4) Essay

Feedback for Lecturer Ben Leong.

1. record tutorials and recitations

2. tends to speed up. other than that he is an amazing and passionate lecturer.

3. cool

4. Better have some structure that can be easily followed for the lecture. I borrowed several python books from library and none of them has a similar structure as ours...

5. He is a perfect and fantastic lecturer. His lectures are effective and interesting. In his lectures, I not only learn coding but also learn the thinking process. Moreover, I like his enthusiasm and talent and creative ideas very much.

6. sometimes the lecture is kinda rush at the end, but overall there's no problem

7. Tutorial questions are too hard :( Nonetheless I really enjoy your lessons. It helped broaden my way of thinking not just in Computer Science and also in other subjects. This module really pushes students to solve problems rather than to blindly copy equations.

8. cool

9. Interesting and motivating Lecturer!

10. Slower pace to students to digest what he taught during lectures.

11. quite okay, but speak too fast, and need elaborate slower and deeper. I will be happy if he can provide some useful tips

12. Very professional lecturer, though lectures are way too fast for students to absorb information, but I guess that can't be helped if the syllabus is so dense.

13. No feedback. Not bad.

14. Some examples in lectures require advanced knowledge of mathematics (e.g. Newton-Raphson method, count change). I feel that some students can't grasp the programming concepts behind them because they're stuck trying to understand the mathematics.

15. Lecturer Ben is very knowledgeable about the stuff he is teaching and can see his passion for teaching and programming.

16. Try to slow down when explaining new concepts(?), other than that, stay cool!!!

17. He sometimes speaks a bit fast, but as long as I keep focused, I am able to catch up most of the time. He is very helpful and can answer our questions almost spontaneously.:)

18. Speak slower

19. Sometimes a bit too fast in lectures. And compared to other modules, I'm doing a lot of work for this mod. But in recitations, his pace is much better.

20. Excellent and enthusiastic professor!

21. He is very approachable and helpful to us. I really appreciate him for his kindness.

22. Very energetic and engaging but sometimes I cannot follow... not sure whether it is because i am too slow or prof. Ben it too fast...

23. Speak slower maybe, although I have already been much more used to his speed than at the very beginning.

24. Can make it...

25. going way too fast. really needs to slow down so that can have a better grasp on the more fundamental concepts, rather than slowing down in the later part of the sem.

26. Interesting, lively and fast

27. funny prof that makes learning more interesting

28. A good and cool lecturer with much interaction with students

29. maybe you could speak slightly slower and give us more time to complete the missions/trainings so that we can slowly think through it!

30. Lecture pace is perhaps a little bit fast to go through everything in depth, but generally fine. Personally I find that I usually don't have enough time to attempt the recitation questions as it is held in the day just after the lecture.

31. teach a lot

32. Good memory.

33. The pitch of the module on problem solving is great. The range of problems and scenarios introduced are inspiring and interesting.

34. Great Lecturer

35. Very good lecturer! enjoy his lectures. explains it quite clearly too

36. I really appreciate your interaction with students during the lecture, and I love the atmosphere in this CS class as you can really arouse my interests and concentration. I do hope the content of each lecture can be reduced a little so that I can comprehend easily. I know that's impossible, though. haha~ Never mind, I'm ready for the coming half semester. Last but not the least, bless me a better results for my final exam!!!! Thx prof Ben~

37. Easily one of the best lecturers around who goes the extra mile to engage students personally on facebook even after office hours.

38. funny and efficient in teaching

39. Prof Leong is clear and effective during lectures and I enjoy reading the interesting articles he posted up on the facebook group as well as the videos during lecture. and I think its really nice of him that he cares to ensure that every student can keep up with the pace of work and consistently revise

40. Nice lecturer

41. Prof Ben is very hardworking and passionate in teaching and I really appreciate that.

42. Able to understand so far.

43. too fast

44. Awesome!

45. Brilliant!

46. Kind of that we are not in the same world!

47. He seems to be an interesting and humorous guy which make the lessons more lively

48. less typo

49. Talk slower

50. He speaks way too fast when he's excited (which is most of the time). But I like his recap at the start of every lecture as it allows me to check if I'm following the lectures well enough.

51. so enthu! so funny

52. too effective

53. I think that the mission and sidequests are time-consuming, resulting in little time left for me tor revise my other modules

54. I think Prof Ben makes lectures more engaging and somehow the assignments(i.e. sidequests ,missions) that he has crafted for the module greatly interest me(despite being extremely challenging).

55. Very fun and engaging,makes the lecture more lively and explain the concepts clearly but might be abit too fast in some of the explanations.

56. He is a passionate man. I enjoy his lecture.

57. Dedicated lecturer but can be a little intimidating.

58. He's doing a great job!! :)

59. Keep up the good work

60. Lecture is too fast sometimes, not the speech. The lecturer goes on to the next topic when I haven't got the current one. QAQ

61. Interesting lecturer and very dedicated to his students! Appreciate all the efforts he has put in to help me during recitations and help sessions!

62. Great lecturer. Makes the lecture fun.

63. Speak slower.

64. interesting. humorous. really impressed that Prof would make time late in the night and early morning on a Saturday to make sure we understand the materials

65. Talk a bit slower, Prof Ben :D

66. However you are one of the best teaching person I have ever seen. :D

67. Interesting and Excellent lecturer

68. I like the little videos he played in each lecture.

69. great lecturer! but if possible, slow down the speed of explaining...

70. Sometimes the speed is too fast.

71. And once being lost at one point, it is hard to catch up for the rest of the lecture>

72. Thank you! Really glad that I have you as my prof !

73. The recitations are really useful and i definitely learnt better after recitation. Learning the order of growth and loops were through recitation because more in depth explanation was done. And it is really good because  it is still fresh from after lecture.

74. Lecturer Ben was very funny, and dedicated to helping his students in improving their understanding.

75. Prof Ben is a really cool prof. He really makes me interested in the module and makes stuff seem simpler and understandable.

76. Very entertaining but speaks a little fast at times

77. Prof Ben's lecture is very cool! but due to the fact that i have no background knowledge, some of the content is hard for me to absorb. It me long time to figure out the format of coding....

78. Dr Ben, i think sometimes you say things as if you think we already know it. Yes it may be for some people, but for a handful of people we may go HUH?

79. Cool ! Best Prof in guiding students to think

80. Lectures are great and I really enjoy it

81. The way of teaching is interesting but a bit too fast.

82. Awesome

83. Maybe you can try to speak more slowly.

84. Excellent professor, full of energy, able to deliver his concepts across in a non "out of the world" manner

85. He is conscientious.

86. Speak slower

87. Many thanks! Your lectures are enthusiastic and interesting.

88. Please slow down the pace and especially highlight some important point specifically and intuitionally, not too much abstract concepts.

89. Good work, and keep it up :)

90. A caring and helpful prof. Although the mod is though, its lucky that the prof is nice and willing to help us in all kinds of ways. He needs to slow down a little during lectures though. >

91. Quite good. But I dont understand some of the things not because his explanations are not clear but the things are too abstract. After doing the things a few times and going for tutorials then things become clearer.

92. Appreciate your level of commitment to helping the students (:

93. Enthusiastic and friendly. However sometimes too fast >

94. Speaker slower and clearer

95. He's cool. His lecture is interesting

96. speak slower. or perhaps i am just too slow to understand

97. I think he can probably include more things during the lecture so that I do not have to spend too much time figuring out how to make certain things work on Coursemology trainings and missions.

98. Super nice compared to all the lecturers i had for other modules!  unlike other modules, i don't feel like sleeping in lectures.. maybe because of his voice? Really helpful and friendly to all students too

99. Hopefully can explain more in depth, rather than touch the concept and go. Cause i find this mod rather time consuming due to the fact that there is one tutorial, one recitation and one lecture each week.  Plus training within 48 hours, and mission deadlines. It will be more helpful if you can explain more in depth, can help to reduce much of the workloads. 

100. Very wonderful teacher, teaches concept very clearly and well.

101. Speaks slower :D

102. Quite cool lecturer, but for me, a non-English native speaker, sometimes I felt that the lecture is a bit fast.

103. Excellent!! But please calm down when you are talking... the speed is so fast...

104. He always concerns about his speaking speed but for me I think it is quite Okay :-)
Sometimes he goes through some of lecture slides too fast and I haven't catch up what do the codes mean. So maybe slow down on switching from slide to slide so that we can have a little bit more time to digest.
Prof Ben cares our feelings towards coding and learning python quite much and can adjust some teaching methods. This is quite good.
Overall he is an excellent lecturer and thanks for prof Ben.

105. Excellent  and I personally like his style of talking and teaching.

106. Approachable, Quite effective

107. I hope he can speak a bit slower.

108. Good pace, detailed explanation

109. Entertaining and interesting lectures delivered. However, I hope more examples can be provided to better illustrate new concepts.

110. Very helpful and patient, though he may rattle off pretty quickly from time to time.

111. Prof Ben is very dedicated and efficient. He tries to make the course more interesting by having it in a game playing manner which i appreciate it. He is very concern with his students and make an effort to arrange extra classes to help students who are in need. He is also very enthusiastic with teaching the course and go all out to deliver his knowledge

112. very nice lecturer, arouse my enthusiasm in coding

113. Please talk slower and in simpler terms.

114. I like the way you conduct your lectures.
Maybe you can try going a bit slower during recitations, especially when you explain the answers.

115. Good:)

116. super funny and knowledgeable about the module.

117. speaks clearly.
lecture slides are are easily understandable.

118. LOVE you always!!!!!! 
you are really really the best teacher I met in NUS till now. 

119. Fine

120. Excellent ! when talking with my friends, I describe him as "kindly and charismatic, but a little crazy young lecturer."

121. Good presenting and organizing of lectures.

122. cool lecturer!

