EBoard 33: Project Kickoff (Section 2)

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Approximate optimistic overview

• Administrative stuff
• Questions! (admin)
• About the project
• Questions! (project)
• Group formation
• Work time
• Quiz!

Administrative stuff

Introductory notes

• Please please please submit mentor and evening tutor evaluations.
  • https://grinnell.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1YUJY7nJqaj9AtU
  • A token for everyone if at least 30 people fill it out by the end of today.
• Reminder that we’ll have propsies on Friday.
• I’m visiting a class on Thursday, so office hours will only be 10:00–10:45.
• I’ll be guest teaching classes next Tuesday, so office hours will only be 8:30–9:45.
• If you’d like to meet to me at other times, let me know.

Upcoming activities

Scholarly

• Thursday, 24 April 2025, 4pm, HSSC 2231. Annual McKibben Lecture: Love in a Time of Bankruptcy: Calculations in Catullus
• Tuesday, 29 April 2025, noon–1pm, White PDR. CS Table: ???

Artistic

• Through this afternoon. Bucksbaum Basement. Art Exhibit: If you woke up and you were a ghoti, what would you do?

Multicultural

• Wednesday, 23 April 2025, 4:15 p.m., HSSC S1325. Holocaust Memorial Day Program with Andre Holtan
• Friday, 25 April 2025, 4:00–5:00 p.m., HSSC N1170 (Global Living Room). Middle of Everywhere: Road Trip Around Spain
• Sunday, 27 April 2025, 1:00–8:30 p.m., Cleveland Beach. (Maybe.) Holi

Peer

Musical, theatric, sporting, and academic events involving this section’s students are welcome.

• Read articles by your fellow CSC-151 students and comment on them online.
• Saturday, 25 April 2025, Noon, Baseball field. Baseball vs. Ripon
• Saturday, 25 April 2025, 2:30 p.m., Baseball field. Baseball vs. Ripon
• Sunday, 26 April 2025, Noon, Baseball field. Baseball vs. Ripon

Wellness

• Where and when they occur. Badminton Club, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, _HIIT Training, Nerf at Noyce, Yoga.
• Thursday, 24 April 2025. 4:30–6:30 p.m., Off Campus. Forest Bathing.
  • Sign ups are required.
• Tuesday, 29 April 2025, 5:00–6:00 p.m., HSSC Atrium. Therapy Dogs.
• Tuesday, 29 April 2025, 7:15–8:15 p.m., HSSC Atrium. Therapy Dogs.

Misc

• Wednesday, 23 April 2025, Noon–1:00 p.m., HSSC A2231 (Auditorium) Community Forum
  • “Weekly discussion on legal protections and recourse on issues that higher education and Grinnell College face.”
  • Also online.
  • This week: Disability and Accessibility
• Sunday, 27 April 2025, 7:30–8:30 p.m., Science 3819. Mentor Session: Quizzes and Projects
• Tuesday, 29 April 2025, 7:00–8:00 p.m., Science 3820. Mentor Session: Quizzes

Other good things

These do not earn tokens, but are worth your consideration.

• Saturday, 25 April 2025, 1pm, Softball field. Softball vs. Cornell_
• Saturday, 25 April 2025, 3:30 p.m., Softball field. Softball vs. Cornell_

