Held: Friday, 9 May 2014

Back to Outline 55 - Course Evaluation.

Summary

We conclude the course by helping you get ready for the final.

Related Pages

• EBoard 56 (Source 56) (HTML 56) (PDF 56)

Overview

• Some questions on the course.
• Some things you didn't learn.
• Preparing for the final.

Administrivia

• Notes on both finals appear in yesterday's eboard.

Upcoming Work

• Fill in the final preference sheet by Monday.

Extra Credit

• CS table Friday: Casual conversation.
• Conference track meet Friday and Saturday. NBB runs at 4:05 and 5:10.
• Listen to EB's radio show on KDIC Friday at 5pm.
• Listen to DNP guest star on some radio show Friday at 11pm.

Some questions on the course

• What's something I did well?
• Two things I know I did poorly:
  • Did not grade enough
  • Did not have enough labs
• What else should I improve?
• What else do you want me to know about your experience in the course?

Some things you didn't learn

• Students often put "proficient in Java" on their resumes.
• But you're not. It takes a few years of thinking in Java to be proficient.
• And we also don't cover the full language.
• Nor do we give you deep experience with OOP.
• So maybe you want to take some time and learn on your own

Uncovered (or insufficiently covered) OOP

• More practice with designing objects
• More practice with inheritance
• Key design patterns, including
  • Listeners (is that a pattern)?
  • Flyweights

Uncovered Java

• Protection levels
• Swing and other GUI toolkits (I foget what's in Java 8)
• More of the standard utilities
• More event-driven approaches

Uncovered Misc

• Branching in git
• Rearranging commits ("rebasing") in git
• Test suites
• Other build approaches for Java

Preparing for the Final

• Likely to focus more on end-of-semester stuff.
• Do the practice final.
• Look at the take-home final (maybe even sketch answers).
• Make sure that you learn the details of the big data structures.
  • Hash tables.
  • Heaps.
  • Various kinds of lists, including skip lists.
  • BSTs.
• Think about questions I tend to ask (in class, on exams, etc.).
• We can look at a few problems if you'd like.