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Post #2575173

2026-03-05 01:42 UTC

@jeremysiek@types.pl @krismicinski@types.pl I'm moving all of my classes to required code walks. Has the nice side effect of the fact that once you convince your students that the code walk grade doesn't suffer when you find a bug during it, it often turns into a design discussion and talking about debugging strategies. I think the students also feel like their hard work is more appreciated after they actually get to chat with faculty about it. Has worked wonderfully in undergrad compilers and grad distributed systems. Hard to scale past 40 students though

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  • @lindsey@recurse.social 2026-03-05 06:42

    @csgordon@discuss.systems @jeremysiek@types.pl @krismicinski@types.pl Yeah, I tried to do this in my PL course with ~150 students, and it was a massive logistical headache and left me and all the course staff exhausted. I would love to do it, but it's not feasible with the enrollments we have.

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