| Faculty: | SCHOOL OF COMPUTING | Academic Year: | 2011/2012 |
| Department: | COMPUTER SCIENCE | Semester: | 1 |
| Module: | SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ON EVOLVING PLATFORMS - CS3216 | ||
| Note: | Feedback on module in general | ||
| Qn | Items Evaluated | Module Avg Score | Nos Responded |
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| 1 | Overall opinion of the module. | 4.667 | 21 |
| 2 | Grade likely to get for the module. | 4.65 | 20 |
| 3 | Difficulty level of the module. | 4.381 | 21 |
QN\SCORE | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
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Qn 1: Overall opinion of the module. | Excellent | Good | Satisfactory | Unsatisfactory | Poor |
Qn 2: Grade likely to get for the module. | A | B | C | D | F |
Qn 3: Difficulty level of the module. | Very Difficult | Difficult | Average | Easy | Very Easy |
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ITEM\SCORE | | | Excellent | Good | Satisfactory | Unsatisfactory | Poor |
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Module | | | 15 (71.43%) | 5 (23.81%) | 1 (4.76%) | 0 (.00%) | 0 (.00%) |
Module at Same Level (Dept) | | | 66 (19.76%) | 144 (43.11%) | 89 (26.65%) | 18 (5.39%) | 17 (5.09%) |
Module at Same Level (Fac) | | | 147 (21.24%) | 319 (46.10%) | 171 (24.71%) | 36 (5.20%) | 19 (2.75%) |
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ITEM\SCORE | | | A | B | C | D | F |
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Module | | | 16 (80.00%) | 3 (15.00%) | 0 (.00%) | 0 (.00%) | 1 (5.00%) |
Module at Same Level (Dept) | | | 119 (36.62%) | 145 (44.62%) | 48 (14.77%) | 9 (2.77%) | 4 (1.23%) |
Module at Same Level (Fac) | | | 216 (32.00%) | 361 (53.48%) | 83 (12.30%) | 11 (1.63%) | 4 (.59%) |
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ITEM\SCORE | | | Very Difficult | Difficult | Average | Easy | Very Easy |
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Module | | | 9 (42.86%) | 11 (52.38%) | 1 (4.76%) | 0 (.00%) | 0 (.00%) |
Module at Same Level (Dept) | | | 60 (18.02%) | 146 (43.84%) | 115 (34.53%) | 9 (2.70%) | 3 (.90%) |
Module at Same Level (Fac) | | | 113 (16.40%) | 276 (40.06%) | 272 (39.48%) | 22 (3.19%) | 6 (.87%) |
| Q1. | Please comment on the strengths and weaknesses of the module, and suggest possible improvements. |
| 1. | Dear dear Prof, You should have dropped CS1101S and focused on CS3216. You didn't have enough time with CS3216 class! ;'( Just kidding! I completely understand that it's been the hardest semester for you in NUS. Really wish that you had had more time with us, to talk about life or just random inspiring things! |
| 2. | Sad it might be gone |
| 3. | Too good |
| 4. | This is definitely an awesome module!!! NUS should consider keep this module although Prof Ben is leaving. |
| 5. | Strengths - A module like no other. Combines people from diverse background with different talents. Hope the spirit of this module will live on despite the discontinuation of it. Really challenged to do something cool and for the first time had the range of skills to actually pull it off. Weaknesses - Not really any weaknesses. Maybe more like limitations that we couldnt spend time to present and critique the first 2 ideas. Would be interested to see a wider discussion on all the ideas. |
| 6. | This being the last instance of the module, let's speak no ill of the dead. But good god almighty this module is hard; and difficult; and taxing; and high-stress; and difficult, and you must hear me when I tell you as to the difficulty of this module: it is not merely 'very difficult'; it has completely destroyed me, and has taken in more effort than all my four other modules, and my CCA, and my social life combined, and more than that it has disrupted the other aspects (other modules, CCA, Social life) such that for long swathes of the semester I felt like I was a CS3216 student first, second, third and fourth; and everything else (human being, need to live/sleep/eat, study other modules etc) fifth or sixth down the line. This module is extremely difficult. I cannot reiterate this enough. And yet I strongly, strongly advise this module be repeated the next year. I reserve the highest of praise for the man, the leader who would motivate his students to die for him, and die for his module, and sacrifice all other modules to the exclusion of this one module; for this man, forty over students happily died (albeit, complaining all the way) three times for him. If you do not offer him tenureship, this will be a grave error. And some other university, possibly in America, possibly A Rival Competing University, will have a lecturer to rival Pausch and Jobs as visionary leaders and teachers. But yes, once again; this module is so difficult, after this module I have no fears about any other module in the rest of my academic life at NUS. |
| 7. | It's great that this module is open to all students and not only to computing students. It's pretty packed with different assignments but NO PAIN NO GAIN! I enjoyed the module very much and i learnt a lot. |
| 8. | Allows one to have the opportunity to work with different type of people, and work on ideas that tie in with business and technology. |
| 9. | Workload wise is heavy but it opens a channel for us to develop and explore our ideas. |
| 10. | The openness to work on your own ideas instead of being restricted to a topic. |
| 11. | Strengths: Bringing real projects to school, inspiring students with external speaker Weaknesses: Constrained by 13 weeks of school term. |
| 12. | The module is really fun, and stressed at the same time. However, the important thing is I have gained a lot of things after taking this module (just like any other module from prof Ben :) ) |