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Hitting the High Notes
- edw519 18y agoAn oldie but one of my top 10 favorite internet essays. Whenever a prospect questions my rates, I give them a copy of this.
- shawndrost 18y agoMy favorite part here is the idea of using class projects as a controlled (if imperfect) measure of programmer productivity. However, am I missing something or is there a contradiction here: "No points are deducted for bad style or lateness." "...the penalties for being late are significant."
- eru 18y agoPerhaps non-point penalties?
- Tichy 18y agoOne thing seems to be missing from the data: where it always the same students who were faster on the assignments? Could be that student A good lucky with assignment 1 and student B got lucky with assignment 2, and they messed up the other assignment in turn. Another possibility could be that the long hour students did all the actual hard work and the fast students simply got to copy their stuff. At least at my university, that is how most students dealt with the maths assignments.