Assessment for review

[valentineap]

I have drafted tomorrow's in-class assessment. I'd be most grateful if you could take a look and let me know what you think:

• Is it reasonably achievable
• Is it long enough (It is worth 20% of the mark, but I don't want anyone to struggle to complete it within the 2-hour session).
• Does it cover what we've seen in the course so far? (I am only assuming exercises 1-4).

[charlesll]

I'm not sure about Task 2. You may get people struggling just because of the math concept... I know it is simple, but people struggle at first last year with the math parts. SO it depends how they are doing this year...

[valentineap]

@charlesll Yeah, I was a bit worried about that too. Any ideas for a suitable replacement? I'm struggling a bit to come up with things that are complex enough to be interesting but not too complex...

Or potentially move the gcd() one to be a fourth exercise and add a new second, to help sort the wood from the trees?

[charlesll]

@valentineap I will suggest something with more coding and less math.

Something involving the construction of two functions for instance, with if-else statements and a while loop...

edit: I got a proposition, see pull request #24 492ff93

[rebecca-mcgirr]

@valentineap I agree with @charlesll re task 2, I think moving it to task 4 and replacing task 2 with something a bit easier is a good idea.

[valentineap]

Thanks all. I have taken Charles' Arrhenius problem, slightly simplified, as Task 2, and then put the GCD as Task 4. I intend to tell them that Task 4 is a bit harder, and not to worry if they don't know what to do.