123. slow down the pace

124. Excellent lecturer. However, if the content is easier I will feel better.

125. Please don't think that everyone is as smart as you.

126. I enjoy the lectures.

127. A nice teacher though as he himself said, sometimes he speak to fast :P, but I still can barely keeping up, so overall he's a great teacher for he uses original ways of learning

128. Interesting but talks really fast

129. Speak so fast, but very interesting

130. Cool!

131. A fabulous lecturer! Interesting break-time videos that make me awake!

132. seems really enthusiastic about teaching and creative in the way he conducts his classes

133. very funny

134. Awesome possum

135. I think this module has a ridiculous workload.

136. dear prof you are really talking speaking, and the things are really too abstract I can not understand totally in the lecture

137. Problems designed are good.

138. Good attempt to slow down himself when teaching. 
Dedicated lecturer who tries to understand his students difficulties.

139. a very nice teacher! 
(his speaking speed is a little fast but acceptable)

140. Slower.

141. Helpful and goes out of his way to help the weaker students

142. the concepts are easy to follow but if can slow down the speaking pace a little bit will be even better.

143. Wish there was less homework, but its definitely manageable now.

144. Nice lecturer

145. Has been good and conducting lessons with engagement and creativity. Talk more slowly. And maybe, try not to change (adding ) the lecture slides after lecture.

146. He is quite cool. One example, he tried to remember every student's name. 
That's something you can never imagine in other modules. 
It really makes students feel we are being cared and everyone of us is unique.
It gives me a impression that SOC professors are really good! 

147. Most interesting, intriguing and caring lecturer(I have met so far)!

148. Can you show more examples instead of  plainly explaining the concept.

149. Perfect,very cool

150. His lecture is fast.

151. Prof Ben is really awesome, I suspect I like the module so much because of him hahaha. Although he speaks really quickly, he does try to slow down and many a times he succeeds in doing so. He also repeatedly reinforces important concepts. Thank you Prof Ben for all the extra help sessions!!!

152. Interesting and interactive lectures, but workload is way too much than the other modules.

153. Best lecturer around. Really comprehensive and easy to understand, and interesting.
Speaks perfect Singlish. Powerpack la sir.

154. Prof Ben is a good lecturer in the sense that he's able to articulate very well and keep us engaged in the lecture (even though sometimes the content is just too abstract and I couldn't absorb them straight away). Furthermore his tone makes the lecture more livelier and he himself is a very motivating person.

155. talking toooo faaast

156. Lectures and recitations have been useful and interesting.

157. He's great, humorous and helpful

158. I can't believe the real exam is far more difficult than the previous exam paper of CS1010(even the tough one!!), I hope I can be tested by doing real programming. :)

159. Nice professor.
Content of lectures are heavy and difficult to follow through.

160. Good, very kind in many ways, like giving clear instructions.

161. Perhaps can speak slower and please do not have the mentality that even the basic things that we will know because this is like our 1st time taking programming.

162. :)

163. Vey good teacher with a great passion...

164. Just a bit fast, operates similar to a recursive function where he always says that complex stuff will be understood via future stuff and these stuff will then be explained by "Just look at it"

165. very funny but talks too fast, it is hard to understand and process when the lesson is going on at such a fast speed, especially for people new to programming.

166. He is the most enthusiastic and amazing lecture I have met in NUS so far.

167. Please reduce the pace of the teaching and give us more time to really fully understand the content and more time to complete assignments (missions/trainings) in coursemology.

168. humorous and a very committed teacher

169. He is clear in his explanation but sometimes he speak too fast

170. Good lecturer but maybe because he has been doing programming for years so he don't get our pain when we cannot even understand the basics.

171. be cool and slow down

172. knowledgeable, and very engaging during lectures and recitations.

173. He is a great professor, but the level he taught is a little bit too high that I cannot catch sometimes.

174. Pace a little too fast during recitations.

175. your lecture is quite interesting and attractive.

176. He is a helpful teacher. He makes sure everyone understands whatever he taught before his students leave the class.

177. Entertaining

178. you talk to fast!!!
and when u r explaining concepts, maybe u can explain more in detail...
and in the beginning of the module...i feel the explanation of the concept of programming and way concepts were introduced was not optimized for learning...
as in i would have liked to learn formats and syntax before learning the different ways of programming...so i have a strong base...

179. You are amazing, one of the best lecturers I've ever been taught with!
Next time, please don't try to squish 100+ slides of materials in 90 minutes... Sometimes it just gets too overwhelming for newbies.

180. talks very fast

181. Good, but the pace is a little fast

182. Professor Ben is a very charismatic lecturer.

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4) Essay

Please let us have your feedback on the missions and sidequests for the class.

1. Tedious and time consuming

2. Missions always make me very nervous.

3. Deadlines are too close to one another and preferably missions should not be due when we are still having midterms

4. Sidequests take longer than missions. I expect this is intentional.

5. I hope it can release earlier so that we have more time to work on it.

6. Just fine

7. Some of them are easy but some are quite hard for me to solve

8. the tasks are like puzzles so they're quite interesting. And I like getting to draw stuff.

9. Some of the missions and side quests can be quite time consuming.

10. They are very good for practice

11. Very time-consuming but is justified

12. it is too time consuming... at least for me.

13. Very helpful in understanding some concepts.

14. They are good for us to enhance my programming.

15. they are really well set by the tutors. engaging us with stories. although 6-8 seems to be a little too draggy. as the missions deadlines are spanned over 2 weeks, most of the time i have to re read the previous missions to get a clue about what question is asking. this is time consuming as somethings the code defined in the previous missions are wrong, hence leading to an error carry forward.

16. some are really difficult and require a lot of extra reading...

17. Missions are still doable but side quest is hard.

18. okay, but quite difficult somehow..

19. missions are too many. workload for other mods are starting to really come.

20. becoming harder and harder!

21. They are rather challenging and really makes me think hard.

22. reinforcing the knowledge, which is necessary.

23. They are helpful.

24. The deadline is too short!

25. The mission and sidequests are challenging. But I enjoy attempting them and of course, being able solve the problems.

26. It is quite irritating to stuck on a problem for about a whole day. The missions are really useful in implementing what we have learned but they are quite difficult.

27. Some of the sidequests are too tough.

28. Some quests are not very clearly explained, hence much time is spent interpreting the question.

29. i feel that there is no time for side quests for me because it takes some time for the to understand the concepts and complete the missions...

30. Beginning part, quite difficult. scare me!
Better and better.
I mean, easier and easier.
But all in all, the missions are helpful for students to learn stuff.

31. missions are coming in too often. even before I submitted mission 6, mission 8 is already out.

32. Its really an interesting concept, but it takes up too much time>

33. Siqequest can be very much harder. Which is good, but it will be encouraging if the Sidequest EXP can be equal or closer to the Missions' EXP as it takes as long or if not longer to tackle them.

34. Good. Not so difficult and not so easy. But it would be better if we can have less questions.

35. i had fun doing the assignments, but it is not very fun once one is stuck there for hours. luckily, we can still seek help from the forum =)

36. Generally very helpful for us to be sure of concepts and their usage. However the additional workload is really rather heavy.

37. Missions and sidequests have been fun & interesting! At the same time, it reinforces the concepts we learn during lectures/tutorials/recitations!

38. Too many missions and sidequests that makes the course very competitive, which would be a disadvantage to those who are really slow and having trouble with the basics. Too much time spent for the mission till there is not enough time to complete sidequests (for those who are struggling in this course)

39. some missions are tough and I have to spend many hours on it

40. maybe sidequests should not have deadline? so we can have the option of revisiting it when we have time since it's not compulsory

41. Overall great.

42. Missions and sidequests are good to help us understand the knowledge we learn better. They also taught me many things that I did not know. So far, I think both the quality and quantity of missions and sidequests are appropriate.

43. learn a lot from the missions and side quests! Though there is a gap between what's taught in lecture and what's asked in missions, still a good way to learn

44. Too time consuming

45. It is very difficult and tedious to me. I dont know how to apply what i have learnt on the missions and sidequests. But i agree that missions topic such as turtle and bus codes are a interesting topic and does not seem too still like the usual modules with the usual assignment

46. Good practice for me.

47. missions are okay but sidequest is too hard

48. the time interval between missions and sidequests is relatively too short to buffer....

49. They are very good in helping to apply the knowledge that has been taught in class.

50. Personally I felt that missions and sidequests are too different from tutorial, recitation and exam question.

51. Maybe don't let too many of them come out at once...

52. Their difficulty level is alright so far

53. missions are good. sidequests can have more fun. if everybody can do the sidequest, then there is no meaning to set sidequests.

54. There are some really tough questions.

55. I felt that learning procedural abstraction using pictures is interesting. However, the majority of students are from statistics and business analytics which requires them to analyse data in the future. Python is a good programming tool for data acquisition. I believe that if procedural abstraction were taught in numbers, strings, ADTs, and other common data types more exterior functions could be learned. Yet, I understand that exterior functions are prohibited to facilitate computer thinking skills. More could be taught on sorting, swapping, shifting, reversing, adding, deleting, simply just moving things around in that particular data type. Other than this, I felt everything about CS1010S is really good. One of the best course ever (in my first year). It has some extra stuffs like contests that expects students to be creative. I also felt that perhaps, more algorithms could be taught on top of tree recursion, mutual recursion, euclid GCD algorithm, swapping to convert recursion to iterative. Anyway, we learned complexity because we need to create the most efficient algorithm. Also, I felt that it is good that the typical challenging problems like counting change, tower of hanoi, GCD, fast exponentiation are good as starting points where students can anchor their experience. But perhaps the questions can be set in more interesting ways that use these algorithms more discreetly so that it increases the difficulty. A combination of these would be better too.

56. Missions are quite difficult for me. Sometimes I spend a whole afternoon doing one mission and still fail to get the correct answer. I expect more hints to be given.

