A new feature that we’ll be rolling with the 6th edition is a website with Interactive Exercises. At this website, students can generate, and then view solutions for, selected problems similar to those at the end of chapter. But what’s really nice is that students can generate an unlimited number of similar problem instances, and so they can work until the material is truly mastered. (One nice feature for teachers is that one can generate, and then get the solution for, a new instance of a problem that is similar to, but not exactly the same as, an end-of-chapter problem. So this can be used to generate unique homework or exam problems).
We’ve put up some initial problems at http://gaia.cs.umass.edu/kurose/test. Please check it out, and feel free to encourage your students to do so! The web site is still under development, but we’d love to get feedback about what you think about the concept, and the specific problems that we’ve posted. We’ve got ideas for additional problems to add, but we’d also appreciate your suggestions for additional problems to add. Email us at kurose@cs.umass.edu and ross@poly.edu
Jim
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