All holidays, I was anticipating the
start of the Algorithmics class. In my last post, I mentioned that we
were 7 in the class but now we're 8. What happened was that two
students went to the NCSS Summer School and fell in love with
computer science. One of them was already enrolled and the other
decided to join. Now, the number of year elevens has increased to 5,
joining 2 year twelves and me.
Each week, the students complete a series of exercises. They are at different stages in their
transition to "algorithmic thinking" but they're all making
progress. We have solved puzzles and learnt about queues and stacks.
More on these later.
So, what has it been like teaching this
course? The briefest statement I can make is: "It's a lot of
hard work but totally worth it!"
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