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CMU 15-539: Computer Science Pedagogy, Fall 2017
Week9 Team Reports

Backend

Items Completed

• Launched backend and frontend infrastructure for Teknowledge
• Added registration code
• Added deployment documentation
• Added username token route
• Tested upload files with media

Upcoming Items

• Setup live test infrastructure
• Edit user information
• logging
• LMSs

UX Design

Upcoming Items

• Update the IDE
• Rework play and pause buttons
• Consider collapse of side bar
• Add media gallery
• Rework “reference” section
• Produce canonical multiple choice, code tracing, matching, and debugging exercises for frontend
• Update student portal given Kosbie’s feedback
• Review designs and update for consistency
• Meet with CS1 Content creators to give feedback

Frontend/UX Implementation

Items Completed

• Frontend v0.2.0-alpha.0-4 release notes
• Additions
  • CMU Graphics v3d with documentation
  • End User License Agreement on sign in
  • Credits page at /about
  • Add required registration code for new account creation
  • Auto save on run #31
• Fixes
  • Handle FileStorage upload errors #21
  • Undesirable form state persistence #59
  • Client-side local storage state migrations #63
  • Clear shell output on run #81
• Forced ACE editor
• Currently handled by Lizzy

Upcoming Items

• Re-lint frontend repository
• Fix password validation #89
• Look into Selenium for automated browser testing

CS1: Scope+Sequence; Content

See class homeworks.

Autograder

On hold until futher notice.

Graphics/Animation Framework

Items Completed

• Finalized animation framework

DevOps

Items Completed

• DevOps will expand from the infrastructure domain into CS Content
  • Content created by students will be reviewed by DevOps for quality and
    structure
• Started looking into web testing frameworks and has assigned
  a frontend member to dive deeper
  • Selenium looks promising
• Looked into logging solutions, but needs more information to make
  a final decision
  • CloudWatch does most of what we need: logs and simple metrics.
    Data Dog gets a lot of great reviews for fine-grained metrics, and also
    integrates CloudWatch into its dashboard. It’s a “want” though, not
    a need.
  • What kind of compliance are we looking at? This
    matrix is for colleges.
    Other than FERPA, I’m not sure what matters for high school. I found
    these vague
    guidelines
    on the department of education website, but that’s it.
  • Client-side is a little tricky. We might be better off just logging
    events, rather than sending logs.
    • log4javascript or the tiny tattletale might work with a bridge,
      but there is no “real” solution
    • Google Analytics is a weird but free solution

Upcoming Items

• Finalize logging architecture
  • Discuss compliance requirements and metric gathering with Koz

Grading

Upcoming Items

• Grade homework 9

Outreach Management

Upcoming Items

• Schedule one big meeting for everyone who has gone to a school
• Go visit on Thursday so everyone can get a visit in
• PD for teachers starts November 13th
• Think about how to do PD for remote teachers

Accessibility

Upcoming Items

• Review frontend’s IDE prototype
• Review textbook demo
• Work on getting some form of automated accessibility testing integrated into our workflow
  • Will try to use a tool called pa11y this week

Video Team

Items Completed

• Scheduled recording session to create a demo green-screen video with the 539 IDE
• Planned out how to incorporate hand-drawings in videos

Upcoming Items

• Record and edit the demo video, with recording instructions
• Figure out password issues in embedded Vimeo videos
• Implement quiz checkpoints for the frontend video component
• Give a microphone recommendation