Evaluation 2021

[dbosk]

LEQ

• Make the issues that the course addresses in the course more interesting. #78
• Make the challenges more stimulating. #75
• Improve feeling of practice without grading. #79

Best aspect of the course

• You can do it in your own pace.
• Introduction to LaTeX (used in other courses)
• Recorded videos
• Low bar in the beginning
• Good intro to GitHub
• Learning bash/terminal (used in other courses)
• Flexibility for doing the assignments
• Short and contained relevant info
• Lot's of relevant skills
• Worked well digitally

Suggestions for improvement

• Learn Git beyond the interface #86
• Explain more clearly why the course is needed #80
• Tutoring even after the course end #82
• More on collaborating on GitHub #83
• Explain why Ubuntu is useful to know. #84
• Simpler language that doesn't presuppose any knowledge of computers. #85
• The commands are different on different computers. Maybe a document that translates between systems.
• Nothing. The course was one of the best that I've had structure-wise, continue as you do it!

Advice for future students

• Do the assignments, they're useful and not particularly difficult, good for future courses.
• Learn Git properly!
• Save the course for a year when you need the HP to get CSN the next semester :-P
• Do the assignments while there still is tutoring!
• Don't stress to finish the course, you can finish it later. So don't lag behind in the other courses.
• Put a bit more effort on learning LaTeX, you will want to know it later anyway!
• Help each other. Google if stuck. Follow the instructions exactly so that the grading bot finds your work.
• Learn from the information offered, you might have use of it in future courses.
• Keep up with the course, don't ignore it!
• Do the course immediately, don't postpone it!
• If you're going to use KTH computers, take the course!
• Do everything immediately and spend the time to understand the contents, it will help you a lot in the future!

Anything else?

• Make this course a prep course for programming instead, would've been more useful. Connect terminal to programming #76

Specific questions

How did you experience the interactive study material?

• Super great!! More should use this.
• What?
• Didn't use.
• Cumbersome. Hard to use, it felt messy and unclear where the info could be found.
• It was good, but didn't use it much.
• Never asked any question myself, but it was good that others' questions showed up, that answered some of my questions.
• Informative! But some things didn't work.
• OK
• It was good.
• There were questions, but didn't use it particularly much.
• Good to be able to ask questions in the video, makes it easier to show exactly what you're asking about.
• Didn't use it myself, but others' comments/questions and answers helped.
• That was good, one realized quite quickly if one followed or not.
• Never used, but I like the idea. I checked others' questions and those helped.
• It seemed like it was not used much.
• Good.

How would you suggest to develop the interactive study material?

• No idea.
• Have everything live on campus.
• Have lectures/recorded videos more in sync with each other.
• Use different operating systems. Became more work for some to find the commands since they were not in the video.
• Have a collected Q&A field for quick searching.