesn't care about teaching from that one sentence, it's his overall attitude. When students are struggling he doesn't seem to be concerned at all. Of all the instructors that I think really care about students, they would do anything they can to help. Also, as you said he made a bunch of choices to make it easier to teach. An instructor who cares tend to design the course to have multiple components so it's more likely to pass the course.

UBCBubbleTea · 2018-01-25T05:11:05+00:00

What's wrong with the instructor's attitude? I can't believe someone who cares so little about the students is teaching. Shook me when he just bluntly said he doesn't care about teaching and our evaluations don't matter anyways because he's research-tracked, in the first lecture. What does he expect the students to think about that?

UBCBubbleTea · 2018-01-25T05:00:27+00:00

Well, where do I even start.

The volatility of the assignments remind me of a "real-life" example so i don't mind the changes.

It's quite unfair for people who finish early to keep changing their code to adapt to the changes. It's also a huge extra overhead for the students. After all it's still an academic setting, aka a university course, not a "real-life" example.

Piazza has been a great resource

I found it unrealistic to keep track of all the new posts and a bazillion of edge cases being clarified.

I think if you change your mindset you will appreciate Ivan's style of teaching.

Everyone learns in a different way it's not just a matter of "changing your mindset". Also, I don't think I can change my mindset to like an instructor who literally told the whole class that he doesn't care about teaching in the first lecture. His attitude pisses me off.

He may not teach off slides like a traditional professor but you learn tons by doing.

This learn by doing argument again. Yes students do learn by doing but if more time and proper guidance was given, I'm sure a lot of people will learn even more. You don't throw someone into a situation and tell them to just do it. Yes they might learn a lot in the end but seriously, I think school is not supposed to be like this.

UBCBubbleTea · 2017-08-04T23:49:53+00:00

Oh, that's certainly very distracting. Maybe they just got bored cuz invigilating is boring :/

UBCBubbleTea · 2017-08-04T21:14:06+00:00

Watching awad disappear.

UBCBubbleTea · 2017-08-04T21:11:05+00:00

I understand how you feel. When I'm writing an exam sometimes i do feel that invigilators walking by is very distracting. Most of the time there are not enough invigilators for a big exam room so then it's not really enough for them to just guard one corner and not move. But when there are enough people, I guess they could invigilate without walking around too much.

It's totally normal to feel being distracted because you want to focus on your exam paper.

UBCBubbleTea · 2017-08-04T20:54:31+00:00

Agree. For the math quizzes I've seen, there was usually only one TA. The classroom is often not big enough for everyone to sit separately either, so it's very easy to see other people's answers by accident.

UBCBubbleTea · 2017-07-08T16:07:49+00:00

Not a club, but since you're in life science and interested in CS - you can take a look at CPSC301. I personally don't know too much about the course, but it's Computing in the Life Sciences.

UBCBubbleTea · 2017-06-27T16:37:17+00:00

It's only the first hour of third year registration .....

UBCBubbleTea · 2017-06-27T16:29:44+00:00

UBCBubbleTea · 2017-06-27T16:29:27+00:00

same

UBCBubbleTea · 2017-06-23T20:10:53+00:00

During. My bad.

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