57. Don't have time for side quest since I am taking 6 modules this term and 1010s occupies at least one-third of my time >

58. The missions are generally good, but sometimes the instruction given is not so clear. And there is no room for making our own codes, we are mainly following an answer scheme

59. it is really time consuming

60. Challenging but not too difficult

61. They depend a bit too much on consistency and imitation... I cannot find place for creativity and logical thinking.

62. I think the missions about draw pictures are not quite related to the course taught during lectures and recitations.

63. could be more interesting and more easy for us to understand

64. Interesting background information...

65. The missions are sometimes too long and difficult to understand.

66. Deadlines DURING recess and/or reading week can be DEADLY...

67. it is too time consuming

68. Some of the missions are way too tough and the phrasing of the questions are sometimes a little difficult to understand.

69. While it is understandable that computing requires a lot of practicing, I feel that there are way too many missions and sidequests which adds on to time spent on computing (lectures, tutorials, recitations).

70. It is very creative to use such methods to make learning more interesting.

71. it gets tougher and tougher every time and sometimes the question is weird so i don't understand what the question is asking?

72. I think it is useful. Each of them is related different part of this module, so it is good for practice. I just think you can let us try more to practice and give some challenges some time.

73. no idea. all can do except minor mistakes due to carelessness.
But they are somehow irrelevant to the midterm.

74. somehow too many

75. interesting, great experience.

76. I think have a theme for each mission and sidequest does make doing work for interesting. In a way it also help me the potential application of the different codes in real life situation

77. Good concept of having missions and sidequests

78. they are ok, but some of them are too long...

79. They are too time consuming.. And many a times, if i do not get a part wrong, my tutor will just say that it is wrong, but i work it out and still could not get it right. Maybe model ans can be given after all the students have finish the missions alr?

80. Quite fine.

81. Mission due dates are too close apart. Sidequests and missions can get too hard and waste a lot of time.

82. too complex

83. It's just nice :) 
Though sometimes the PDF is a bit too long and looks scary, but it's okay when we actually working through it. 

84. Doable for some missions and side quests.

85. I dunno what im doing most of the time. I will just spam until I got the correct output

86. there are way too many missions and side quests. i understand that this is to help us be consistent, but we have other core modules and most of the time is either spent on doing missions or side quests ( on top of recitations and tutorials) and no time for other modules.

87. Some of the mission deadlines are too short since we need to spend some of our times on other modules too. However, luckily Prof.Ben always delay the deadlines when I am unable to finish on time.

88. Generally I feel it is quite do-able.

89. Sidequests are quite difficult, missions are also difficult but it guides us through, sometimes I feel it takes really long to do the mission or sidequest and I find it very diff from the test

90. More hints given for harder qns

91. nice

92. A fair share of simple as well as challenging questions in missions and sidequests. (Takes me reeeaaallllyyyy long to figure out most of them most of the time, like the E N T I R E day. But I guess that's the whole process of learning, finding out where you're wrong and trying to get to your aim.)

93. The PDF files for the missions/side quests are too wordy. Most of the times, I have to read it again and again just to understand the question and that itself takes up a lot of time.

94. Missions and sidequests are generally good as they allow us to apply and practice the content that we've learnt. But sometimes some of the missions/sidequests are really too difficult, especially for really weak students.

95. The workload is somewhat too much.

96. Although it is not a necessity to do the side quests according to Prof and the Tutors, seeing a lot of ppl level up or attempt, compels me to do and unnecessarily increases my workload. Missions and side quests are getting super hard also.

97. A bit too many for me.... but the difficulty level is okay.

98. Time-consuming

99. Missions and sidequests were somehow unrelated to the subject taught in lectures.

100. Nice.

101. nice works

102. Missions are sometimes set in a way that its quite hard to understand what the tasks wants.. Sidequests are most of the time more difficult than missions. If not for the long time needed for every mission, I think they're effective in allowing us to apply our knowledge into different types of questions.

103. Sidequests are a lot harder than missions

104. The difficulty is ok

105. Too fast

106. The missions and sidequests are great! By solving these questions I am sure to be better at writing codes.

107. Some missions are hard while some are neutral. The hardest one took me more than an afternoon to finish. 
I think the thing is, sometimes the questions are not clear enough and I spent a lot of time on understanding the questions by doing the wrong way once and once again(it can be my own problem as well.)
Side questions can be hard sometimes as well. 

108. I think missions and sidequests are interesting but are somewhat demanding.

109. they are pretty good questions for better understand and use of the concepts

100. No time for side quests
Missions get harder some times...

111. They are very interesting. But sometimes there are some little mistakes in the first version.

112. Missions are good for understanding and help to understand how all the functions work better. It is also really interesting like the turtle and bus stops, pretty interesting.

113. The tutor is patient.

114. Some are vey difficult, some are ok

115. maybe some difficult qn from side quests or missions can be discussed during tut

116. 1)Generally I am quite satisfied with it.
2)But several parts of some missions are not easy to understand(for me and some of my friends)... Like some parts in mission 6,7 ... The good news is ... the examples under the words description help me a lot to understand the questions. 
3)It is somehow stressful  to see that a new mission is released around 00:00am... ... to sleep or to do, it is a question.

117. please give some hint...because for programming, once you have no clue about where goes wrong, it will really cost many hours in finding the error...

118. Fun! But time consuming! as fun as it is, it would be helpful to be notified if if i am on track to earn the 35% out of 35% for coursemology. Maybe i have not been listening attentively, but i was wondering if there is a forecast or guideline for instance: Full marks for all compulsory missions and on time completion of lecture trainings will get u full marks for coursemology. As fun as the side quests are and upping the level is,  there are other modules too. So as of now, to play safe i will always complete all the side quests, because they are challenging and fun too and to ensure that i can possibly score the maximum score for coursemology.

119. (1).After the deadline of every mission and sidequest, it would be nice if the answers can be uploaded to IVLE.
(2). The rest is just fine......

120. I think they are fine.

121. the mission and sidequests generally are ok.. but there is some part which is hard, thus will be stuck at that part for quite long time

122. both of them are doable, but a little time-consuming

123. There should be places that we can ask for help other than the forums. Im not sure how we can go about doing it though..
But maybe more hints could be given for it?

124. While it is a good idea and makes learning fun, it makes us quite stressed about it as well. 
I think many of us are worried whether we are able to level up and so on and so forth.

125. Some missions are really too draggy and long and some sidequests are really hard

126. I think it's too much. The workload is too heavy considering that this is just a level 1000 module. I find that it's hard to focus on my other modules because I'm always rushing to complete missions. I can sometimes spend an entire day or more trying to complete a mission. That's a substantial amount of time taken away from all of my other modules. I think it must not be forgotten that we students have other modules, all of which requires us to invest a considerable amount of effort, to handle too.
I understand that the Coursemology system is used to making learning more fun and motivate students to put in consistent and steady effort. But I feel that the stress that comes with rushing to meet the mission deadlines kills the fun. All that frenzy to make sure that I complete my work before the given deadline (while still trying to manage my other modules), instead of making me look forward to learning more about Python, has decreased my interest in the programme.

127. Workload is tooooooooo much!!

128. some are too hard. some questions are hard to understand

129. A bit difficult

130. i hate the bus stop questions. the instructions are bad. instead of story-telling, maybe more time should be spend in giving better instructions. it does however, improve my understanding of the module.

131. sidequests were really really tough and I took a very long time to solve it except for sidequest 7.1 which I think that Prof is trying to give us free exp for setting the bus stop missions so tough.
Missions, initially were quite manageable till it reaches bus stop saga missions

132. i hate the bus stop questions. the instructions are bad. instead of story-telling, maybe more time should be spend in giving better instructions. it does however, improve my understanding of the module.

133. sidequests were really really tough and I took a very long time to solve it except for sidequest 7.1 which I think that Prof is trying to give us free exp for setting the bus stop missions so tough.
Missions, initially were quite manageable till it reaches bus stop saga missions

134. So far, I have only been doing missions except one side-quest. Missions are still manageable though sometimes they took me quite a long time to ponder upon.

135. Must. Do. All. Sidequests.

136. All the missions and sidequests are helping me improve and deal with complexity, and are of great use.

137. Thinking behind missions and side quests can be explained during class time. Alot of students, given majority lack programming experience, it would greatly help.

138. quite hard to think about some tips to solve certain problems

139. The deadlines are too close. It makes our entire week very gloomy

140. The descriptions are always tooooooo LONG!!! I spent most of my time reading the instructions. Why not just describe it concisely? And the questions for bus stop are really bad! Since there is a long period of time between each mission. When I did mission08, I had to spend half an hour reviewing mission 06 & 07!!!

141. Missions are too difficult, draining my time away to study for other modules

142. Well designed

143. missions by themselves are ok, but everyone will want to do the sidequests to gain an edge, and hence if you do both missions and sidequests all the time, its very time consuming

144. good practice for concepts learnt in lectures.
brilliant idea to help students practice continuously and reinforce concepts which will not be as easily forgotten as compared to other modules.

145. quite interesting actually, it shows how much effort and dedication the course coordinator put into this module. unfortunately i am not able to fully appreciate (due to my insufficient knowledge).

146. The marks deducted are usually not

147. hmmm... they are well-designed to help us digest the material.

148. too much.. 
and please provide model answers for each mission? else it is seriously damn meaningless to our learning 

149. Quite interesting and fun

150. Some of the missions and sidequests are tough and can be confusing (like Mission 6, 7, 8)

151. Cause I want to do all the missions and sidequests as I want to do more work to have a better understanding of python, sometimes it is a little bit heavy.

152. The missions are challenging but fulfilling. They allow me to use my brain and taught me to try my best and not give up when met with difficulties.

153. Some of them quite hard

154. It is very useful for us to practice coding.

155. Some missions are too hard. But it is good that it will guide us step by step.

156. Both are challenging and time-consuming.

157. Ok, but no clear relevance to the lecture

158. It is simply awesome!

159. Sometimes, instructions are vague.

160. Missions sometimes are not really on the same par with the lectures.

161. A bit too rush..

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4) Essay

Please give us your suggestions on how we can improve the missions and side quests. 

