Cue - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

I had two classes like this, zero grades over the semester, they were among my favorite. Though we didn't really ponder what we were doing there and the means for final grades, for the admins, were both interesting (final test too long and hard, you already know what your grade is)

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pton_xd 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I had a class like this, Discrete Mathematics, with no grades or assigned homework and just a graded midterm and final. It was easily my least favorite class; I didn't know where to spend my time and spent most of the semester wandering aimlessly through the material. The final was very difficult but open book (to help make up for the lack of structure in the course?) and ended up having a ridiculous curve.

Could have also just been a bad professor though.

	▲	verdverm 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		These things are definitely down to the professor. Both of my cases were great teachers. My Calc 3 class was probably the worst, the prof always showed up 20m late, but he pulled the most funding in the department, so he did whatever he wanted. Grades are a way for teacher and student to check their learning, but teaching still needs to happen regardless of checkpoints. Some subjects require practice, like pre-proof writing in math and many other introductory to intermediate level courses. This is where homework comes in handy. For my set theory class, the professor still assigned problems, he just never collected or graded them. For my Data Sci 2 seminar, it was only seven of us and we did several presentations and a papers.