Re: revising a tw course

[Anthony Davey <ant -at- ant-davey -dot- com>]

Joe,

I have to go with Dick an Goober's comments.  For a beginners' course in 
TW, these are all things that should come much later, if at all.  While 
a resume and cover letter are 'basics', they are stuff that should come 
naturally to a TW once they are trained to do the job.

My first thought was to add something on the psychology of reading 
and/or lingusitics.  At which point it occurred to me that you don't 
tell us what you're teaching, so we can't dream up a project on it.  So 
what are you teaching?  If you're getting your students to write 
'documentation' in the first semester you are making the assumption that 
'everybody can (already) write'. Which we know isn't so, or we wouldn't 
be here.  So maybe it's time to review the whole syllabus, not just the 
projects.

I don't see the relevance of software sophisitication to your course; 
nor would I assume that first semester TW students, espacially those 
from other majors, are aware of design principles.  What do you know 
about these students that we don't?  (A: Almost everything...)

Regards,
Ant

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