1. provide ans after that

2. Reduce some.

3. no comments. i think the tutors are already doing an exemplary job

4. Dont make the missions so complicated...it's very confusing to see too many words

5. maybe make a few missions that strengthen the basic concepts

6. Maybe can reduce some of the narrative words.

7. Maybe can decrease the difficulty.

8. should set up the question more clear

9. Hm... Try to minimize the errors and state the requirement more clearly~

10. they are pretty good already.

11. Maybe can make it easier to apply the skills and knowledge we have learnt in lecture

12. Less workload

13. Maybe can give us a suggested answer.

14. It will definitely help if we had more days to work on every mission and side quests, considering we will have assignments and tests for other modules as well.

15. Keep it to 2 tasks a mission and 1 for each side quests (not too many parts to 1 task)

16. give us a little more time..

17. Although I like the storylines, sometimes they are a bit too long in the mission instructions and it makes it slightly difficult to find the information I want when I refer back to the instruction. Maybe can modify the font a little. :)

18. is it possible to shorten the missions and reduce the numbers of missions and side quests? i think i still  have other subjects but i really spend 70% of the time on CS.

19. Give instructions concisely.

20. Maybe releasing the complete solutions once we submitted the mission will be helpful.

21. missions are good. make the sidequests a little more difficult. half of our people can finish is good.

22. the workload is too heavy.

23. Reduce to 12 or 13 mission?

24. Better explanations of the problem and concept.

25. I expect more hints to be given.

26. Decrease the number of tasks.

27. tag the degree of difficulties and suggested time for complete

28. Just nice.

29. I think the expressions sometimes confuse me a lot. Would you please make the sentences shorter and explain the tasks in more simple and clear ways? Thx a lot!

31. make them easier for a beginner
some of my friend who took cs1010e says theirs is much easier than us.

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5) Essay

Please let us have your comments about the Programming Contests.  

1. Having contests are good but for weaker students, it may demoralise them cause they wouldn't have enough time to complete and thus lesser exp or may add stress to them. I didn't manage to complete all the contests as well.

2. It is quite inspiring. I like it. I think the lenger duration for contests during exams is better.

3. Well received, I guess it is well done

4. great for those who are proficient in computing but not so for those who are not (only good for extra exp!)

5. never participate

6. (1). They are very difficult.
(2). It is good to attempt those side quests.

7. it's nice

8. I do not want to participate in contests generally speaking. It takes a lot of time and missions and side questions are quite enough to kill myself.

9.  Hardly participate even though there's an incentive of 50exp for participation. Most of the time I'm just trying to complete my missions and a couple of sidequests.

10. I guess contests are fun and lets us see the capabilities of the rest of the cohort.

11. Fun participating!

12. Not good enough an incentive...

13. Do not have sufficient time aside of completing Mission,Side Quests and Training

14. attractive, testing creativity

15. Since it is optional, it is fine.

16. It is interesting in the sense that students would want to participate to be the winner to have the badge and a trip to Google office

17. Good.

18. I have not done any as I thought it is difficult to come up with a design. I thought its more targeted at students who are really enthusiastic in computing.. It may serve as an encouragement if sample codes and images are shown.

19. Not necessary.

20. Very challenging

21. have no time to participate in any contests.

22. They require a lot of time, and I am not good at creating my own picture haha, but they are interesting

23. Challenging

24. It's fun.

25. It is more meant for people who are really good at it. People who are weak don't really want to waste that extra time on cs for this

26. They are cool

27. quite okay, but still quite unfair, cos some people are more experienced on programming, so they can surely win.

28. Waste of time.

29. A bit no point

30. the contest is okay as it is not make compulsory

31. There are geniuses.

32. Quite helpful in training me to design the code.

33. Interesting.
I think the function used to draw the picture should be a criterion too. Some functions can be more elegant than others.

34. EXP for participation is no enough!!!!

35. i didnt take part

36. It is interesting

37. They are interesting.

38. Very interesting contests especially when the students have a say in who are the winners.

39. it would be better if it can have more changes.

40. Nothing much. Only for the pros

41. I think its fun. I like the idea

42. Allowing cooperation is good. But sometimes I really don't have so much time to do an excellent one because the workload of my other many modules.

43. I find my classmates are awesome.

44. Ah...quite good.

45. can't see hollusions...

46. Very interesting questions.

47. The contests allow room for creativity to design wonderful pictures.

48. I actually do not support the idea of contests as it is just a platform for people to "show-off" how good they really are, and often these are people who already have a strong grasp of the module, hence this contests concept will only widen the strong-weak exp gap.

49. Fun but a bit waste of time.

50. didn't submit for the first ones (not enough time to finish what I wanted it to be>-

51. I think I don't have time to do the contest, actually.

52. It's so so so brilliant!!!!I do admire my classmates!!!!I always wonder how can they come up with such incredible patterns.

53. Pointless. 

54. A.... Quite difficult to create and need a lot of time...

55. I think there shouldn't be any contests (we don't really have much time to spend on doing the contests)

56. it is hard to get EXP in contest cause not everyone is creative with design... so maybe someone with superb programming skill but can't design well might feel a little peeved...

57. All the pro ppl doing pro stuff there, seriously participate without the thought to win any EXP.

58. No time to do it

59. Interesting and fun but time consuming.

60. Less aesthetics.

61. It is for the people who are really eng(hokkien)....

62. It's good. At least participating in it gives us some EXP and those who win it do deserve it.

63. fun!!!

64. Funny

65. interesting

66. Well, I didn't join any contests, so I don't really have any comments on them

67. I don't  have much time to do that thing:(

68. Great!

69. Maybe in addition to aesthetic theme contests, there can be contests on applied or exotic problem.

70. Beginners have no chance to win the contest...

71. Interesting

72. I think it is good for students to think out of the box and the very good ones to show their skills. But, not exactly attractive for me to really spend time on it as there are also missions and side quests to clear too.

73. i havent been able to attempt any of them because of how much time the missions take

74. Contest is good to showcase what else can be done using python.

75. Contests only gives the better students more EXP while leaving behind the weaker students because how can we join the contest if we have no idea what is going on in the first place?

76. Good!

77. It is fun and new.

78. Sorry I don't know much since I never attempted the Contests.

79. A little cut-throat.

80. I don't like these

81. Interesting ! 

82. Too much competition. Never attempted/Not enough time to finish mission + sidequest + other modules most of the time hahaha

83. no need

84. I really really don't like contests...no more contest please.

85. Most of us don't even know how to start doing the contest so I guess that defeats the purpose.

86. quite redundant for noob students, but nonetheless fun for the good ones.

87. useless for me......

88. It may only works for people who are better in the module (they will be more motivated to do) , for the rest who are slower, after completing the mission and sidequest, it's a bit too much to do another thing because there are still work for other modules... Yes the reward for EXP is good, but have to balance our time for other commitments.

89. an interesting way to get students more interested in the module

90. meaningless. 
somehow a waste of time.
better go learn some data structure or do some calculus.

91. i spend so much time on missions that i dont have time to do contests

92. Contest is so freaking interesting!!!! Really can see all the cool stuff we can do from codes and python.

93. I think the contest is slightly too demanding for weaker students as it takes up additional time. it also creates a disparity between the stronger students and the weaker students after that have won the contest.

94. The results come out too late after submission.

95. contest are cruel. so few people can be awarded the big award. no motivation to do it and make it beautiful. if everybody can be awarded from top to bottom, I would like to spend more time.

96. Only one winner is not exciting...

97. Feels rather pointless and aimless

98. well very interesting
personally, i thought the contest on turtle is not very necessary, since i hardly learn any coding method in it.

99. I think they are only for imba people honestly.

100. helpful

101. interesting to vote and see what cool images can actually be created just from what we have learnt

102. a bit redundant because it is something extra, not necessary in syllabus

103. dont see the point of the contests

104. It's always a fight between the better ones.

105. Very difficult. For weak students

106. quite effective in triggering the interest of the students to be more innovative and think out of the box

107. Contests are interesting and exciting! I also know from the contests that there are so many excellent classmates! Maybe I should work harder...

108. not very creative so contests are not something I do focus on

109. for those with not enough time on their hands, contests are not applicable to them

110. could split contestants into experienced programmers and beginner programmers

111. some people didn't really put in effort and just submitted to get exp.other than that it was quite fun to see the results

112. NICE

113. It's a cool way to learn, but sometimes it is very time consuming with little benefit

114. Interesting

115. Well, as there are some one who have experience on programming, I find there are less chance for us in the Contests.

116. They are more difficult than missions because you need to be creative.

117. I haven't attempted any contest

118. During the poll I saw some indeed creative work so difficult to choose. May be u can assign a theme next time so that the comparison would be easier?

119. Too little of time for the contests when we fully grasp the concept necessary for the contests.

120. It's fun, I get to see what others can come up with.

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6) Essay

Please let us have your comments on the Trainings.  

1. it's nice

2. Trainings are good! More extra practices would be good.

3. Good

4. Training is Okay for me.

5. Really useful!!

6. I hope we can skip questions in trainings to attempt others when we encounter some difficulties.

7. Training are getting more and more difficult, sometimes more difficult than mission.

8. good!

9.  Good to have. But the deadline should be abolished/extended.

10. Trainings' difficulty is just nice.

11. Its really helpful!

12. Good

13. It is cool!

14. Quite useful as when we submit wrong answers it will provides comments.

15. Shouldn't only let us do the next qn after we pass the qns infront, it wastes alot of time when we get stuck at 1 question and cannot progress on to do the rest first

16. Good!

17. the deadline is very tight. it's difficult for us to complete it within 24 hours when the new knowledge has not sinked in yet.

18. Its one of the most useful part of coursemology that I learnt something from, especially he extra trainings.

19. quite good

20. The trainings are great!

21. Trainings are average and it really forces students to revise what they have learnt in lecture

22. Extend deadline for trainings

23. the small piece of coding is very good idea. 
maybe more information and help tips after some times failure trying.

24. I think training should be more closely related to out lecture.

25. The trainings are helpful.

26. Trainings are generally okay.

27. good practice too and given deadline is a day from lecture help to retain concept in memory.

