Overview

• Preliminaries.
  • Admin.
  • Questions.
• Some questions on the course.
• Some things you didn't learn.
• Some final thoughts.

Preliminaries

Admin

• Cinnamon roles!
• Upcoming extra credit opportunities:
  • CS Table Friday: The Reactive Manifesto
  • G Tones Saturday at 4
• Sam will try to get you tentative grade info by Tuesday a.m.

Questions on the Exam

_What should we do with the parseArray code on Q4?

Delete it?

What if we want to use it?

Fine. But do so at your own risk.

Send email!

Some questions on the course

What's something that went well?

• Snarky banter.
• Explain well one-on-one
• Adapt when things are unreasonable
• Available via email

Large scale things that went wrong

• Not enough labs
  • Solution: Winter break spent writing the remaining labs/readings
  • Solution: Daily writeups
• Grading (not enough)
  • Solution: ML and AK
• No followup on Android
  • Solution: More labs, more resources
  • Or maybe not the right thing to do; Perhaps too much overhead
• Ushahidi go boom
  • Solution: Rewriting code over break

Other things that I can improve

• Make the location of things clearer.
• Add a better search function.
• Make sure the links in the schedule work
• More individual assignments other than exams
  • Maybe alternate weeks group/individual
• Less work?
• Make the homework less time consuming
  • Ask the mentor and the prof for more help
• Answer more email at 10:30 pm
• On labs ... more start from scratch
  • Or perhaps on homework
  • Or perhaps more "Design in small group report to large group"
• Class mentor needs to indicate that even though Sam will insult you ruthlessly, he'll probably also give you helpful comments
  • Or use a plant to help show this
• More time early on on Java syntax would be helpful, including differences from C.
• Make this a five credit, five day per week class?
• Be more efficient with the time we have.
  • Leave the events on the whiteboard, but don't discuss?
• More time in thinking as an object-oriented programmer
  • Or at least an assignment or two
• More of the traditional reading + lab approach
• Clear indication of what is where in the book
  • And find good Web resources as an alternative [student assignment]
• Be a little nicer
• Test the assignments
• Usahidi and Android
  • Ushahidi is interseting
  • Android is a really cool concept, but may be too much for 207
    • May be too much for 207

Anything else you want me to know about your experience in the course

Some things left uncovered

Java

OOP

Other

Some final thoughts