Continued from Results from the January 2012 Core Skills Course, by Gregory Brown
For our integration exercise we had students build multi-user email based applications. All ten students who completed the course worked on this exercise, and we ended up with everything from an email-based wiki to a system for sharing funny stories and jokes.
For our academic exercise, we asked students to make use of Markov Chains to do something interested. Seven of our students participated in this exercise, and we ended up all sorts of cool results, including a jazz chart generator and a tool which predicts movements in currency exchange rates.
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