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Algorithms, Lp1 HT-10, TIN092 / DIT600

Your own effort

1. How many hours per week did you spend on this course?*

At most 15 hours/week»		4		12%
Around 20 hours/week»		12		36%
Around 25 hours/week»		10		30%
Around 30 hours/week»		7		21%
At least 35 hours/week»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 2.6 (bidrar till totalt genomsnitt/jämförelseindex)

2. How large part of the teaching offered did you attend?*

0%»		1		3%
25%»		2		6%
50%»		7		21%
75%»		12		36%
100%»		11		33%

Genomsnitt: 3.9 (bidrar till totalt genomsnitt/jämförelseindex)

Genomsnitt totalt för detta stycke: 3.25

Goals and goal fulfilment

3. How understandable are the course goals?*

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I have not seen/read the goals until now.»		10		30%
The goals are difficult to understand»		0		0%
The goals give some guidance, but could be clearer»		10		30%
The goals clearly describe what I am supposed to learn»		13		39%

Genomsnitt: 2.78

- ...but I have not seen goals until now.» (The goals clearly describe what I am supposed to learn)

4. Are the goals reasonable considering your background and the number of credits?

No, the goals are set too low»		0		0%
Yes, the goals seem reasonable»		25		89%
No, the goals are set too high»		3		10%

Genomsnitt: 2.1

5. Did the examination assess whether you have reached the goals?

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No, not at all»		0		0%
To some extent»		4		12%
Yes, definitely»		12		36%
I don"t know/have not been examined yet»		14		42%

- We haven"t had the exam yet.» ()
- Very nice exercises from almost all the different algorithm categories. And not so extremely difficult as Erland"s in May. :-)» (Yes, definitely)
- Though it was quite hard and I would have needed at least one more hour to even try to solve all the problems on the exam.» (Yes, definitely)
- I find the exam being quite difficult» (Yes, definitely)

Teaching and course administration

6. To what extent has the teaching been of help for your learning?

Small extent»		1		3%
To some extent»		14		42%
Large extent»		15		45%
Great extent»		3		9%

Genomsnitt: 2.6

- All of the lectures were good. The exercise sessions (both with Erland and with Willard) were very helpful, but in the lectures I would have preferred less focus on the specific problems presented in the book and more on the design principles of each paradigm.» (To some extent)
- I could not attend all courses because of overlapping and because it"s the second time I take the course.» (To some extent)
- i experienced the exercise sessions to be a lot better than the lectures. the lectures sometimes seemed to be off topic, it can be relevant to know what algorithms can be used for and how much money one can earn from solving for example an np-complete algorithm in polynomial time.. but to much time was spent on explaining these things. » (To some extent)
- Solution the the weekly exercises should be available on homepage (at least those solved on blackboard), esp. from the firs part of the course when E.H. was the exercise responsible. E.H while being an excellent lecturer, has terrible hand writing style and is somewhat sloppy with notation. » (Large extent)
- Very good lectures. It"s nice to have a lecturer that makes sure you learn, for a change!» (Great extent)
- Both lecture and exercises (with was more or less also lecture)» (Great extent)
- It was essential» (Great extent)

7. To what extent has the course literature and other material been of help for your learning?

Small extent»		3		9%
Some extent»		10		30%
Large extent»		14		42%
Great extent»		6		18%

Genomsnitt: 2.69

- It was a good complement to the lectures.» (Some extent)
- The course book although has a good coverage over useful topics, however is very informal hence is big in number of pages and difficult to grasp.» (Some extent)
- Old Complaint: The book doesn"t have solution to the exercises! It means that one can not check if ones solution is correct. Of course if the book had the answers, the teachers would have to come up with their own assignments... » (Large extent)
- the bonusassignments and labs helped alot.» (Large extent)
- the book is a bit fussy at times, especially when it comes to calculating the complexity. if it would be possible to complement how to do that with some handouts or similar the next time the course is given i think that would be great» (Large extent)
- Although I still have problems with the book, it is the best course literature that I"ve had so far.» (Great extent)
- Vero good course book.» (Great extent)
- The course slides are really great. And the book anyway.» (Great extent)

8. How well did the course administration, web page, handouts etc work?

Very badly»		5		15%
Rather badly»		6		18%
Rather well»		16		48%
Very well»		6		18%

Genomsnitt: 2.69

- Some "not mandatory" exercises simply vanished. This means we got 2 less bonus points for the exam than people usually do. Also, information generally has been bad, one lecture disappeared without warning due to Kårdagarna.» (Very badly)
- Please dived the page in to subpages with a mainmenu.» (Very badly)
- Almost no news updates even though there where a lot of changes on the webpage that you had to "discover" by yourself. The weekly problem sets were almost always published to late (which the responsible teacher won"t admit, everyone makes mistakes but owe up and learn from them instead!). The deadlines where not moved, sometimes giving us only half the number of days to complete these tasks. The problem sets took at least one week to long to correct, and some where skipped, giving the students less of a chance (we could not get al the bonus points for the exam) to pass the course than students taking previous runs of the course.» (Very badly)
- better to schedule fewer non compulsary assignments than to cancel them later» (Rather badly)
- A simple notation in news when website has been updated would be nice.» (Rather well)
- quick replies via email which was great. sometimes the info on the course page was contradictory or not up to date. » (Rather well)
- still the old slides in year 2009,can"t find new updated» (Rather well)

