Lecturer Response to myExperience Survey

Overall

Thanks for the great scores!

Free-form comments

More guest lectures!

I'm happy to see that students really enjoyed the lectures that were not directly related to the project. In the past the sentiment seemed more on the side of “don't bother me with stuff I don't need to know for the project”, yet the lecturers were the same and the content was only incrementally upgraded. But we'll keep our eyes open for other intersting stuff to bring in.

Course should be 12 UoC / over two terms / trimesters suck!

This is a recurring theme. I appreciate the sentiment, but experience has shown that using up two elective slots will prevent too many good students from taking the course. We just have to accept that it's a high-workload, high-reward course.

Should have AOS Part B

It's called doing Taste of Research / COMP3901 / Honours Thesis with TS, which is the natural next step, and far less painful ;-)

Would be good to get into groups from Day 1

That's organisationally hard to do, as not everyone is networked enough to have a partner lined up. Also, we think it's important that everyone individually goes through the whole setup and build process, which is the main motivation for M0.

Having said that, we can try to get over M0 faster, but that also depends on when the lectures are scheduled, which is outside our control.

Release git repos and odroids in Week 0

Yes, sorry, we had some issues to fight with this year. We generally aim to have everything ready by Week 0, but there were unforeseen problems...

Final

Thanks for the feedback, and your participation in the course!

Gernot