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MacOS Core Programming Course
Class Participation

Class Procedures and Rules of Conduct

If you have not already read the Group Study section of the How To Take a Course page, please do that now. It provides an overview of how The MOST handles ANY group study course. Participants are also requested to familiarize themselves with The MOST's Rules of Etiquette.

The MOST-MacOS-Core mailing list should be considered as a classroom for the students taking the course. We have a pretty light-hearted approach to exchanges on the class mailing list, but we do expect students to be courteous, and focused, in their discussions. Here are a few pointers for being courteous to the other students:

• The class provides mentors to help those who are trying to perform self-study, not teachers to spoon feed every aspect of MacOS programming to anyone. Students are expected to have read the materials for a lesson before asking questions about the material that it covers.
• All postings to the class list which contain a technical question should relate explicitly to one of the lessons in the course. This ensures that the question is appropriate for the list and helps the other students to filter any questions that are beyond their area of current study. Start the "Subject" of the email with "L-XX" (where XX is a number from 01 to 23) to indicate the lesson to which the question applies.
• Reasonable discussion of a point on the course mailing list is a very positive thing... even a bit of frivolous humor at times... but when the discussion gets to the point of nit-picking which font is better to use for displaying code or things of that nature, please take it offline.

Similar rules apply to any group interactions using Co-motion, but since these sessions may be established specifically to focus on a particular area of interest to a subset of the students, the strictures about excessive discussion of a specific subject don't necessarily apply (to be decided by the particpants in the specific session).

Class Participation

... is whatever you want it to be. Some students have asked a number of questions on the same topic until they fully understood a difficult concept, while others have spoken up only once or not at all. The list is there to be used when needed, but silence should also be considered a feature :-).

K.J. answered quite a few of the questions asked on the list in the first few months of the pilot class, but all of the mentors (and some of the students) have provided help as well. So far we haven't had a question go unanswered.

You are encouraged to post a "status update" every two months to the list. But dont' feel obligated.

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