Tardy A-class notes

[drscott]

Second intro night was Tuesday night. Attendance was up -- there were three squares -- but not quite as many prospective studenten. allanh reviewed it well here, but I had a student's-point-of-view comment to add.

So far we've covered Cross Trail Thru, Triple Trade, Triple Scoot, Quarter Thru, and Grand Follow Your Neighbor. Nothing terribly hard, though I find the nonlocal knowledge needed to do Triple Trade unfortunate. I had a big problem with Quarter Thru, because Michael Levy gave the definition only once, and it was rushed enough (he tends to be fast and nervous) that I didn't catch it well enough to repeat it to myself. Since he never repeated it in full again, I found myself feeling clueless through about 10 calls of it. Callers: repeat the damn definition! Especially when it's as confusing as 'Those who can Cast Off by 1/4 by the Right, then those who can Trade by the Left." I look forward to having the teaching order in advance so I can previsualize. I hate feeling incompetent.

Real class starts next week -- still time to join...

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[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

..which suggests an interesting CogSci project, which I'm not sure anyone has done: go through the call list to determine which low-level cognitive skills are required to do it; group the calls by skills required; consider defining the levels by cogntive skills used in each, then move anomalous calls. As an exercise it might shed some useful light.