Muddy Cards

Thank you all for the very nice messages and the appreciation you gave to our work.
Thanks also for the very valuable suggestions pointing to possible improvements.

One very important aspect is the synchronization between lectures and the homework.
In the future we will try to schedule lectures as early as possible in the period and also to present
some topics which are more relevant for the homework in the first lectures.

Concerning the workload and the relation between exam and homework, we are also planning some
changes starting from the next year. The number of total points will increase to three and we will probably
separate exam and homework giving separate points for each. With this scenario, the homework
will become slightly larger than is now and there will also be some seminars for support.
Another alternative could be to replace the homework with some lab, but this is still under discussion.

There were some suggestions to publish the answers to previous exams. In my opinion, this could possibly
encourage some kind of "mechanical" learning based on past exams. Anyway, if you look over the lecture
notes, you will quite quickly find out what the expected answers are.

Thank you for your interest,

Petru

9-May-2001 12:22