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Distributed Systems, Lp2 HT10, TDA596 / DIT240

Status: Avslutad
Öppen för svar: 2010-12-07 - 2010-12-17
Antal svar: 19
Procent av deltagarna som svarat: 19%
Kontaktperson: Victoria E»

Your own effort

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

19 svarande

At most 15 hours/week» 10 52%

Around 20 hours/week» 7 36%

Around 25 hours/week» 0 0%

Around 30 hours/week» 1 5%

At least 35 hours/week» 1 5%

Genomsnitt: 1.73 (bidrar till totalt genomsnitt/jämförelseindex)

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

19 svarande

0%» 1 5%

25%» 7 36%

50%» 2 10%

75%» 6 31%

100%» 3 15%

Genomsnitt: 3.15 (bidrar till totalt genomsnitt/jämförelseindex)

Genomsnitt totalt för detta stycke: 2.44

Goals and goal fulfilment

3. How understandable are the course goals?

19 svarande

I have not seen/read the goals» 3 15%

The goals are difficult to understand» 2 10%

The goals give some guidance, but could be clearer» 7 36%

The goals clearly describe what I am supposed to learn» 7 36%

Genomsnitt: 2.94

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

18 svarande

No, the goals are set too low» 3 16%

Yes, the goals seem reasonable» 14 77%

No, the goals are set too high» 1 5%

Genomsnitt: 1.88

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

19 svarande

(på denna fråga var det möjligt att välja flera svarsalternativ)

No, not at all» 1 5%

To some extent» 8 42%

Yes, definitely» 3 15%

I don"t know/have not been examined yet» 6 31%

- from the content of the lectures, seems very low knowledge required.» (I don"t know/have not been examined yet)
- I have not done the exam yet, but the old exams seem to be very good. The labs are also good at testing it.» (Yes, definitely)

Teaching and course administration

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

19 svarande

Small extent» 10 52%

To some extent» 5 26%

Large extent» 4 21%

Great extent» 0 0%

Genomsnitt: 1.68

- Really some of the worse lectures ive attended, sorry to say. Prepare yourself more. If u will examplify on the blackboard, dont improvize it. Prepare.» (Small extent)
- I did not attend the lectures, mostly because the questions asked by students were annoyingly stupid. The lectures were also a bit too simple.» (Small extent)
- Didn"t participate in the lectures.» (Small extent)
- The teaching was VERY poor. His verbal english skills was not good enough to teach at master level.» (Small extent)
- The lectures I went to were not good. The lecturer is unfortunately not good, his English a lot of stuttering and badly pronounced words which made it hard to concentrate and make sense of things.» (Small extent)
- the lecturer is not able to teach the material.he has difficulty with explaining things,specially in English ,his examples just make everyone confused,and no one can understand the concept .» (Small extent)

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

19 svarande

Small extent» 5 26%

Some extent» 8 42%

Large extent» 5 26%

Great extent» 1 5%

Genomsnitt: 2.1

- Didnt buy book.» (Small extent)
- we had to read the lecture notes because the teacher said the book is different from what i teach ,and the lecture notes are just the titles and there is no explanation for them ,not to mention that those few sentences as "explanation" were all wrong grammatically,with so many errors in dictation,vague figures and pictures with no explanation» (Small extent)
- The book i not perfect.» (Some extent)
- The course book did not reflected the course material very good. An improvement would be to give more precise reading instructions in order to avoid reading a lot of material not relevant for the course.» (Some extent)
- The Power Point slides was mostly good.» (Some extent)
- Bought the book but didn"t read it at all. slides were enough and good.» (Some extent)
- The PDFs were very helpful, but I have neither bought nor read the course book.» (Large extent)
- The book was great. This is what I ended up using mostly as study material.» (Large extent)

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

19 svarande

Very badly» 1 5%

Rather badly» 6 31%

Rather well» 7 36%

Very well» 5 26%

Genomsnitt: 2.84

- The lab papers were hard to understand and the lab assistants were either not there at the appointed lab times, or simply incompetent.» (Very badly)
- problems with the test server of the first lab though» (Rather well)
- It"s nothing fancy but it works without problems.» (Very well)

