EBoard 07: Pair Programming
Reminders to Self
- Warning This class is being recorded.
Quiz Day!
- Grab a quiz when you arrive. It’s in the orange folder.
- Follow normal seating protocol (see below).
- Start the quiz when you are seated.
- Relax/meditate/read when you are done.
- Quizzes will be collected and class will start at 8:45 a.m.
Getting started (this will be our normal start-of-class sequence)
Updated for Covid spread
- Grab a card. The card will have a computer name and a location.
- Remember the name and location.
- Drop the card back in the jar.
- Navigate to the computer.
- If you arrive first, get a santizing cloth and wipe down the station.
Then log in and load the lab, but don’t start.
- When both partners arrive, introduce yourselves.
Approximate overview
- Quiz
- Administrivia
- About MP2
- Background
- Exercise
- Discussion
Quiz
See above.
Administrivia
Introductory notes
- Covid and other illnesses remains issues. Consider masking. Clean
your keyboards.
- Remember: Support is available
- Mentor sessions: Sundays 1-2 in Science 3813 (this room).
- Evening tutors: Sunday 3-5, Sunday-Thursday 7-10pm in 3813/3815.
- Sam (via office hours, email, and Teams Chat).
- Individual tutors.
- Today’s “Lab Writeup” is a bit different and will be labeled something
like “LA: Collaboration”. You will also do it outside of class (sorry).
- I’ve had some students ask about forming study groups. That’s fine with
me. I’m even happy to collect names of students interested in forming
study groups. If you are interested, send me your name before class on
Monday and I’ll send the list of names to anyone who sent me their name.
- I hear that my email sometimes shows up as encrypted. It’s not.
Microsoft just writes bad software. I’ve stopped digitally signing
my email, which should address the problem.
- Office hours:
- Please try to book using https://bit.ly/book-samr.
- If I don’t seem to have office hours available, it’s because (a) they
are already booked or (b) I have a conflicting obligation. Feel free
to use the Outlook scheduling assistant to suggest another time.
- You can also wander by during my office hours. If I’m free, I’ll
be there. However, I am sometimes meeting people elsewhere.
- Please let me know if you’re using the Otter.ai transcription. If not,
I’ll probably stop using it. (I’ll still do the Teams recordings.)
- How was the quiz?
Upcoming Token activities
Academic
- Mentor Session, 1-2 pm Sunday, here.
Cultural
Peer
- Football vs. Rippon, 1pm Saturday, 9 Sept 2023
Wellness
Other Good Things
- Support women’s tennis tomorrow morning.
- Les Duke tomorrow
Upcoming work
- Friday Night: MP1 post-assessment.
- Sunday Night: Reading responses.
- Readings to be posted tonight (I hope).
- Monday (before class): Today’s lab writeup due.
- Monday Night: MP2 pre-assessment.
- Thursday Night: MP2 due.
Attending class remotely
Given the illnesses going around campus, some of you may need to
attend class remotely. That’s fine, but please try not to make it
your norm.
a. Let me know via email that you will not be in class.
b. You are still responsible for the work. Plan to do the lab on your own.
c. Synchronous: If you wish, you can join the Teams Meeting during
class. That gives you an opportunity to hear what I say and ask
me questions.
d. Asynchronous: If not, I recommend that you check the recording
and the eboard. (You may want to check those anyway.)
e. Let me know if you need extra time on any assignments.
f. If you can’t be here for a quiz, you’ll need to take a makeup
another week.
Friday PSA
- You are wonderful people. Others care about you.
- Please take care of yourselves.
- Know what is appropriate for yourself; don’t fall victim to perceived
peer pressure. Decide what’s right for you and stick to it.
- Consent is essential.
About MP2
Make sure to update your csc151 library.
Background
- Today is our talk about pair-programming day
- Partnering works imperfectly
An Exercise
TPS
- Think TO YOURSELF
- Talk with your partner about things you heard (or thought you heard)
- Prepare to share with others
What we heard/thought?
- “partner” is not the same as “parent”, although they have similar letters.
- We heard some reinforcement that “two heads are better than one”, which
we also saw in the reading. It’s nice to have someone who can unstick
you.
- Two people with no experience can help each other.
- People seem to make assumptions about each other. How do we avoid that?
You have smart partners, remember that.
- Meeting new people is great.
- Don’t take the keyboard from your partner.
- It shouldn’t be hard to treat people with respect.
Important moral
- Partnering in CSC151 can be great. Please make it so.
What else did you take from the readings?
- Please don’t be a hitchhiker; please don’t let others hitchhike
- Please don’t dominate our partner; please don’t let others dominate
- There are studies behind this; there’s proof that working together is
better (more efficient, better results, etc.)
- Programmers have dirty/greasy hands. (That was intended as a joke.
Someone please laugh.)
- The act of coding with someone else can energize you / make you more
enthusiastic about the task.
- Having to talk through a problem is helpful; talking to a rubber plant
(or stuffed animal) is good; talking to a human being is great.
- Big idea: Driver and navigator
- Driver types, navigator directs/advises
How should Sam establish that you’ve learned this?