09/12/2006
A student writes: Dear Prof. Patt, I had finished problem set 1 on Thursday, and have noticed that an increasing number of problems from it are being postponed, or will appear modified later. If I already completed problems 1-10 correctly, should I turn them all in on Wednesday? Should I make a copy, so that I won't have to re-do them when they are re-assigned? Thank you, <name withheld to protect one who doesn't want to do a problem twice> Glad to see that you are ahead of where we are in class. Great! I hope you keep it up. We will not grade the two problems that we postponed. So, if you do not want to redo them for the second problem set, then I guess you should copy and save them. By the way, it is not that unusual that we do not cover topics as quickly as I hope, so this will probably not be the last time we postpone some of the problems on a problem set. My objective in 306 is to have everyone learn everything by the end of the semester, and sometimes that means going over some topics more carefully than I had originally anticipated. Good luck with the rest of the course. Yale Patt