Study climate

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

19 svarande

Very poor» 3 15%

Rather poor» 3 15%

Rather good» 8 42%

Very good» 5 26%

I did not seek help» 0 0%

Genomsnitt: 2.78

- The lab assistants" job was way below accepted level.» (Very poor)
- The lab supervisors showed no interest in helping and it felt like lacked the right knowledge or was unprepared. » (Very poor)
- The lab assistant didn"t have complete knowledge about the labs.» (Rather poor)
- Both assistants were excellent.» (Very good)

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

19 svarande

Very poorly» 0 0%

Rather poorly» 3 15%

Rather well» 7 36%

Very well» 8 42%

I did not seek coopeation» 1 5%

Genomsnitt: 3.36

Summarizing questions

11. What is your general impression of the course?

19 svarande

Poor» 6 31%

Fair» 3 15%

Adequate» 5 26%

Good» 5 26%

Excellent» 0 0%

Genomsnitt: 2.47

- I can"t stand listening to the lecturer. He probably has great knowledge and lots to offer but I just can"t listen to him. And the labs were unnecessary hard. Poorly made lab pm and much time was spent just to figure out how CORBA and Netsim worked instead of understanding the algorithms etc.» (Poor)
- this is one of the main courses for my program and yet it was a disaster.I have no idea what distributed systems are really about ,and have not learned anything useful for my future career.A lecturer should be able to transfer his or her knowledge in the best way to the students,and specially for computer science courses this should be accompanied with good and useful labs and projects that can teach us something.and of course not to mention how bad the lab assistants were.most of the times they were absent i.e. lab session with no one to assist the students and even if they were there they couldn"t answer our questions ,and they were not accord with the lecturer .and they left the lab so early » (Poor)

12. What should definitely be preserved to next year?

- The difficulty level of the labs were perfect since I worked alone. Sven-Arne was also very good at explaining things.»
- In the lecture slides, the mentioned topics should have the references linked in the course homepage »
- The labs.»
- Netsim. This is a great program for developing algorithms in a distributed setting.»
- nothing really »
- the course is long .and time less and very fast.and there is no time extra for studying exam. there should be some day extra for preparation for exam.»

13. What should definitely be changed to next year?

- I think it would be enough with two Netsim labs, but I am not sure what to replace the fourth lab with. One CORBA lab was enough to understand the concepts in my opinion, so the fourth lab would have to be about something different. The difficulty level of the lectures was too low. They focused too much on the basics of networking and repeating stuff, instead of going deeper into the topics.»
- Lecturer and lab pm.»
- The teacher.»
- ld or at the VERY LEAST have a reference to where you can read about it. You can"t rely on that something compulsory can implicitly reference to something non-compulsory like a lecture, the labs have to be stand-alone in that sense. Also one of the lab assistants (I think there were two) Zhang Fu I think his name was. I have no idea how he got the job. Every time we asked him a question, he didn"t know, and had to sit and look through the papers or simply come back to us later with an answer, which even wasn"t correct at all times.»
- everything ,the lecturer ,lab assistants,the types of projects,the course literature ...everything.»
- The labs! Their intent is good, when you finally manage to understand them. A reoccuring thing in the lab assignments is that they lack information about what you"re supposed to do. They usually tell you how to do it, to some extent, but not WHAT. Like the logical clock algorithm with release request. What is a resource? Is it something kept at each node? Is there only one? Can only one node access a resource at any given time? Things like this were not told in the lab paper which they should or at the VERY LEAST have a reference to where you can read about it. You can"t rely on that something compulsory can implicitly reference to something non-compulsory like a lecture, the labs have to be stand-alone in that sense. Also one of the lab assistants (I think there were two) Z.F. I think his name was. I have no idea how he got the job. Every time we asked him a question, he didn"t know, and had to sit and look through the papers or simply come back to us later with an answer, which even wasn"t correct at all times.» (den här kommentaren har blivit redigerad i efterhand)

14. Additional comments

- It"s not much to learn, the exam was easy. It"s just that the learning in this course is far from optimal.»
- An interesting subject, but unfortunately one of the worst courses I"ve taken at Chalmers.»
- people are spending their time when they come to the lectures ,at least someone should supervise what the lecturers are doing to see if they are able to transfer their knowledge.just take a look at lecture videos from Stanford university or MIT university then you can see how much big is the difference between their way of teaching and ours.»
- Teacher: When making examples of algorithms on the blackboard. Start with ONE message and make a very simple example. THEN do a more complex example with many nodes sending many messages or whatever the algorithm should do.»

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Genomsnitt totalt för alla frågor: 2.44
Beräknat jämförelseindex: 0.36

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