Not only through pure knowledge but through learning skills and an increased ability to truly engage myself with the material. I took a calculus and a physics course in high school, but this class gives me a whole different view of both those subjects. I could never really make the connection between the two even though I knew they were related in some way. In physics last year we were just given equations and all we had to do was to rearrange them and put numbers in. In this class I actually learn where the equations were coming from and how to derive some of them.
Participants begin work on their own mini-projects.
The goal of the mini-projects is for participants to have time to consider one implementation issue in detail. Guest speakers will include Dr. Gertrud Kraut and Prof. Mark Leuschner who taught the course but were not developers, students who were in the class, and Dr. Karen Marrongelle who helped to assess the course. Participants will stay in the UNH dorms and eat at the dining halls. On Thursday evening we will all go to a restaurant with a bit of local charm. All costs are picked up by the MAA, except for transportation to the workshop.