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On 09/03/2013 6:24 AM, komal singh wrote:
> http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TYVGZTQ

Thanks for posting the link. Here are some criticisms of the survey itself.

You're asking for natural-language style answers, some of which seem to 
me to require LONG essays to do anything more than a superficial job of 
conveying what the respondent might be thinking. Also the answers of one 
respondent might not be comparable at all to someone else' answers 
because they'd make different interpretations of the questions and 
decide to answer in different degrees of detail.

You need to ask more focused questions. If your supervisor is working in 
this area, s/he ought to be able to find someone local, either within 
the school or in a local software house, to refine the questions into 
something more concrete and easier to answer.

There's no harm in a *few* open-ended questions -- most surveys have 
*some* of that sort.

At the end you ask people to write a program. Asking a professional 
programmer to volunteer time can be pretty dicey; they rightly expect to 
be paid (and may be required to refuse free work by, for example, union 
rules).