CS21A, reading exercises, and programming

Posted on January 19th, 2004 by Sacha Chua

We started with programming today. I think that the reading exercises
helped significantly, as the students quickly remembered which
structures to use and how to use them. We should try that in the
future.

Bringing candy to the midterms was also a very good idea.

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