Curriculum Review

Posted on April 15th, 2003 by Sacha Chua

Make schedule from syllabus - a rough estimate of what we did last time.

Two spreadsheets - week

day

topic

subtopics

labs, homework, projects

Note to self: We really need to keep better notes about teaching. I'll have an expected schedule, actual schedule and comments.

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