CS21A was a lot of fun. When I said, "As this is your first
class, I will give you candy," they cheered - I guess they like
playing along with that grade school thing. ;) Dr. Sarmenta
edited my history draft and made it much cleaner. Today I
actually used Microsoft Powerpoint in class. I think I did okay
- we switched to Microsoft Word for the spaghetti example. I
should have saved it onto a diskette, though, to make it easier
to upload. We had a bit of a problem with some computers'
Internet connections - they couldn't access
http://richip.dhs.org/~sachac/cs21a/ from Windows XP, but
Windows 98 worked fine. FUTURE: Move course URL to first page of
slides. Doing the spaghetti example as discussion instead of
seatwork seems like a very good idea. No one really knew how to
cook spaghetti, so I turned that into class discussion instead,
and the students contributed almost all the steps. We started
with - prepare the pasta - prepare the saurce - mix - add cheese
- eat Last summer, I modified the recipe onscreen, m