Feedback from GAP Tutorial at PGTC 2018 in St Andrews

Green notes:

• The motivating problem was a great example of how GAP is useful to research
• Great to work through a research question - much more interesting!
• Very helpful towards new users
• Good pacing and interesting examples
• Useful GAP functionality that I had not seen before
• Clear+informative; some new things that I didn't know
• It was good to see the process of debugging broken down properly
• Love learning how to be lazy! TAB, ESC!!!
• Sticky system; framapad
• Sticky notes system; "code-along" format
• Helpers were very useful to have
• Thanks!

Pink notes:

• Towards the end pace was a bit quick (if one wanted to follow everything on personal computer)
• Can be a bit fast at times
• Could go through main concepts at a slower pace
• A list of problems would give those who have used GAP something to do while others catch up
• If you could make a central list of all the commands taught during the lesson (maybe on the Framapad) that would be great!
• In the "Small groups search" worksheet after the TestOneOrderVariadic is defined, a function IsIntegerAverageOrder is called but it should be the function TestOneGroup instead.
• Would be useful to see both the text editor and GAP on same screen
• When demonstrating, it would be nice to see the terminal and the windows of the text file at the same time, as I can't always keep up with the typing speed
• Leave text windows (e.g. test files) on board for longer (split screen)
• Copy and paste large pieces of code into Framapad
• More info regarding text editor beforehand
• Nothing to say