The detector is not new, no--but apparently it has been revised since either of us took the class.
Issue: the material is so basic, there are only so many things you can do. I mean, some of the assignments are out of the book, you're given var names to use--if you don't make errors, there shouldn't be that much difference between assignments--particularly for non-CS majors, who usually have no particular background or motivation to be creative.
For all of these reasons, each student is getting an individual hearing from the Deans--I'm just going to be interested to see who, exactly, catches it.
Hmmm...I was at a panel this weekend at DragonCon that struggled to define several things like Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Dark Fantasy. The definition of SF seems to be "involving 'advanced' technology", whereas Fantasy involves magic or events/persons of a magical nature (wizards, elves, people with odd abilities)...yet "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Thence comes the whole field of borderline fantasy/soft SF.
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The detector is not new, no--but apparently it has been revised since either of us took the class.
Issue: the material is so basic, there are only so many things you can do. I mean, some of the assignments are out of the book, you're given var names to use--if you don't make errors, there shouldn't be that much difference between assignments--particularly for non-CS majors, who usually have no particular background or motivation to be creative.
For all of these reasons, each student is getting an individual hearing from the Deans--I'm just going to be interested to see who, exactly, catches it.
Hmmm...I was at a panel this weekend at DragonCon that struggled to define several things like Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Dark Fantasy. The definition of SF seems to be "involving 'advanced' technology", whereas Fantasy involves magic or events/persons of a magical nature (wizards, elves, people with odd abilities)...yet "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Thence comes the whole field of borderline fantasy/soft SF.
Perhaps fantasy is just sufficiently advanced SF?