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CMU 15-539: Computer Science Pedagogy, Fall 2017
Week4 Team Reports

Critical Path Student Teams

Backend

Items Completed This Week

• Authentication proposal
• Serverside File API Spec
• Python wrapper for AWS S3
• Repo setup + Dev ops in place
• User + token API spec
• Validation + routes for file api in repo
• User schemas added to model.py

Upcoming Items

• Authorization proposal
• User routes added to code base
• Implement authentication
• JS client for file api
• Implement file api

UX Design

Items Remaining From Previous Weeks

• Work out relationships with 104 and local teachers

Items Completed This Week

• Mock-ups of IDE done
• User stories for IDE Created
• Split up group into specialized teams

Upcoming Items

• Assigned HW4
  • Specialized by team
• Pizza Party with 104 students to see how they interact with CodeHS, code.org, etc.

Frontend/UX Implementation

Items Remaining From Previous Weeks

• Create a prototype IDE using React
• Identify the future ACE editor team
• Need strong core JS skills

Items Completed This Week

• Dropped ‘UX Implementation’ name in favor of ‘Frontend’
• Split into a critical path subteam and a training subteam
• Released Homework 4
• Training:
  • Redux video tutorial
  • Immutable.js guide
  • React-router guide
  • Deliverable:
  • Multiple choice app from last week with Redux, Immutable, and React-router.
  • Focus on following best practices.
• Prototype implementation:
  • Gradebook
  • Login/create account page
  • Tutorial/lesson plan

Upcoming Items

• Reorganize react-example for clarity
• Create a prototype IDE using the entire stack
• Identify the future ACE editor team
• Need strong core JS skills

CS1: Scope+Sequence; Content

Items Completed This Week

• Completed Homework 3
• Assigned Homework 4

Upcoming Items

• Assign Homework 5

Critical Path Internal/Staff Teams

Autograder

Items Remaining From Previous Weeks

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

Items Completed This Week

• Released Homework 4
• Deep dive into a few CS1 exercises and evaluate our proposed frameworks
• Research competing autograding frameworks
• Implement basic pixel-matching autograding

Upcoming Items

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

Graphics/Animation Framework

Upcoming Items

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

DevOps

Items Remaining From Previous Weeks

• License file (in progress)
• Create conglomerate repo (waiting)
• Richard teaches Scott React
• Decide on an editor for React/JSX

Items Completed This Week

• Write contribution guide
• Created Django Rest Framework
• Added autoformatting and static analysis to react and Django repositories
• (Backend) assigned GitHub issues for tasks, and created projects to track them
• If this works well, we might want to have frontend do it, too
• Created design doc templates

Upcoming Items

• Lots of code review, track common problems

Grading

Items Completed This Week

• Graded homework 2

Upcoming Items

• Grade homework 3

Additional High-Priority Student Teams

Outreach Management

Items Completed This Week

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

Upcoming Items

• Coordinate outreach with Taylor Allderdice
• Manage 4 cases where Act153 clearance is not complete

Graphic Design Team

Items Remaining From Previous Weeks

• Make design guides specific to each team
• Start designing some components (now part of HW4)

Items Completed This Week

• Compiled design requirements from CMU’s marketing document and summarized it for 15-539 internal use
• Created initial visual vocabulary (general to all teams)
• Released HW4

Upcoming Items

• Make design guides specific to each team
• Start designing some components
• Write documentation on suggested file formats for different image types

Textbook

Items Remaining From Previous Weeks

• Schedule a weekly meeting
• Made peer reviewed lessons and preparing to implement them using various tool.

Upcoming Items

• Getting into peer groups for competitive analysis.
• Implement Lessons using previously discussed tools.
• Comprehensive report on dev usability.
• Chapter creation.

Accessibility

Items Completed This Week

• Researched our legal obligations to students with different disabilities
• Provided actionable suggestions on how to improve accessibility for students with those disabilities
• Released HW4
  • Creating a single doc with all of our accessibility guidelines that can be released to other teams
  • Look for new tools that can become part of our workflow that help detect accessibility issues

Upcoming Items

• Decide on some kind of way to actually test our content for accessibility
• Release accessibility guidelines to other teams

Video Team

Items Remaining From Previous Weeks

• Finalize decision for editing software
• Present the SCS Online Teaching Kit to Kosbie (demo + walk-through)

Items Completed This Week

• Set up the SCS online teaching Kit and made a example video using it
• Found a good, free, video editing software

Upcoming Items

• Schedule demo/walk-through of the Teaching Kit
• Plan, record, and edit the full sample video - due in 2 weeks (part of HW4)

Extended Framework

Items Remaining From Previous Weeks

• Schedule a weekly meeting

Items Completed This Week

• Held OH for API’s this monday (9/18). Might hold another next week.
• For hw3 we simplified the application creation but made it so that every submission was an implementation rather than a story board.

Upcoming Items

• Students will get into groups and tutor each other on the API’s they used last week. Those tutored will implement a similar (perhaps simpler) application to that of hw3 with their newly assigned API’s.

Media Team

Items Remaining From Previous Weeks

• Continue to organize our media content (there was a lot of it, needed another week to sift through it all)

Items Completed This Week

• Compiled ~7-8 different collections of sounds and images that fit together coherently, which other teams can readily grab to make lessons, games, etc. (a lot of them are geared towards games)
• Met to discuss how we want to share content with our other teams (thinking shared Google drive for now)
• Released HW4

Upcoming Items

• Finish organizing media content
• Write up a guideline for how our workflow shouldlook
  • How do other teams request media
  • How do we handle those requests

CS Pedagogy/Competitive Analysis

Items Remaining From Previous Weeks

• Research into different tools
• Research into pedagogy papers
• Look for important tidbits to share with rest of class

Items Completed This Week

• Class presentation on Khan academy
• Did initial analysis on most tools
• Completed HW3
• Assigned HW4 (futher competitive analysis, also look into APCS-P content)

Upcoming Items

• Have multiple opinions on each source of competitive analysis
• Come up with snippets of pedagogy to show the class and help give everyone a broader understanding of how cs pedagogy works.
• Over the semester develop a large base of competitive analysis for other programs that do similar things