28. Help to revise the content covered in lecture

29. I think if I can jump over the questions I do not know and continue with the rest, it will be better.

30. They are useful, especially when I have some doubts of a certain type of problems.

31. useful

36. I think trainings are a good way for me to consolidate what was taught in the lecture

37. It can help me reinforce the study.

38. Good form of review of what we've learnt in lectures. But probably due date can be much later, probably after recitations. Because most of the time after lectures, I'm only 30% sure of the content, and doing trainings immediately makes me struggle a lot. After recitations, I think I will be able to apply my concepts better and trainings work much more effective in this way.

39. Good!

40. They're good.

41. Helpful for understanding the contents covered during lecture

42. Trainings can help us revise on time. I learnt a lot from trainings on how to apply the knowledge in coding. They are quite helpful.

43. Training is nice, though maybe more explanation can be provided

44. Should have more training

45. The most useful thing on coursemology especially the extra trainings. But xp for extra trainings too little.

46. More trainings so that we can practice basics but training questions should allow us to move on to another question when we're stuck. If not, we ended up using "guess and check" for the answer until we get it right ,and if we're running against the deadline, we might end up getting answer from friends, which defeats the purpose. Trainings should be relax and easy for us to learn and grasp basic concept. Trainings should also detect what mistakes we did so that we can learn from it.

47. may provide hints when fail to solve the problem in several attempts

48. very helpful

49. Quite interesting.

50. Coursemology is too picky... Rejects some correct answers and doesn't tell you why

51. trainings are fine, and helpful in strengthening my knowledge on certain topics. but the 24hour time limit is too short especially if we have other tutorials to prepare for the next few days

52. Very useful

53. Good.

54. Interesting

55. The trainings are not quite easy too, in fact, tougher than recitations. Maybe we can swap the recitations and the trainings? First go for recitations, understand the basics, then do the trainings?

56. please be more and more training beyond or above the basic knowledge can be added in.

57. I like!

58. Good. But some of them are really a jump of what we know. I think more examples must be given for things like not breaking abstraction.

59. Trainings were relatively okay though some parts were really tough and I think should reduce the difficulty level since we just attended the lecture, how could we in such a short lecture being able to solve the tough questions ? I thought like trainings are supposed to test our understanding for the lecture? if that's so, shouldn't set so tough, tough questions are already in missions and side quests

60. It's okay but sometimes when we were stuck in a question we cannot continue to do the next one. It's really annoying. Maybe we should be allowed to do next one, but only get EXP after we successfully finish every single one. 
Also after I finish all the task and submit the last entry, I can see a page which allow me to read through my answers in previous questions. But after I close this window, I cannot get this page again, which means every time I want to refer to my own answers to some questions again, I have to write the last entry and press continue. Is there any way to enable our accessibility to our own training answer?
And...Extra training should have more EXP :D

61. a good test  for basic knowledge

62. Helpful in helping to understand some of the fundamental concepts

63. Great!

64. Trainings are extremely useful in helping us reinforce the basic concepts. Some are even more tedious than expected.

65. Tranings are okay, but deadline for trainings is a little to tight, especially for students like me who have lessons till late at night on Wednesday and Thursday and can't find time to complete it on time for the bonus.

66. That's really helpful.

67. Helpful

68. The training shld allow us to skip the question we are unable to solve and do it later after finishing the rest if not a lot of time is wasted on 1 qns..

69. too simple. but for after-lecture revision and quick-check purposes it's good.

70. Very helpful.

71. Useful to enhance what we have learned. However, it is also very irritating if we stuck and not be able to continue to the rest of the questions. Maybe the hint should be more specific.

72. the trainings is a very useful platform to learn.

73. Could give some hints??

74. okay

75. Sometimes it is annoying that I cannot proceed to the next question because I cannot do the current one.

76. Allow us to skip questions in trainings?

77. trainings can have a clue section, which prompts the student to why their answers are wrong. one good example would be from www.masteringphysics.com

78. Quite good, but sometimes when we make mistakes we are not sure what went wrong. Spending a lot of time figuring out.

79. Training are irritating. If i were not to get the correct answer, i can never move on.

80. Way too rushed for the early bonus.

81. They are really helpful.

82. can I skip to next question if I get stuck and after everything go back to the one?

83. please give at least two days to finish that because some of us have school events such as cca that night. We may not have enough time to finish it on time. It is creating too much unnecessary stress for the students

84. very tricky

85. Quite good and helpful! But I hope we can attempt all the questions instead of finishing the previous ones.

86. Helpful in understanding concepts covered during lectures

87. adequate

88. Training correct attempts should be made clearly and easily accessible upon each request...

89. Very helpful for me in understanding the class.

90. What I dislike about trainings is that i cannot go on to the next question unless i complete the one that i am doing.

91. They were good in help us revise what we study in the lecture.

92. they are really good! they allow me to have some time to recap what is been taught in lecture and know what i have not understand in lecture.

93. Some are quite tough.

94. Setting a deadline for extra exp for training completion may lead to students "whacking" the answers in coursemology so that they can get it over and done with.

95. Great

96. very useful

97. useful

98. Helpful and extremely essential to do it before missions and side quests.

99. maybe the questions could be open all at a shot, instead of having to solve one before unlocking the other.

100. I feel that having tight deadlines for training bonuses (+50EXP) leads to more emphasis on finishing the training ASAP instead of understanding the concepts.

101. Its good as it allows us to learn our mistakes, but that is provided we understand the error that the interpreter is pointing at. Most of the time, I don't really get it :/

102. its useful

103. Very useful also in understanding the contents

104. They are ok

105. Interesting.

106. Trainings is a really good way to help us understand the concepts taught in lectures better. But if more time can be provided, it would be even better. :)

107. There is no room for making our own codes, we are mainly following an answer scheme

108. Trainings are fine.

109. trainings are useful, helps us to reinforce what we have learnt during lectures, but would be better if we could move on to another qn if we do not know a particular question, and ending up wasting the whole day on it

110. Training questions are manageable.

111. ok

112. Helpful

113. trainings are a bit more manageable and makes me understand the concepts better

114. PLEASE ALLOW US TO skip questions when we are stuck at one. we can't move on without completing that question.

115. helpful

116. The trainings are quite helpful.

117. a bit rushed, after the lecture. like, no matter how many things we have to do that night, we still try to squeeze in the trainings. maybe increase bonus deadline to 36 hrs?

118. if we are stuck at one qn we can't move on to the following qn, this is kind of stressful

119. Extend the training to 48 hours, maybe? Not all of us have time to finish it within 12 noon the next day, due to other lectures and tutorial classes. And sometimes I need some time to revise the things learnt in lecture (and clear my doubts with my tutor, if any) and then start on the training.

120. It helps us to understand the coding better without having to worry if we are correct or wrong. We can debug our codes also.

121. The trainings are generally good for us to refresh on the concepts learnt.

122. I hope we can be provided with solutions to the trainings. Sometime I can solve the problems in the training, but the approach is so complicated!!!!I think I can learn more from the standard answers.

123. A good way to recap after lecture.

124. They can always help a lot.

125. Perhaps it would be better if all the questions are released so that if we are stuck at one question, we can still proceed with the other qns and think about it later.

126. the trainings are effective in checking if we have understood the lecture. however the duration given is too short. it would be good to have the weekends to review it and not rush through it right after lecture in the middle of the week.

127. It was really helpful

128. More time please

129. helpful

130. Trainings are great! It is a an effective way to first understand new concepts and revise. It's an efficient system for us to get immediate feedback to our answers as well.

131. Good preparations for missions but not as interesting as our missions and side quests.

132. Helps me strengthen my basics a little. Just gets a little frustrating if you can't get the answer for a question and you can't move on to complete the other questions first.

133. More explanations besides just telling us whether we are right or wrong

134. Helpful!

135. ok

136. Its really helpful, but perhaps there could be a clearer distinction between public test cases and private test cases. It's really frustrating to know that my code is right but doesn't meet -some kind of expectations that im unaware of-.

137. Trainings are rather tough and the deadline for bonus exp should be extended.

138. i always spend the whole wednesday evening doing the trainings. i think it would be better if we can get the correct answers after trying a few times. staring at one bug is really wasting time.

139. very useful haha i wish more exp was given though it takes me so long to do one

140. Trainings are becoming a big headache. It is really useful but when u are stuck u cant move on and takes up so much of my time. I really wish if u are really stuck, it provides some guide or help cos its consuming way too much time.

141. More practice

142. The training are sometimes difficult and the time given should be till Saturday because during the weekdays, most of the time we do not have sufficient time to complete due to lessons in school

143. Tedious

144. Trainings are good practice for us to revise our concept.

145. It helps to facilitate the understanding on the topics.

146. the training is a good way to consolidate my understanding during lecture

147. very useful for practice and review. More will be better

148. Some training are too hard and unable to complete.

149. this is great

140. 24 hour deadline is too short

151. good lor

152. okay

153. no answers

154. Useful and important to grasp on the fundamentals

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2) Essay

Please explain your selections for the previous question.

1. it  helps to better understand the contents covered in lecture

2. The trainings help us to better understand what was taught in lectures.
The EXP and achievements is like an incentive or motivation to complete the tasks.
It is convenient to be able to submit online.

3. it enhances competetiveness

4. Because I like challenges, I want to get more EXP and achievement thus increasing my spirit to learn. The interaction with teacher especially tutor is also good, they help us correct our mistake. last, cause I love game and programming, I didn't feel like it's a tedious work like any other homework.

5. Coursemology platform helps to keep track of our performance.

6. Actually if my other modules are easy then the mode is very nice for me. But the reality is for the first semester I haven't be familiar with the study system of NUS and haven't formed my own style of study. So in this case, the competitive mode of coursemology becomes more painful for me than it should be. I have other things to do, not only CS1010S.

7. They provide incentives to do work.

8. We would want to lose out ? Most people would want to be top few so when this kind of competitive games are out , people would probably work harder in order not to lose out, the same is for me.

