I was asked for some help on an end of school project. It was from an 18 yr old who has a uni place next year to study electronics.
Teacher has asked students to program an arduino to make a metal detector. All sounds fair enough, although I would have expected the project to be carried out in groups of 3 or 4 students. I would also expect the hardware to be supplied.
It turns out each student has to pay out around B1000 and learn about the Arduino without tuition. Not that easy when most don't understand enough English to program in C.
Or....
...They can pay the teacher B5000 and get a pass for the project..
Apparently the rest of the class has opted for the latter option. The student I'm helping has bought the hardware and made a decent job of trying to program it. I am just breaking problem into bite size chunks so he can see where he went wrong.
Question: is this standard practice for Thailand?