Here at YorkU we have an asinine policy of forcing students to identify themselves using their phones. It was imposed on us by the division that runs payments for food services, the YUCard office. The silliness leads to contradictory announcements like the ones you regularly hear in the "Sobeys Stadium" exam centre : “Cell phones […]
Incoming engineering and computer science students often ask "which computer should I get?" when preparing for university life. I tackled this a few years ago on Twitter and in my previous blog posts, each year from 2020 onward. The basics remain the same: Laptops are useful tools Macs are fine for most students Windows may be required […]
The following is an example of the files needed to create a working Virtual Programming Lab exercise for Java: vpl_run.sh vpl_evaluate.sh MainClass.java StudentSolution.java TeacherReferenceSolutions.java TheTestClass.java With this you can evaluate one student submission against a single reference solution. Two methods are run: one is the student's method and one is the teacher's method. The output […]