Upcoming work

• Wednesday, 23 April 2025
  • Quiz: Data abstraction / structs
  • Makeup quiz: Dictionaries
  • Makeup quiz: Diagramming structures (paper only)
  • Don’t forget that you can bring a page of hand-written notes for each quiz.
• Thursday, 24 April 2025
  • No lab writeup from Wednesday
  • Reading:
    • Binary trees
    • Submit reading response for binary trees reading on Gradescope
  • SoLA 3 due
    • Topics from phase one: Decomposition, Primitive types, Collaboration, Lambda-free anonymous procedures (aka cut and compose)
    • Topics from phase two: Conditionals, Documentation, Testing, Lists (and “the big three”), Program Style, Ethical Considerations
    • Topics from phrase three you’ve done quizzes on: List recursion, Local bindings
    • New topics from phase three: Numeric recursion, Vectors, Randomness
• Friday, 25 April 2025
  • Submit pre-reflection for MP9 on Gradescope
• Sunday, 27 April 2025
  • Submit Friday’s lab on Gradescope
  • Readings
    • Tree recursion
    • Binary search trees
    • Submit reading responses on tree recursion on Gradescope
  • Mini-projects!
    • Submit first redo for MP6 on Gradescope
    • Submit second redo for MP4 on Gradescope
    • Submit second redo for MP5 on Gradescope
• Wednesday, 30 April 2025
  • Our last quiz day!
  • Quiz: Higher-order programming
  • Makeup quiz: Data abstraction
  • Makeup quiz: Diagramming structures (paper only)
  • Don’t forget that you can bring a page of hand-written notes for each quiz.
• Sunday, 4 May 2025
  • Submit first redo for MP7 on Gradescope
• Friday, 9 May 2025
  • Submit post-reflection for MP9 on Gradescope
• Friday, 16 May 2025
  • Submit final redo for MP1 on Gradescope
  • Submit final redo for MP2 on Gradescope
  • Submit final redo for MP3 on Gradescope
  • Submit final redo for MP4 on Gradescope
  • Submit final redo for MP5 on Gradescope

Questions

Are SoLAs still due Thursday?

Yes.

Is Sam fixing the redo grades?

He hopes to.

Should we submit a regrade request?

After the next grade report comes out if Sam hasn’t fixed it by then.

Administrative

About the project

Philosophical underpining

• We can use our computing skills to understand the world.
• We can use our ability to write programs that make/manipulate images to better understand artworks.
• By making computer-based “sketches” of variants of an artwork, we can better understand the artist’s intent / decisions.

Details

• You are going to write programs that create variants of a work of art.
• By making variants, you will (hopefully) understand design decisions better.
• We’ll be using the artwork of Hilma af Klint.

Expectations

• Write (image-series n width height), makes nth image in a series of variants of whatever image you selected.
  • n is an exact integer between 0 (inclusive) and 1000 (exclusive)
• With at least two recursive procedures.
• Using at least two image-making and image-manipulation techniques.
• Write about what you’ve done and what you’ve learned.
• Limit your time.
  • No fewer than five hours (including in-class time) per person.
  • No more than ten hours per person.
  • The time making the presentation counts.
  • The time writing about your code counts.
• Working in a group (between one and four people).
• Five-minute presentation in front of the class (and visitors) in week 14 (Wednesday).
• The post-reflection is REQUIRED.

Questions and Clarifications

Can we work with someone in another section?

No.

How much fun is this mini project.

“Soooo fun.”

Project skills

TPS: What are characteristics you’d like at least one team member to have?

Some group members (at least one)

• Leader/Manager: Able to herd cats. (Aka “manage a group of Grinnellians”.) [YELLOW]
  • Decisive.
  • Sets meetings.
  • Keeps people on task.
  • Keeps people moving forward.
• Mediator
• Debugging / verifier / tester. [BLUE]
• Understands abstract art.
• Communicator: Will lead the making of the presentation.[GREEN]
• Writer: Will lead the writing of the key parts.
• Big picture person for code design
• Stylist/Documenter. [RED]
• Passionate coder.
• Mathemagician [WHITE]
• Simplifier. Can make complex code simpler.
• Artist. Able to sketch the thing.
• Idea generator. [PURPLE]

All group members

• Cooperative.
• Responsive.
• Hard-working.
• Accountable.
• Capable.
• Proactive. Do your work on time or let people know in advance that you’re screwing up.
• Focused.
• Coder
• Professionalism
• Patient.

No group members

• Sarcastic.

Group formation

Please grab the cards that represent your skills.

• White:
• Red:
• Yellow:
• Green:
• Blue:
• Purple:

Try to form a group with five or six cards.

Work time

We’ll also have work time next Wednesday.

Initial tasks:

• Make sure you have each others’ contact info.
• Set up meeting times.
• Pick a team name.
• Look through af Klint’s work (hardcopy, online) to see if there are some that speak to you (or at least that you want to do).
• Start considering variations you might make.
• Start considering how you might achieve different parts of the image.

Quiz

• Data abstraction
• Dictionaries
• Diagraming structures