Overview

• Preliminaries.
  • Admin.
  • Questions.
• Silly demo.
• Debrief on the course.
• Evaluation forms.

Preliminaries

Admin

• Have a great summer.
• If you should choose to partake of block party, please partake responsibly.
• Everyone passes, even MSZ

Questions

Silly demo

GameManager.prototype.addRandomTile

Debrief on the course

Three goals for the course

• Prepare Sam's summer research students (or subset thereof)
• Learn some languages related to image making
• Web site development

Questions

Knowing then what you know now, would you still take this course?

• Probably
• But not everyone

Things that were really successful?

• Building on to the original "build a Web site" assignment.
  • Should probably be formalized.
• Range of different languages and things we learned. Cover a large things that are useful.
  • A bit of familiarity with languages
  • We know we can probably teach ourselves these things, but it gave us incentive to do so
• Review of student work.
  • Comments in class
  • Outside of class
• Open-ended assignments was helpful because you could explore different options. Didn't need to accomplish a particular goal.
  • But some people need structured questions
  • Sam should give choices - Here's something for those of you who need structure; Here's the general thing for those who don't
• GitHub is likely to be useful.
  • education.github.com probably lets you sign up for a private account

Things that were less successful?

• 8 a.m.
• No food. Sam classes always have food.
• Need more organization.
  
  • GitHub repo earlier.
  • Assignments posted in easy-to-find locations.
  • Actual readings.
  • Etc.

Knowing what you know now, how would you structure the class differently in terms of topics?

• Maybe do D3, a Javascript data visualization stuff language (Data-Driven Documents)
• More database. Maybe earlier.
• Separate Processing and Web development courses
• Drop Postscript or at least show us cool things we can do.
• Disect a Web site and then rebuild and then discuss the IP (intellectual property, not Internet protocol) issues of having done so

Other changes you would make?

• Some large group assignment that involves branching and such.
• Emphasize portfolio building.
• Competition with a pitch.
• Capstone project.
• More lectures (or less lectures, more reading)

Evaluation forms