9. Good stuff

10. i dont like the exp and achievements because i am a relatively weak student and i feel demoralized when i see other people doing so much better than me

11. The EXP and leaderboard system gives us an idea of where we currently stand compared to the cohort, somewhat pushing us to work harder

12. It helps me consolidate my learning immediately

13. Trainings allow us to reinforce our basic skills and the content given before each mission allows us to have a clearer idea as to what we need to do

15. The whole game idea was an innovative and interesting one. It motivates us to constantly level up just like how we play games. The first 3 webpage that i open on my laptop everyday will be : facebook, IVLE and coursemology. No joke.

16. To complete the training in 24 hours forces me to review the content. The concept about EXP is quite fun.

17. cool~ which other module would actually come up with something like this! no way for math mods T.T

18. it forces us to do our work continuously. and the storylines prevent the missions from getting to dry and boring

19. The whole idea of game immersion, the role playing concept and the content delivery and submission through cosmology will prompt us to do our weekly practice of cs1010s. The trainings make sure that we understand what have been gone through during the lectures. Interaction with tutors through comment system on coursemology allow me to clarify what i dont understand directly before i forget my questions haha.

20. The continuous structure for the missions help because they show how you could improve your skills with every new knowledge. The real application helps to consolidate the knowledge while using it to do fun things. We acquire and master a skill by using it. :)

21. I think I really  benefit a lot from the coursemology! Training is really the most helpful one to me !

22. Game ma... Nice...

23. I get addicted to the game system and try all I can to level up as soon as possible. I also get obsessed with completing missions asap when I see myself on the leaderboard or just to unlock some achievements on coursemology. The comment system also allows me to clarify my mistakes in missions and sidequests with my tutor whenever I have my laptop and the internet, no longer having to wait till tutorial time.

24. because I will learn by myself in most times

25. Makes learning fun. Allows us to engage w our tutor to clarify mistakes easily.

26. i find that all the above selections have some way or the other made learning computing much happier and interesting.

27. The leaderboard and exp system is very motivating and encouraging. work comments and corrections are all saved on the website. so its really convenient and save paper! The storyline is quite entertaining but i think the missions and tasks itself is quite challenging and fun by itself even without the storyline, even for someone like me without computing bkgrd

28. Side quest - Forces the brain to think in a different and non-conventional manner
Trainings - Serves as checkpoints, to determine if the information we are required to know is already in our heads
Interaction - Doubts are cleared immediately. 

29. game encourages learning

30. The whole idea of gamification is really cool, especially for an technology-based module like this.. I wish all subjects could do the same thing. The leaderboard and achievements is a way to motivate myself and to compare myself with high achievers.

31. The EXP accumulation system drive me to complete missions just like I am playing a game....

32. Role playing concept : It makes us feel a sense of accomplishment when we have achieved extra EXP.
Having storylines: So that the assignment does not feel so still and boring like the usual, makes us more interested.
Trainings: forces us to read through and understand what we have learnt just 24 hours before that 
Content delivery and submissions: encourages us to do on our own and we can then look and review on our submissions again. 
Interaction with teaching staff: comments/feedback give us an idea on what we have did that is wrong or what was our misconception

33. - The role-playing concept gives some sense of motivation for me to finish the misions/trainings/side quests on coursemology.
- Content delivery and submissions through coursemology allow me to look back and revise on past submissions.
- Interaction with teaching staff through the comments system allows me to have better understanding of the parts where i got wrong.

34. I think he comments on the codes are very good for us to learn how we can improve. The leaderboard is a good and bad thing. if you are on it, you feel good if not it just makes you demoralised. especially if you see the first few are many levels higher.

35. Motivated to gain exp
Storyline somewhat interesting
Trainings quite helpful

36. training helps reinforce concepts while comments allow us to clarify doubts directly

37. game immersion is meaningless. for me study is study. the only thing that is meaningful is to have some short conversation with tutors to clarify concepts and check my understanding.

38. Just the trainings.

39. The whole idea of gaming makes it more interesting to complete the missions. The storyline is good because it makes what we are finding more logical. The leaderboard is good as we can refer to the levels and spur us on to be in it.

40. It consolidates some concepts taught in lecture.

41. It is interesting to have such platform to study.

42. It allow us to practice before doing mission.

43. I think coursemology have been impactful to my learning of of this module indeed. Apart from regular practice, I like that coursemology has allowed computing problem to be presented and approached in a practical manner. Coursemology has allowed for timely feedback and assessment which makes learning much efficient. I like to it has allowed us to tackle the problem with greater flexibility of time and location as well, contrary to working the problems in a lab.

44. the leader board drive me to study harder

45. Most relevant to lecture

46. Well, the time I have spent on CS > time spent on other 4 modules combined

47. The whole idea of game immersion is interesting.
Training can force us to revise the content that was went through in lecture.
Interaction with teaching staff through comments system on coursemology allows us to get feedback and identify our mistakes or misunderstand of certain concepts.

48. i only find the trainings having a positive impact on my learning. To me, the others (although might be useful), they are a waste of time, and way too much time and effort is spent on so little percentage

49. In order to get more EXP I would work more carefully and harder to get full marks.
Tutors also encourage me to keep on working.

50. Coursemology makes this module special!

51. they allow me to keep up with learning and it is fun to have something like game.

52. The idea of having story lines make it fun to study

53. I believe learning should be taught in a fun and approachable manner, instead of the usual textbooks, homework style.

54. Constant datelines due every week forces students to practice consistently which I feel is quite essential to learning any programming language.

55. They are much more interesting. Comment system is especially useful for making feedback specific to certain problems.

56. Overall, the game system gives me a interesting homework experience.

57. all parts are quite creative to induce me to learn

58. I learnt more through coursemology because it was compulsory to gain exp to reach lvl 35!

59. For training, I think it is just a little boring compared with missions and side quests.
Besides, the story lines  sometimes really confuse me... maybe it's because my poor English.

60. It doesn't make work look as boring as it actually is. To gain as much EXP to level up is a motivating factor to want to spend more time figuring out the questions.

61. I really like those cute stories before the questions! Though I don't really have so much time for them as the workload getting heavier and heavier...

62. Trainings are automatically graded, which is convenient.

63. The system just attracts me to finish all the work

64. I just want to level up to level 35...

65. I am not really interested in the storyline

66. My doubts can always be cleared on time with the help of the teaching staff. And it is quite challenging and fun to compete with peers.

67. I guess its all cool and stuff, doesn't feel mundane

68. that makes studying not too boring

69. It is quite enjoyable to see the XP going up and be able to solve daily problems.

70. I'm not so sure. Maybe just the competition urges people to work more.

71. could do assignments at own pace. different ways of coding introduced progressively allow understanding of coding better. grading and comments from greeting staff help clarify doubts quickly which also help in understanding. game immersion gives a little more motivation to do assignments and the storylines provide a little humour which is fun to read.

72. Storylines is very distracting.
Leadership board is stressful, in some sense

73. They all helps me practice for this module. The interaction online through comments make me know what I need to improve, so it is also quite useful.

74. inspiring!

75. A storyline makes the missions more interesting.

76. Having the ExP , achievements and leaderboard motivates me to complete the missions and side quests early. Training helps in my understanding of the new concepts.

77. This sort of 'game' system allows me to have constant revision of my learnings each week, and actually it makes me more engaged and enjoy what I'm doing because I know I can level up after clearing my missions. There's a fun factor to it, and sort of unknowingly forces me to revise concepts in an effective manner, knowing how to apply it. The commenting system is also very convenient for the tutors to comment on our mistakes, serves as a reminder always whenever looking back for revision. I also like it when our submissions get saved, and we van always review back on our past mistakes.

78. The role-playing concept gives me incentives to work harder. Story lines give the study more fun. Trainings help me in learning the basic concepts. The interaction tells me where I went wrong.

79. usually don't look at the storyline... Maybe interesting to some students, and contests don't really help me with the learning, leaderboard also not so much an incentive for me. others are helpful

80. Unconsciously, we will want to have higher levels, thus, it influences us to try and do the missions as best as we could. Submissions through coursemology(online) makes it easier for us since we can do our work at night and just submit it when we are done.

81. the two i choose are quite useful

82. The levels and leaderboard system motivates us to do better and be one of the top few

83. I believe that we learn the most when we can explain the concept to others. Lectures are way better than other modules lectures as the ideas are broken down and understandable. Perhaps, on top of the missions side quests and contests, a buddy system could be implemented. To minimize administrative work, this pairing could be done randomly using the nominal roll. Every week the buddy changes. Each buddy's role is to set a question for his buddy. If the buddy can solve it, he gains points. If he cannot, the person who set the question must explain to him why the answer is as such.

84. The game system is a very new concept for me, especially since I am not a gamer. I find it extremely useful and motivating to somewhat relate doing assignments to playing a game and eventually leveling up.

85. i really like the comments system, as it makes it easier for the student to interact with the tutors and lecturers without having to shoot emails back and forth. tutor's comments are also directed at a particular line, which is really handy. some students might not notice that there are comments, though.
Overall i think the game system is quite fun, but I wouldn't want to be taking more than 2 such modules per sem, due to the high workload

86. I can clear my doubts regarding to the mission through the "comment" section.

87. Oh, I have chosen all the choices... Yes, coursemology is a quite effective and interesting self-learning system. Its similar design to RPG game also makes the learning process interesting and challenging. I learnt lots of valuable things from the process. It is a good system that should be used in other courses if feasible.

88. help me to focus on my cs learning

89. I JUST LOVE COUREMOLOGY

90. It's great to know hard work is rewarded in this module. And the storylines help me to get accustomed to long questions in tests or exams.

91. The exp was a motivating factor for most students to try and at least attempt the problems.

92. The game system really increase the interest on coding.

93. Engages students and 'forces' them to do their homework (In a good way).

94. Cool for study

95. EXP and achievements motivate the students to wish to do more work. While trainings help to reinforce what has been taught prior to lecture. Interaction of the tutors via the commenting system makes consultations more approachable and convenient, which is something not usually seen in other modules.

