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Q: Tools to teach remotely

Julien RouséI'm thinking about teaching remotely and I was wondering if anybody got ideas for tools that might help in this situation? It would be for beginner level students, individual lesson, no group session. I was thinking maybe tools for pair-programming or screen sharing to help me see what they do? ...

 
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Jeff Atwood on November 23, 2010

Over the last 2.5 years, we’ve identified a few problematic classes of questions that tend to get asked on our sites. Many of these are documented in our standard set of close reasons: exact duplicate, off-topic, subjective and argumentative, not a real question, and too localized.

However, as we launched the great Super User experiment, a new, previously unknown class of problematic questions emerged — the shopping recommendation.

That is, on Super User we began encountering questions like: …

 
 
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Q: Should programming assignments be graded based on results from unit tests or based on the similarity to the correct implementation?

blu3r4yImagine students in a course on algorithms & data structures, which are given homework assignments to implement things like trees, hash sets, sorting algorithms, etc. Due to the high number of students per semester and limited resources, grading is heavily assisted by automatic unit tests. The T...

 

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