Study climate

9. How were the opportunities for asking questions and getting help?

Very poor»		1		3%
Rather poor»		8		24%
Rather good»		13		39%
Very good»		5		15%
I did not seek help»		6		18%

Genomsnitt: 3.21

- There was some help available for labs via mail, but it was useless since it takes too much time to write down an understandable question» (Very poor)
- Questions over email were answered very quickly, but that does not make up for a complete lack of instructor-led lab sessions (and having to book an appointment or visit the instructor"s office is not at all the same thing).» (Rather poor)
- It would have been nice to have assistants on the labs, like the maths courses are structured.» (Rather poor)
- I would prefer a booked room where we could work on the problem sets and have an oppertunity to ask for guidence. » (Rather poor)
- handlers had trouble understanding the questions» (Rather poor)
- Could always ask your own questions but never listen to others questions (this is both good and bad)» (Rather good)
- good with the consultation hours and possibility to email questions.» (Rather good)

10. How well has cooperation between you and your fellow students worked?

Very poorly»		0		0%
Rather poorly»		4		12%
Rather well»		10		30%
Very well»		15		45%
I did not seek coopeation»		4		12%

Genomsnitt: 3.57

- It"s a lot more difficult to cooperate with other students when there are no instructor-led lab sessions (which gives most students much less incentive to show up), but I did cooperate somewhat with friends from earlier.» (Rather poorly)
- Since there where no scheduled sessions there where few occations where cooparations would occure.» (Rather poorly)
- Only worked in group with the programming assignment» (Rather well)
- We could have worked more together to solve the problem sets.» (Rather well)
- I like that you can cooperate and discuss the exercises, but that you need to write them up on your own.» (Very well)

Summarizing questions

11. What is your general impression of the course?

Poor»		3		9%
Fair»		0		0%
Adequate»		10		30%
Good»		16		48%
Excellent»		4		12%

Genomsnitt: 3.54

- ourse to spare myself the frustration. When the actual corrections of the homework turned out to be less strict than the impression that was given, they became worthwhile. It"s difficult to say anything about the exam before I"ve taken it, but in a course with a pass rate as low as 30% there"s a risk that the exam focuses too much on coming up with clever algorithms in the spur of the moment (six algorithms in four hours) rather than on finding out whether the student has learnt the concepts of the algorithm paradigms and complexity analysis. Two or three "clever" problems can be enough even for an ambitious student to fail, because four hours is not enough time to guarantee coming up with the right "trick" for those problems.» (Poor)
- I was extremely frustrated with the course after the first two weeks when the teacher called us out saying no one had handed in a good solution to the first week"s assignments, despite the fact that the book didn"t give us any detailed information on complexity analysis and the teacher could not direct us to other resources. Saying that we should have learnt that during the Datastructures course just doesn"t cut it, since we obviously weren"t taught about that. I even considered dropping out of the course to spare myself the frustration. When the actual corrections of the homework turned out to be less strict than the impression that was given, they became worthwhile. It"s difficult to say anything about the exam before I"ve taken it, but in a course with a pass rate as low as 30% there"s a risk that the exam focuses too much on coming up with clever algorithms in the spur of the moment (six algorithms in four hours) rather than on finding out whether the student has learnt the concepts of the algorithm paradigms and complexity analysis. Two or three "clever" problems can be enough even for an ambitious student to fail, because four hours is not enough time to guarantee coming up with the right "trick" for those problems.» (Poor) (den här kommentaren har blivit redigerad i efterhand)
- There should be more information about the exercises. How we should solve them. The leader of the exercises said that out of the 1/3 of the students he had graded. None answered the first problem set correctly. In my opinion this was because we didn"t know how to answer the first problem set from the information we were given before the time to hand it in. (It was not allowed to do the handwaving that was given as solution in the book)» (Adequate)
- lectures weren"t great, the content of the course was great, book was ok, wish there were more exercise sessions» (Adequate)
- good course but handlers and supervision could use improvement» (Adequate)
- Good course, but not entirely my cup of tea.» (Adequate)
- Would have been excellent if not for practical issues» (Good)
- Excellent lectures by D.D. Lecturer presents problems and solutions in consistent and interesting (sometimes funny) way. Some lectures were like watching a good movie. Less time, however should be spent on such trivial topics as: "Google/Yahoo/CompanyX uses algorithms in their programs" Yes, we know that already,) The exercises were challenging but good. E.H. did good job on exercise sessions, interesting and fun to attend. I really liked his reluctance to give away answers too soon! W.R. had a different style, strict, mathematical notation and slower pace, notes published on homepage - very good! » (Good)
- Seems like a "must have"-course for my program. Teaches very good and usable techniques for programming.» (Good)
- This course is a must have.» (Excellent)

12. What should definitely be preserved to next year?

13. What should definitely be changed to next year?

14. Additional comments

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