96. Interaction with teaching staff through comments allows us to find out where we have gone wrong and how we can improve.

97. i like rpg

98. The EXP concepts motivates me to want to move up the level by gaining more exp.

99. Role Playing Concept: Who doesn't like playing RPGs?
Side Quests: Motivation to want to "level up"
Trainings: Actually this is more academic. Trainings tend to give -some- hints to how to approach missions
Content delivery&submission: Very well coordinated. With datelines and everything to make sure you never miss a beat :)

100. See whether digest the chance to get A

101. trainings helped me in understand the more basic concepts+ foundation

102. some trainings can help me understand the lecture better.

103. It is interesting to have a game scheme and feedbacks from tutor through coursemology are immediate.

104. It is useful to see how I'm faring among the others.

105. I really enjoyed reading the storyline. And the game immersion makes me feel less stressed. Gaining EXP and achievements also makes me feel a sense of achievement.

106. Personally don't really like the story line, not my cup of tea, maybe the rest would like it.

107. The game system and awarding of exp for each assignment completed will somehow push us to complete our work and in the process grasp the concepts more quickly.

108. I like the game system. 

109. It encourages us to do work more quickly and more interested to complete the work more quickly.
The story lines keep it interesting! Its what I actually look forward to for each mission. heh.
Trainings are great. They reinforce what I've learnt and makes me aware of what I know and what I don't know.
Comments allows me to clarify my doubts.

110. Interaction is quite helpful.

111. The game-concept is interesting. side-quests are hard but improve students' understandings on the language. training help students to strengthen the basic.

112. I just don't care about leaderboards, I have my own pace of study. Other items are quite interesting especially "interaction with teaching staff through comments system on coursemology"．　The first time I got comments by my tutor and Prof Ben I felt really really excited!!

113. I like the idea of getting all the people into leaderboard. it makes the missions like competition. frankly, I put more time in it because of the leaderboard.

114. its a competitive environment that force me to learn

115. I like to get EXP and level up after every submission, which give me a sense of achievement. What's more, to stay in the leader board also encourage me to work on.

116. due to the fact that i am somewhat addicted to computer games, so the style is attractive m

117. Trainings help to reinforce concepts.

118. Leaderboard: some competition helps me study more effectively and give me a good chance to learn from the "leaders"
Side quests: think more, practice more and do some research by myself
Trainings: helps me understand the basic conceptions better
Interaction with teaching staff through comments system on Coursemology: easy for me to ask them questions and chatting with them makes me more interested in this course.

119. The coursemology in general is helpful. The creativity of the storylines brings me joy when attempting the missions.

120. Getting points for every assignment turned in is a good incentive. The leaderboard is good for people who are ultracompetitive

121. I like the role-playing style. It motivates me to study.

122. Side quests allow me to think out of the box.
Training allows me to estimate the knowledge that I have for one topic after lecture.
Staff's comments allow me to improve on my code.

123. Once I get higher ranking on the leaderboard, and then someone get higher rank than me. I will get more enthusiasm to do my mission, side quest, and even the contest.

124. More interesting. Not the usual scoring method

125. Engaging and interesting

126. I have to chase people. and I will know what I did not do or did not do well.

127. It brings assignments to a different level.

128. trainings and side quests are helpful. however, i am not a gamer hence I am really impacted by the whole gaming

129. which is quite consistent and know what's going on there

130. Exp and leaderboard can motivate me to be an early bird in doing missions, and story lines are really cool

131. EXP encourages, trainings allow us to try over and over again until we get it right. This allows us to leave an impression of what went wrong. Learnt new things through coursemology through comments system.

132. motivation

133. Trainings allow us to try out the questions that are related to the content taught in the lecture on the actual day itself. Hence this reinforces what we've learnt during the lecture, so that we know what we have really learnt from the lecture and it somewhat provides a preview of what's expected for tutorials and recitation.
For the interaction part, the tutor is able to specifically point out what is wrong with our codes and give us feedback which is useful for our learning.

134. Make learning python less boring.

135. EXP system encourage people to complete missions and trainings on time so that they can level up.

136. Trainings teach the basics.
EXP allows us to track our progress.

137. Passion and immersion are what make up my wanting to study.

138. The role-playing concepts that uses EXP and achievement motivate students to do more.

139. Side quests and trainings provide examples on how lecture content can be used. Extra trainings help reinforce concepts too.

130. Trainings as stated in qn32
Interaction with teaching staff helps to clarify some doubts through online medium.

141. First time anyhow spam until correct. But the good thing is that we can review the questions.  Which the qn makes more sense after we have better understanding of the topic

142. I guess it's the 'competition' that pressures you to really keep up. And the crazy deadlines force us to spend a hell of time on CS to figure out what we need to know and what we need to do. Having the leaderboard tells you how far you are from the more hardworking/the better students and is therefore an indication of how much more you have to do to be near their level (not to be on par 'cause that's a little crazy.).

143. Based on my observation, training is the only exercise that is closely linked to our content. Others are just creating unnecessary stress and taking up too much of our free time.

144. it is very convenient.

145. get more practice loh

146. useful

147. having follow ups to the lecture/missions reinforces my learning. I personally enjoy having storylines for the work I need to do. its more interesting and links up the task

148. The game immersion is engaging.

149. All of them have positive impacts on me...I would like to include the contests as well.

150. I can have a sense of achievement when finishing missions by myself.

151. Love it.

152. The idea of generating a course into a game is fantastic.

153. The Coursemology platform really make me feel that I am playing a game instead of doing a boring homework assignment.  The leaderboard serve to be a gauge for me to see if I am lacking behind too much. I think it serve as a motivation for some stronger.

154. I love gaming! I am addicted to victory, so I like competitions and want to see my name on the leaderboard. This idea gives me more motivation to work. I also find trainings worth spending time for as they are difficult and valuable of knowledge.

155. It just makes homework more than just homework. It is like a mission in a game. It is good because we do the training for foundation and then more on to missions to apply what we learn and sidequest to challenge ourselves. It is a good feeling after finishing all the missions!

156. more interesting

157. it's good that we can interact with the teaching staff through the comments system, and that our missions/sidequests are graded by them rather than auto graded. allows us to clarify anything we're unsure of in the comments, and learn alternative ways in which we could write the code

158. Interesting

159. the trainings provide immediate feedback which is very effective in bridging the knowledge gap ..

160. making it a game will let people feel eager to study, or finish the task

161. I do not really like the story lines and the concept of gaming. The efforts the Prof and tutors made are great but the effect is somehow not so great for me.

162. The role-playing concept helps us to do coding in a different and interesting way as oppose to normal tutorial and recitations.

163. Quite convenient for online submissions and learn from those missions, trainings and side-quests.

164. Overall, the EXP method is a brilliant idea to me.
From my opinion, it is not a game. Ever mission is just a quest that I need to conquer. 
So my biggest wish is after finishing all missions, I can have a deep understanding of Python. 

165. It is very difficult to see this as a game.

166. Just like in a game, it spurs one in gaining more badges and also more experiences, thus this spur students in wanting to do their very best

167. The EXP and achievements will give the students a sense of progression. Besides the idea of game immersion is creative and attractive. 

168. They are helpful practice.

169. Everyone hopes to see his/her name on leaderboard, then all of them will strive to learn and earn EXP.
Personally I think the storyline is useless, I never read the story before missions.

170. Training and side quests help me to consolidate and maybe my understanding. Interaction with the staff allows me to clarify with them when in doubt

171. I like the side quests because they can make up the EXP I lost in some missions.
Trainings are more easily edited than missions because they do not require me to edit the whole template.

172. Comments come right after grading and that allows me to correct my mistakes and learn form them. And the trainings allow me to revise what I have learnt in the lecture.

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4) Essay

Please explain your selections for the previous question.

1. Sometimes don't want to read the story. Actually it is not a negative part as I just ignore it.

2. leaderboard stresses people to do their work (may be good or bad)

3. It makes people more stress and competitive about their level and stuff.

4. I don't think any have exactly a negative impact, but maybe its the 'addictiveness' level that makes us unknowingly spend more time on Coursemology such that we neglect our other mods.

5. Takes too much time to be read.

6. There are too many students who are over-enthusiastic, very hard to compete

7. i feel demoralized... :(

8. Can be quite time consuming sometimes.

9. I am having trouble finishing missions and the side quests are just too much.

10. Stressful

11. quite pressurising

12. Very demoralising

13. It really gives me a lot pressure.

14. Just as something is positive, it could have negative impact as well. Like keep doing sidequests in order not to lose out, spending so much time in such one module, neglecting other module and just do the sidequest for the sake of getting EXP but not for the sake of wanting to learn more.

15. Leader board is meant only for people who have background, sometimes a bit discouraging.

16. Instead of learning the proper key concepts, students are competing against each other to get higher EXP and achievements.

17. Stressful to be on par with those people

18. Stories are unnecessary

19. although it is said that side quest are optional and one should do it to make up for careless mistakes for mission. but seems like everyone does the sidequest and it seems to have become a requirement to do it as well.

20. too stressful

21. I really think it can only let those who cannot do well down...

22. ........ ITS NOT NICE SEEING 10394090239609 PEOPLE AHEAD OF ME

23. Actually no negative impact. Just the leaderboard makes me feel very anxious sometimes.

24. Leaderboard makes weaker students feel like shit and the Side Quest should be easier.

25. Storylines can be confusing.

26. demoralising at the same time

27. By looking at the high levels people it might add on to the stress level as some might not be able to catch up and lacking behind.

28. KIND OF CHEESY

29. Sometimes can't do the training because of time constraint and the 24 hour +50 bonus EXP will just be gone. It is a discouragement.

30. the system is generally very fun to use and a very different way of learning that i do enjoy :)

31. A little cut-throat.

32. They sidequestions are interesting but take me much time to do. However, if I don't do it I cannot catch up with others with respect to EXP. It makes me struggling.

