Course evaluation

April 2014

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

2014-04-28 12:00 - 13:00 in the room EDIT-8103.

You're welcome to bring your lunch to the meeting.

How to find EDIT-8103: It is on the top floor of the EDIT-building: enter from Rännvägen 6B, take the elevator to floor 6, walk north through half of the corridor until you reach the stairs, follow them up one floor and turn left. EDIT-8103 is next to the CSE dept. lunch room.)

Notes by Peter Damaschke

ATTENDING:

Patrik Jansson (course responsible)
Peter Damaschke (program director CSALL)
Karl Bristav, Daniel Eddeland, Daniel Oom (student representatives)

SUMMARY

Excellent course with an overall score of 4.7.
The course is considered hard yet adequate.

GOALS

Most students were aware of the learning outcomes.

REALIZATION

Good comments on the lectures, assignments, and opportunities to get help.
The lab PMs are long, but also clear about the requirements for grades.

STUDY CLIMATE

The work of the teaching team was much appreciated.

CHANGES

More time can be devoted to the labs and the first lectures. (Functional
programming is difficult for students being not yet so familiar with the
concept.)
The 3rd lab is important for the teaching goals (modification of existing
code), but more guidance for choosing the package could be given early in
an exercise session.
Expand on QuickCheck.
Explain the group structure of the exercise sessions beforehand.
Modified prerequisites in the course plan?
The Google group should be kept.

February 2014

AFP student representatives 2014: K. Bristav (CID=karlbr), D. Eddeland (danedd), A. Gufler (gufler), F. Levenstam (lfilip), D. Oom (lalti). They can be reached by CID@student.chalmers.se.

The first brief meeting was on Monday 2014-01-27, 15.00-15.15 and the mid-course evaluation meeting was on Thursday 2014-02-06 12.00-12.45. The final evaluation meeting will be in April (prel. 2014-04-28, 12.00-13.00).

Notes from 2014-02-06: Present: Patrik, Bristav, Eddeland, Levenstam, Oom.

Central information: "Being a student representative means that you are responsible for evaluating the course together with the examiner/course responsible and the program board of the program that gives the course. The evaluation process consists of three parts:

  1. The student representatives and the examiner/course responsible are to have two informal meetings during the course. The first one should be in the second study week, the second one after approximately half the course. The first meeting is mostly for you to get acquainted, the second one is for the student representatives to give feedback to the teacher on the progress of the course.
  2. After the course an evaluation questionnaire is sent out. The examiner will get an opportunity to add extra questions to the standard questionnaire.
  3. After the course, in the middle of the next study period, there will be an evaluation meeting where the student representatives and the examiner/course responsible for the course meet the program board of the program who gives the course, discussing the course’s advantages and potential for improvement.
For participating in the final evaluation meeting the student representatives and the study committee representative get a gift certificate of 200 SEK valid at Cremona."

April 2013

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

2013-04-22 12:00 - 13:00 in the room EDIT-8103. The final evaluation meeting notes 2013.

February 2013

AFP student representatives 2013: V Nilsson (CID=vikni), D Olausson (danola), P Crona (cpeter), J Jarmar (@GU).

First brief meeting was on Monday 2013-01-28 at 15.00-15.15 and the mid-course evaluation meeting waw on Monday 2013-02-11 15.00-15.45.

April 2012

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

The final evaluation meeting notes.

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
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