I'm a Berkeley prof. Startup experience led me to update my 1,500 person class (opens in new tab)

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6 pointsjoshhug2y ago2 comments

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I'm curious to hear feedback, especially:

1. Given the limited amount of scarce student time I want to spend on this, do pull requests / GitHub actions tests (provided for them) / code reviews seem like the right team processes to introduce?

2. Each student's work is independent of every other student's. Is there some way to have them working on different pieces of the same problem, or having the students solutions interact in some deeper way than random selection in a lottery? On my first post of this idea, a user named taftster imagined taking inspiration from Factorio in some way, with students each contributing some piece of a large system.

3. Is there a way we could naturally allow pull requests for the contest code or maybe even the README that establishes how to review pull requests? I'm thinking a bit about Fluxx or Nomic here.

goldenjm2y ago

On 2, you could recreate Axelrod's classic prisoner's dilemma tournament from 1980. Here's a short writeup about it: https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/soco/project...

Another game you could try is the "guess 2/3 of the average" game.

You could make the assignment one game like these, or put a few together.

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