33. no other choice

34. Once you miss the minimum grade to earn the badge, you don't have the chance to earn that badge again forever... LOL

35. It is too stressful.

36. When I see that my level is way below the leaders, it demoralizes me and makes me worried

37. Knowing how I am doing compared to others is somewhat very intimidating.

38. For me is not much of a use cos my name was never on it before.

39. Too stressful. But maybe it has a positive impact for those on the leaderboard.

40. The leaderboard makes me feel the stress.

41. the leaderboard only places more pressure on the weaker students (me) to catch up to the rest and to earn the 35%. 
the storylines are sometimes way too long and very confusing to understand
dont really see the point of game immersion

42. not interested at all,i just wanna quickly finish the work.

43. Demoralising

44. It stresses me up!

45. Quite competitive. Demoralising for some.

46. Just too much questions>

47. To long, have no time to read.

48. The story is somehow boring :P.

49. Everything else is fine, not good not bad. The leaderboard sucks. It should be taken away. It is extremely demoralizing and reveals who are the craziest people in SOC.
Storylines make the mission so much longer. We should be direct and crude with words. Some tasks are made complicated due to excessive information and storylines. It is no longer all about coding.
Sidequests seem to be compulsory cause missions are so hard so everyone will be afraid taht one day they can't do and they need their sidequests.

50. Time consuming

51. feel very stressed when i know i am left behind and people may just try to do the code and when they know get correct answers then they will move on without learning.

52. It makes me feel bad whenever I think I am too dumb.

53. feel a little pressured when there are people climbing up levels like nobody business but it kind of help to pace my working speed i.e. if lagging too much then it's time to buck up

54. not interesting at all

55. The leaderboard puts more pressure on those who are lagging behind the rest (ie. very stress)

56. So sad because i can never get up there.

57. I think the reason is that I am not in learderboard
the story, ok, make the pdf a bigger size and I never look at it expect for the first time

58. I dun want to know their level. It makes me feel stressful...

59. It makes the questions seems naggy...

60. Too much details. Something its a bit waste of time to read the whole thing.

61. Too much pressure. If I can't do it (after my training and then mission for that week), I feel like I am falling back.

62. Having a leaderboard can be a double edge sword to every student. It can either boost confidence or lower someone's morale. I prefer it to be anonymous.

63. I have to say that some of the expressing of mission instruction is not very clear.
(Maybe my English is not very good) I miss understand it sometimes.

64. stressful

65. Leaderboard is a double-edged sword to me.
It drives me to work harder so that I can get closer to those top rankings. However, it is really stressful.

66. It can be demoralising to see the fast progress of other peers, suggesting a feeling that you may be lagging behind.

67. Side quests are usually tougher than the main quests, and not all students can do it. In the end, some people will have lower levels compared to others and become somewhat stressed.

68. Most of the time I find them difficult, and they kind of annoy me because I can't do them

69. It don't seems to be a game...

70. stress

71. It is kind of lame...

72. Somewhat a little messy when I try to find the question

73. not really needed. give people more stress only

74. The sidequests are often very stressful to do.

75. Its stressful..
The sidequest are too rush

76. these stories are not so useful

77. Sometimes the story is just too long:(

78. It keeps me distracted.

79. actually, I do not think any of them has any negative impact. They are all helpful.

80. because I do not like treat knowledge as games...... I want to be more serious about the knowledge.

81. No time to finish all

82. As much as the stories are very interesting to read, it may get a bit lengthy sometimes and creating the impression that the mission description is very long, thus appear daunting at first sight.

83. Makes it quite competitive

84. Very demoralising sometimes.

85. Some achievements and EXP can be lost forever if you mess up one mission/don't finish a sidequest. Leads to OCD.
I am uncomfortable with the "deadline" for trainings being only 1 day, because I have long Wednesdays and Thursdays.

86. The reason why CAP is kept confidential as a personal secret is to prevent undue stress on fellow colleagues. The usage of bell curve by PROVOST is already causing some debate, but I felt that moderation is good. But that reflects only how well you perform against your peers in that year, that sem, that cohort. Stress can be a good motivator for students who can manage the workload, but for those who struggling, they could possibly give up. That is where I felt should not be a case for any student.

87. personally I don't like it. it spends you a lot of time building and maintaining the whole system but I saw very little benefit from doing so (for undergraduate students. perhaps it is really a good idea to try this on sec 2 students)
an online system is still necessary anyway, but can simplify the whole thing.

88. Very demoralising when you see people getting a very high level while you're still stuck at a low level struggling.

89. I don't know where is the storylines actually. I would like to see.

90. it makes me kind of stressed...

91. Gets a little depressing and demoralising at times. LOL.

92. Leaderboard is pretty annoying

93. Content delivery and submissions through couremology: Sometimes I need to copy and paste the codes and test them again and again to ensure the form and space are all correct before submission...

94. Sometime so confusing >o

95. Reading too many words in missions and sidequests make me feel like this is a English module...

96. Not good

97. sometimes make me feel tired

98. I might be a little "addicted" to the missions and sidequests.

99. Some side quest can be very tough

100. The leaderboard is created to give extra pressures on us.
Side questions are almost the same as missions because everyone does it.

101. It is somehow stressful and demoralizing to see people's level in the leaderboard.

102. Distracting

103. the stoy lines should just be eliminated . waste pdf pages

104. it just make the mission too long to read

105. The leaderboard merely showed who had taken the python bridging module before this semester, which not surprisingly were mostly non-singaporean students.

106. stressed that everyone is doing them and i havent!

107. It causes unnecessary stress.

108. Feel demoralized and stop caring as the leaderboard people are too far ahead of me.

109. It gives to little hints for the anwers

110. It's competitive this way
Quite a chore for submission

111. I hate stories!!! I spend more time reading instructions than coding. Especially for mission08. Why not just give instructions concisely?

112. It takes me quite a long time to read through the story every time...

113. The storylines were alright at first, but they become a bit distracting recently.
Leaderboard: see below :)

114. Better than assignments.

115. It increases competitiveness.

116. Side quests: sidequests are usually more difficult and i really have no time to complete them, hence it makes me lose out to many of the other people who complete the sidequests, on top of the missions and trainings.

117. Very stresssssful when my peers get really high level.

118. some are even harder than main mission

119. stressful

120. however, i am not a gamer hence I am really impacted by the whole gaming idea. also, seeing how other people are leveling up so quickly made me feel more incompetent than motivated.

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6) Essay

Please explain your selections for the previous question.

1. I am very happy to see my new achievement when I open the page.

2. Actually, CS itself is just like an interesting game to me. The ideas, algorithm, thinking and designing process, coding all attracts me a lot.

3. After completing missions it feels good to have your name on the leaderboard as it is a sense of achievement, for the badges it does not really affects much.

4. I want to pass this module

5. exp = grade.

6. make me feel like to do more work

7. If I know something is fun and yet applicable, it makes me think about it and it urges me to think more about it.

8. The levels spur one to keep wanting to achieve the next level

9. Good way to award students for their achievements

10. I don't know... it is somehow delighted to see your new achievements appear on the screen whenever I open coursemology...

11. when you see a gap between the level of those on leaderboard and your own, you will be pressured to do more.

12. Encourage us to complete all side quests and mission to aim to get up on leaderboard.  Else we wont even bother during the side quests since its not compulsory

13. i kind of know that i wont be the top...but the fact that everyone is so much ahead of me ind of motivates me to work harder in order to catch up

14. It makes u work harder

15. It tests how much I really understand the concepts through submissions of Missions (in a fun way because of the storylines)

16. normal homework.... just need to finish.

17. if i lag too far behind people, i feel way too stupid and dumb and useless

18. Not too sure. Just wanna get my work done and know my stuff (or know what I don't know). Maybe the levels of people on the leaderboard plays a small part.

19. I feel that I am right on track (and therefore, happy) if I manage to get an achievement for my mission. But if not, then I just go on to the next one and try harder.

20. Cause I want 35%.

21. Can faster get to level 35.

22. To gain EXP so as to catch up with my friends.

23. marks for the online mission takes 35% of the final marks

30. The encouragements from the tutor makes me feel motivated.

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9) Essay

Please let us have your comments and suggestions on the Coursemology.org platform

1. Creative and interesting platform help me study more effectively.

2. v v well and good designed.

3. Very good:)

4. One small suggestion: The content saved should be automatically submitted after deadline because I have missed the deadline by pressing the wrong button.

5. Sorry, I don't think I can contribute any help.
Generally, it is a good learning tool to me.

6. acceptable

7. It would be nice to have an unsubmit button as long as it is before a stipulated due date. Of course, if tutors already graded the mission then too bad.

8. I prefer a reduce of workload.

9. It is kind of cool.

10. Cool platform. Seriously.

11. design can be nicer.

12. I felt that the leaderboard is not the main factor motivating people to do their work. I felt it is more due to the platform. The convenience to submit codes and do questions online, with immediate feedback on whether we are right and wrong. From there, we can immediately learn from our mistakes. Learning form confusion and mistakes is the best experience where one will remember long enough.
We should acknowledge that there are multiple solutions to a single problem. Anything under the sun can be a possible solution. The process of thinking is where new algorithms could be found and rigidity is where we don't want to be. However, two people are unlikely to think alike unless they know each other well enough. Hence, making coursemology more transparent is a very good way to bring out this point.
What i mean is that, after the dateline, the works of all students can be viewed by other students. This ensures that those who can code and cannot code can learn from each other.

13. Allow us to skip questions for trainings, instead of spending so much time on one question in order to get it correct and move on to the next question.

14. Just fantastic... I could never imagine I can learn and be evaluated in such a way before.

15. Nice.

16. Very nice

17. it is nice~

18. fails to load at time. crashes some times while doing training

19. It is an efficient platform as all our work are collated there and we can always review our work based from there.

20. The platform is generally good, but sometimes the page just stop when I submit the training.

21. Easy to use.

22. very good

23. it is convenient and helpful to have such platform

30. It's a pretty brilliant way of stealthily making us do more work. More work equals better understanding equals more fun. It's not nice to know that I'm in a virtual skinner box, but it really goes a long way towards making me understand the ideas.

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