@JudyOakley The norms take a long time to get used to, but for the most part, the people concerned with how good a question is (this is assuming I've understood your question) are acting as custodians for that grand library.
There are rules, there are norms, and there are underlying principles that can override the norms in the instance of particular questions and answers.
I also think that when we have a HNQ some of the drive by visitors are overly harsh since the people at SO seem to be more driven by testosterone than some others. It isn't trolling really, at not usually, but some come close to the line. It isn't so bad when it is quieter here. But we do need the traffic.
Moreover, some of the "visitors" don't really understand teaching and think of it as just something like spoken wikipedia - content delivery and everyone for him/herself.
I guess I just need to be thicker-skinned. So I played in the sandbox but I don't feel like it's right at all - too listy, too much opinion (see, I'm getting the jargon!) and I don't really know what I'm asking myself, or if it's even useful. Maybe you ladies and gentlemen can help. But I'm off for tonight. Up at 5 tomorrow to see my babies. TTYL.
@JudyOakley At the moment, according to the stats on Area 51, we have only 162 avid users, users with more than 200 rep. out of 4,515 total registered users. You've been here 20 days and already you're ranked #64 all-time for the site. (#7 for the month). You are in the top 4% overall and top 12% of the avid users.
Subject: How should CS students maintain/build a portfolio of their coding skills as they progress through school?
Many high schools, mine included, are encouraging, if not requiring, students to build an online portfolio showcasing their achievements and growth through their high school career ...
@JudyOakley I have to say that the regulars here are a lot of the draw, IMO. They're a pretty amazing bunch. The drive-by folks are a mix, but the regulars are pretty consistently great people.
I am teaching destructors in C++ and would like to give the students an interesting homework exercise that requires them to build a class with destructor.
In previous years, the homework were something like "write a linked list, but do not use the classes in the STL". I do not like this - I tell...
The k question is still on the HNQ list, but it's no longer causing a lot of activity. It's mostly just slowing other questions from arriving on the list :P
The easiest times to achieve HNQ status are presumably weekday mornings from 8-11am (east coast) at moments when there are no other active HNQs form our site.
It's still first thing in the morning somewhere at work in the US, there is a full workday ahead to keep traction going, and there are no headwinds from other HNQs
Oh, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday are the highest traffic days on the SE network broadly speaking
Friday and Monday are both still good, but not as good.
The notion of "Study Guide" was unknown to me before moving to the US (I don't think I was ever given one during my studies in France).
I believe that the goal of a study guide is three-fold:
To list all the topic that will be on the exam,
To provide some hints to the students as to how to rev...
I'm preparing some exercises to introduce software developers who have no experience with Scheme to the language. Part of the exercises are simple things like:
Create a function that squares a number passed to it
I've been sort of debating whether or not I should include answers to the exercise...
I am getting two errors in the program.
1.Member identifier expected
2.parameter 'obj2' is never used.
The notion of "Study Guide" was unknown to me before moving to the US (I don't think I was ever given one during my studies in France).
I believe that the goal of a study guide is three-fold:
To list all the topic that will be on the exam,
To provide some hints to the students as to how to rev...
I'm preparing some exercises to introduce software developers who have no experience with Scheme to the language. Part of the exercises are simple things like:
Create a function that squares a number passed to it
I've been sort of debating whether or not I should include answers to the exercise...
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