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CMU 15-539: Computer Science Pedagogy, Fall 2017
Week3 Team Reports

Critical Path Student Teams

Backend

Items Completed This Week

• Switched to Django instead of Java
• Released Homework 3
• Working on File API Spec
• Working on Authentication
• Working on Python wrapper for AWS S3
• Working on Dev ops for backend

Upcoming Items

• Review meetings for homework 3 to ensure high quality code
• Merge independent tasks from homework 3 into a working file service
• Flush out authentication service
• Start on authorization service

UX Design

Items Remaining From Week 2

• Split group into teams -> pushed until after we get first mock-ups of IDE

Items Completed This Week

• Reviewed IDE prototypes critique style
• Released Homework 3
  • User desire post-it note generating session
  • Answer important design decision questions about IDE
  • Create first mock-ups of running code in the IDE using online tool

Upcoming Items

• Converge on user desires
• Converge on IDE designs as proposals
• Gain intuition and experience from 104 students, high school students, and Professor Kosbie

Frontend/UX Implementation

Items Completed This Week

• Interactive Bootstrap lecture on Tuesday
• Built a clone of Amazon.com
• Released hw3
• Go to React + Redux intro session (Friday 9/15)
• Set up Sublime Text for React development
• Do the React tutorial
• Watch the Redux intro course and provide proof of completion
• Create a React + Redux multiple choice application. Work with the following components:
  • radio button, option text, option (which is composed of a radio button and an option text component), question statement, question, section of questions, paginated sections
• Delivery on Autolab and by submitting a PR to the uxi-hw3 repo

Upcoming Items

• Curated React presentation for Prof. Kosbie
• Create a prototype IDE using React
• Identify the future ACE editor team
• Need strong core JS skills

CS1: Scope+Sequence; Content

Items Completed This Week

• Complete Homework 2
• Assign Homework 3

Upcoming Items

• Assign homework 4

Critical Path Internal/Staff Teams

Autograder

Items Completed This Week

• Performed high-level analysis on Autograding strategies
• Pixel based, object tree based, and goal-based
• Released Homework 3
• Come up with an exemplar exercise to evaluate Autograding strategies

Upcoming Items

• Have ‘blue sky’ design meeting with Prof. Kosbie

Graphics/Animation Framework

Items Completed This Week

• Review feedback from hw 1

Upcoming Items

• Build object based animation framework based off of feedback from hw1

DevOps

Items Remaining From Week 2

• License file (in progress)
• Create conglomerate repo (waiting)
• Write contribution guide (waiting)

Items Completed This Week

• Github onboarding
• Slack onboarding
• Decided not to use git hooks, check linting serverside via Travis.
• Decided on Python3 for use with Django
• Decided Python3 Ops: PEP8 linter, yapf auto-formatter, virtualenv for management
• Decided on a code review process (2 per at least)
• Decided to look for static analysis tools
• React & friends example Repo
• Python (targeted towards exercises, not server)

Upcoming Items

• Add autoformatting and static analysis to react example repo
• Add autoformatting and static analysis to python example repo
• Create django example repo
• Decide on an editor for React/JSX

Grading

Items Completed This Week

• Graded homework 1

Upcoming Items

• Grade homework 2

Additional High-Priority Student Teams

Outreach Management

Upcoming Items

• Send Act153 Private Instructor form to act153@andrew.cmu.edu

Graphic Design Team

Items Completed This Week

• Met with CMU marketing, learned about branding requirements/flexibility
• Released Homework 3
• Make initial design guidelines (general to all teams)
• Review CMU’s marketing document, and summarize it for 15-539 internal use

Upcoming Items

• Make design guides specific to each team
• Start designing some components

Textbook

Items Completed This Week

• Looked into free services for texbooks
• Examined tools discussed (brainstormed) earlier
• Homework 3:
  • Use a tool described in hw2 to construct a lesson detailing a simple programming/cs concept
  • Students describe their experience using said tools and developer support

Upcoming Items

• Offline Generation (technically in week 2 but it was not assigned for homework, it perhaps should be left for ~2 weeks from now.
• Grade homework 2
• Merging into teams of two to do small competititve analysis bewteen two tools
• Refine a lesson template for standard chapter and concept presentation (also probably not for week 3)

Accessibility

Items Completed This Week

• Released Homework 3
  • Assigned each student a disability to research
  • Compile a list of our obligations to students with that specific disability
  • Give actionable feedback for how we can improve our content so it can be used by people witht that disability
• Studied legal guidelines for dealing with disabilities such as ADA, IDEA, etc.
• Created some guidelines for how we should be designing our content to maximize accessibility

Upcoming Items

• Make sure we have someone from CMU’s legal team make sure our findings are correct and that we satisfy all our legal obligations to students with disabilities
• Once all guidelines for accessibility have been compiled present them to other teams

Video Team

Items Completed This Week

• Ideation and analyzing competitors
• Released Homework 3
• Researching options and licensing for video editing softwares
• Ideation specific to content-videos (how similiar/different from 112 videos?)
• Set up the SCS Online Teaching Kit example and demo

Upcoming Items

• Finalize decision for editing software
• Present the SCS Online Teaching Kit to Kosbie (demo + walk-through) - next week
• Start creating the full sample video - due in 3 weeks

Extended Framework

Items Completed This Week

• A way for students to submit ideas
• Slack Channel
• Restructure team after changes (we had assigned pairs)
• Homework 3:
  • Using the homework 2 described tool in order to create a small application demonstrating some basic use
  • Describing dev process and integratability of said API/Extended frameworks

Upcoming Items

• Figure out what comes after hw3, uncertain about how we should proceed.
• If possible at least provide a small app in wich to put feature on top for basic testing.

Media Team

Items Completed This Week

• Collected media from different online sources
  • Sprites, backgrounds, sounds, other images, etc.
  • Also collected info about the license that applies to each source of media.
• Released Homework 3
  • Trying to organize all of the media content
  • Asked students to organize media into coherent collections (i.e. sprites, backgrounds, images, etc. that could go well together for a single lesson grouped into a folder)

Upcoming Items

• Finish organizing media content
• Make sure licenses on media are okay for our purposes

CS Pedagogy/Competitive Analysis

Items Completed This Week

• Investigated Khan academy, Codeacademy, books, etc.

Upcoming Items

• Assigned Homework 3 (which involved looking through resources for specific pedagogical features of interested)
• Presentations in class for research so far