EBoard 42: Wrapup

Warning! You are being recorded (and transcribed).

Approximate overview

• Administrative stuff
• Questions
• A class activity, part 1
• “The subject matter of this class.”
• EOCEs
• Additional debriefing
• A class activity, part 2
• Final thoughts

Administrative stuff

• I have no office hours planned for next week. I will either be working at home or traveling to the hospital. Use Teams messages or email to reach me. If you need to talk, we’ll set up a time to Teams videoconf.
• Sunday is Mother’s day (in the US).

Token opportunities

Academic/Scholarly

• Sunday, 2024-05-12, time 7pm, location probably 3820. Mentor Session. Final mentor session! (Review for SoLA 5) Queue and Eh.

Cultural

• Most days, 2024-04-xx and 2024-05-xx, 11am-6pm, Grinnell College Museum of Art. BAX 2024. Shouldn’t it be BAE?
• Friday, 2024-05-10, 4:00–5:00pm, HSSC N1170. Middle of Everywhere. (Maybe)

Peer

Wellness

• Friday, 2024-05-10, 5:00pm–??:??pm, Merrill Park West. CS Picnic!

Misc

Upcoming work

• Friday, 2024-05-10, 11:00pm, Post-reflection for SoLA 4 due.
  • Submit post-reflection on Gradescope
• Sunday, 2024-05-12, 11:00pm, Redo for MP8
  • Submit MP8 redo on Gradescope
• Monday, 2024-05-13, 4:00pmish, SoLA 5 released.
  • No new topics!
  • A chance to make up any remaining topics.
• Friday, 2024-05-17, 5:00pm, Ultimate Redo for everything
  • MPs 1–8
  • SoLA 5

PSA

• Doing anything to excess is potentially harmful. Be moderate in what you do.
• I care about you. Others do, too. Be well.
• Consent is essential (and necessary) but go beyond consent.

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• Doing a study about pair programming.
• Want to interview students who have taken at least CSC-151.
• Trying to improve Grinnell’s CS environment.
• Interviews will be virtual in June.
• Get an amazing gift card for talking about pair programming.
• Plus the opportunity to talk to awesome Grinnell student researchers.

Questions

Administrative

Do we have pre-reflections and post-reflections for SoLA 5?

No.

When will we get SoLA 4 back?

Sunday, I hope.

When will we get MP 9 back?

Sunday, I hope.

When will you send out grade reports?

After SoLA 4 and MP9 are graded.

Probably after any redos are graded.

When will we get other MPs back?

TBD.

What happens if we don’t get an M on MP9

It is highly unlikely that you got under an M on MP9.

Do you care that we forgot to submit one or more of the following: sketch, four images, powerpoint, …?

No. You tried your best.

How do we check tokens?

The magic token fairy (best friends with the magic recursion fairy) has given you enough tokens.

Redos

Misc

A class activity, part 1

Grab white cards. Write things down. Whee!

“The subject matter of this class”

• A story
• Scheme programming, Computational Thinking, Functional Problem Solving, How to build software (testing), General skills, …
• The broad subject matter of the class
  • This is a course intended to help you learn computational thinking, develop problem-solving skills, and introduce you to the functional model of computation/programming.
• Another perspective
  • The 24 LAs
• Other things that aren’t evaluated, but may still be important. (TPS)
  • “My classmates are awesome; I should support them in their activities.”
  • UM : Use Math [+1]
  • If you perservere (sp), you can succeed. And you have support in persevering.
  • How to collaborate in a group (and a pair). It was a good skill to work on.
  • Assigned work actually helps you learn.
  • It’s okay to say “I’m not sure” when someone asks you a question.
  • It’s okay to tell your professor that they failed to teach you anything.
  • Blame your partner.
  • Try hard early on even though you have other chances.
  • It’s more important that you learn something than when you learn it.
  • Thinking on your feet (or behind) is an important skill.
  • Care about each other.
  • Moderation in all ou do.
  • Consent is essential, but insufficient.

EOCEs

• Maddy and I will leave class for this part.
• Do not leave after EOCEs.

Debriefing on various issues.

I’ll close my eyes as you vote on each thing. After we’ve done them all, we’ll discuss them (as time permits).

Should I continue doing Friday PSAs?

• Yes, definitely [20]
• No, please stop [ 0]
• No strong opinion [ 0]

How useful were the Teams recordings?

• Essential [ 2]
• Useful [ 3]
• I didn’t use them, but I’m glad you made them [13]
• I’d prefer you didn’t record class [ 0]
• No preference [ 1]

Was “Sam says stop here” on the labs a good thing?

• Yes, in general [17]
• No, in general [ 1]
• No strong opinion [ 2]

Did Sam spend too much time on the pre-lab discussion?

• Yes, in general [ 6]
• No, in general [ 6]
• No strong opinion [ 9]

Final project - Was it a good capstone to the class?

• Went well/yes [15]
• Didn’t go well/no [ 1]
• No opinion [ 4]

We needed to spend more time on how to treat your partner appropriately. (Everyone but the Maddy closes their eyes for this.)

• Yes [ 3]
• No [ 6]
• No strong opinion [11]

What did you think about the assorted greetings on the email messages?

• Great [18]
• Annoying [ 0]
• There were greetings on email messages? [ 1]
• No opinion [ 1]

A class activity, part 2

Not documented because Sam wants it to be a surprise.

Final thoughts

Not documented because Sam wants it to be a surprise.