Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 22:50:33 -1000
To: byuh100@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: I am in your cs201 class

   Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 21:39:50 -0700 (PDT)
   From: ewrt ewrt <byuh100@yahoo.com>

I have considered your email carefully.  There are parts I probably do
not understand at this time.  I will reply to the parts that I do
think I understand.

   I think I can give you some explanations to your questions that you
   as the professor can’t see from your prospective.

This is very helpful to me.

   If my judgment is accurate, ... you teach us in that we are
   dependent upon the need of the lab to help us develop our own
   thinking to create our own programs and not just copy from what you
   show us.

Yes.  This is true.

   You have very well written instructions to help us learn it, but we
   have no example whatsoever of what CGI looks like inside,

There are three or four CGI programming labs that are graded by
GradeBot, and everyone has done them.  But there must be still a
missing link.

I went back to my 6-page CGI handout and looked through it carefully.
You are right.  There was no complete CGI program in that handout.  I
was able to add more steps in answer to your point.  I added another
page of material, mostly focusing on this shortcoming.  Thank you for
bringing it to my attention.

I think students have a great responsibility to ask a question if
there is something they do not understand.  You have shown great care
in writing your email to me.  This is a good example of you "asking
the question."  The other alternative is hard for me to think about:
can I lead you through every step, no matter how small?  I cannot do
this because I cannot tell when the steps are small enough.  This is
where you must help me.

When we started into the mysql unit, I spend an hour getting everyone
up to the point of creating a table and inserting data into it.  I
should have done the same thing with CGI.  It would probably help.  I
will think more about this.  Maybe it is not too late.

Thank you for taking time to share your concerns and frustrations with
me.  I hope that we can resolve these problems to make the class
better for everyone.

Bro Colton