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+# 2024 January
+
+ * Teacher: Richel
+ * Day 4: Python I and Python II
+
+These are the anonymous evaluation results that clearly apply to me.
+
+![](python_1.png)
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+![](python_2.png)
+
+Note that I am the only instructor that got a 2 out of 5.
+
+
+## What did you like the most about the course?
+
+> This fulfilled all of my requirements as a beginner to Uppmax and basic 
+> coding in BASH. I liked
+> the hands-on nature of the activities, especially with Richel. 
+> Although it was intense and tiring,
+> it forced effective learning
+
+This is great to hear! This was the whole idea: we know that learners
+prefer a passive lecture over active teaching, even though they learn less.
+
+## What did you like the least about the course?
+
+> At the Python section, i didn't like that we skipped some of the solutions. 
+> After trying out and
+> failing i would like to see at least how to solve it, 
+> and we lost a lot of time on some of the
+> easier exercises.
+
+I agree with the learner that at the end of the day, I started skipping things.
+I did so purposefully, yet I did not expect this was problematic enough to
+end up on an evaluation.
+
+> Python scripts part
+
+Too bad that there is no reason here...
+
+## How do you think we could improve the course (on e.g. topics covered, materials, exercises, course structure, length, announcement, registration, etc.)?
+
+> more paired up exercises
+
+I was the only instructor that did this. I am happy at least one learner liked it :-)
+
+## Do you have any additional comments or suggestions?
+
+> I liked the course overall, however Python may need its own course, 
+> because it couldn't cover
+> much because of short time, and the exercises skipped 
+> from basic stuff to intermediate pretty
+> quick at least for me as a person who didn't work with python before.
+
+I wonder where that quick skip from basic to intermediate happened.
+I'd guess at file IO, which indeed is a jump from book chapter 3 to chapter 13.
+Next time, I should invest some time in bridging this gap.
+
+
+> For the Python session in the last day, we got a lot of practice time 
+> but time was much behind
+> the schedule. I was also stuck with some errors. 
+> I suggest intead of only two students in a
+> break room, assign more students in a room and the questions 
+> are likely be solved. Teacher
+> show also provide correct answers after practice.
+
+This is a new insight, that if a course is learner-centered (i.e.
+the pace is determined by the learners) and the schedule is not completed,
+this may give a negative effect. I will reshape the schedule to help
+learners get the opposite effect.
+
+I am unsure about using more than two learners: in the end, learners that have
+finished an exercise were sent to help, hence rooms would fill up to three or
+four learners. 
+
+Indeed, here too, in the end I cut corners in not showing the answers on 
+purpose. It is a more sensitive matter than I thought :-)