Course evaluation

April 2012

Final course evaluation meeting for (Chalmers TDA342 / GU DIT260)

The final evaluation meeting will be in April. The report should (according to the central guidelines) contain the following:
  1. Summarising judgment.
  2. Goal fulfilment (cmp. course to learning outcomes).
  3. Organisation and pedagogy.
  4. Study climate.
  5. Desirable changes for next year.

February 2012

Mid-course evaluation meeting for (Chalmers TDA342 / GU DIT260)

Advanced Functional Programming (7.5 hec), Spring 2012

The evaluation meeting took place on Monday 2012-02-13.

Participants: Patrik Jansson (lecturer and examiner) and five student representatives: J Kallus, P Reimers, N Tall, L Tidstam, N Ulvinge.

Lectures: really good - nice mix of slides, white-board and "live coding". Screen-cast recording would be appreciated - Patrik will experiment with it (check with Dave Sands who uses it effectively).

Labs: difficult tasks, sometimes hard to know what to do, but that gives them a "real life" flavour. Recommended reading (like for the lectures) would be much appreciated. Patrik will try to do that (by next year - it is too late now).

Grading: The final grade of the course is a based on a weighted average of the lab grade and the exam grade (provided that both are at least "Pass"). The weights are the number of credits: 4.5cr (60%) for the labs and 3cr (40%) for the exam. The three lab assignments are weighted roughly 3 to 5 to 4 - thus more weight for the second assignment. Patrik has made this description available on the course homepage / course memo.

Prerequisites: It feels like there is a gap between the previous FP course and AFP. A suggestion is to make the previous course a little more demanding (not to make AFP less so). This does not apply to the D1 FP course, but to the third-year version.

General comments: Well organised, demanding course with good lectures and interesting labs.

January 2012

The first course evaluation meeting for (Chalmers TDA342 / GU DIT260)

Advanced Functional Programming (7.5 hec), Spring 2012 The first meeting took place on Monday 2012-01-16, in connection with the first lecture. The course representatives were confirmed (J Kallus, N Tall, L Tidstam, P Reimers, N Ulvinge), the process described and the mid-course evaluation meeting was booked for Monday 2012-02-13 (we meet at 12.00 in the queue for "Café Linsen").

April 2011

Final course evaluation meeting for the 2011 instance of (Chalmers TDA342 / GU DIT260)

The final evaluation meeting was in April, notes are in the document repository and linked from the 2010/2011 instance of the course in the student portal.

February 2011

Course evaluation meeting for (Chalmers TDA342 / GU DIT260)

Advanced Functional Programming (7.5 hec), Spring 2011 The evaluation meeting took place on Friday 2011-02-11.

1 Introduction round

2 Changes in the course since last year

3 Study climate (communication, work load, supervision).

4 Problematic course items; can resources be used better?

The graphics in the lab could be done with Gtk or even just generate the SVG.

5 Course-specific questions in questionnaire; other material for final meeting

Notes by Patrik Jansson, 2011-02-11 For reference:

Responsibilities of the student representatives

As a student representative it is your responsibility to When the course evaluation has been completed, each student representative will get a voucher, valid for 200 kronor at Cremona