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CMU 15-539: Computer Science Pedagogy, Fall 2017
Week7 Team Reports

Critical Path Student Teams

Backend

Items Completed

• Remove directories after file storage tests run
• Custom enum type field
• Implement permissions

Upcoming Items

• Upload backend media
• Release and create live version of file api

UX Design

Items Completed

• Remy made a color palette and was onboarded to UX Design
• We combined Lesson Plan Team and Exercise Team -> Lexercise Team
• They have set deliverables and will have first hi-fidelity prototypes by Sunday 10/15
• We tabled Teacher Portal and moved one student to the Student Portal Team
• The Student Portal Team has made great progress toward hi-fidelity mock-ups
• We have gone through a couple iterations with Professor Kosbie using 3 different clickable prototypes
• The IDE team finalized animations and interactions
• We discussed and are determining our vocabulary and the granularity of the designs

Upcoming Items

• Meet with marketing
• Lexercise and Student Portal complete their hi-fidelity mock-up
• More hard-core testing of the IDE

Frontend/UX Implementation

Items Remaining

• Identify the future ACE editor team

Items Completed

• New student joined Frontend from UX Design
• Strong skills in CSS layout and styling
• Initial prototype Editor complete
• Features:
  • Full animation framework integration
  • Mouse and key bugs from last week fixed
  • Full backend API integration (of existing API’s)
  • Added File Storage this week
  • Session persistence
  • Saves entire state tree to browser local storage using redux-persist
  • Environment variable configuration using dotenv
• Register Page
• Added client-side field validation
• Added API error handling
• Refactored into frontend repository
• Navigation
• Core functionality completed
• Refactored into frontend repository
• SCSS preprocessing added
• Testing framework (in progress)
• Working out a few more bugs

Upcoming Items

• Code review Register Page
• Code review Navigation
• Improve test coverage of all components (blocked by testing framework completion)
• Complete initial Editor styling
• Identify the future Ace editor team.
• Complete testing framework
• Identify the future ACE editor team

CS1: Scope+Sequence; Content

See class homeworks.

Critical Path Internal/Staff Teams

Autograder

Items Completed

• Homework 6
• Main focus on designed example exercises to be autograded.
• Stopped work on prototype autograders to wait for Prof. Kosbie to join the team.

Upcoming Items

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

Graphics/Animation Framework

Items Completed

• Reviewed 2 rounds of animation feedback
• Fixed numerous bugs
• Added features such as groups, etc.

Upcoming Items

• Release alpha version
• Decide on app versus global

DevOps

Items Completed

• Slow week, existing tasks are low priority, and dev ops are getting fairly
  stable

Upcoming Items

• Look into logging service for front end
• Look into custom SonarPython rules (e.g. should we enforce class-based views rather than function-based?)

Grading

Items Completed

• Graded homework 5

Upcoming Items

• Grade homework 6

Outreach Management

Items Completed

• We visited the Ellis School
• Drafted a protocol for taking notes at school visits
• Drafted a protocol for interviewing teachers

Upcoming Items

• Review and use these protocols in future visits
• Set up visits with these schools and Winchester Thurston

Additional High-Priority Student Teams

Textbook

Items Completed

• Chapter Demo implementation with Runestone interactive
• Rough draft of toolchain competitive analysis
• Choice of top three textbook software (Runestone, Jupyter, Gitbooks)
• Rough draft presentation

Upcoming Items

• Finalize Jupyter and Gitbook implementation of lessons
• Finalize midterm report
• Figure out if we should go with our top choice or forgo it for a solid static renderer and let the code be done by the website

Accessibility

Items Completed

• Reviewed a prototype of the IDE provided by the UX team to ensure it met accessibility standards
  • Overall strong feedback
  • Font sizes should be larger
  • Users should be able to navigate page using keyboard actions such as using the ‘tab’ key

Upcoming Items

• Compile documentation for mid-semester deliverable

Video Team

Items Remaining

• Figure out password issues in embedded Vimeo videos

Items Completed

• Edited the full (code-only) demo video
• Added basic animations to the demo video
• Planned out the next two sample videos (basic speaker video, and green-screen speaker video)

Upcoming Items

• Record and edit the next two demo videos
• Complete the mid semester report
• Figure out password issues in embedded Vimeo videos
• Implement quiz checkpoints for the frontend video component

Extended Framework

Items Completed

• Clarified direction of the team
  • Put less emphasis on building cool lessons. We need examples of API
    usage, but not necessarily lessons.
  • Put more emphasis on re-use of API
    • Maybe wrapping, but potentially just boilerplate that CS content can
      use.
  • Created mid-semester deliverable to represent these goals
• Established important features of APIs we had been overlooking
  • Cost-sensitivity - Even APIs with a “free” tier may not be usable for
    us. We could look into Open Source projects that we can run on our own
    servers.
  • IDE compatibility - As long as it can be used in the IDE, it’s fair game.
    So JS is allowable, and python is restricted to Brython.
  • Key management - If we can’t force students to sign up for developer
    accounts, we probably need to use one key server-side.

Upcoming Items

• Get APIs students been using with Python working in the IDE
• Ensure progress is being made (set intermediate deadlines)

Media Team

Items Completed

• Added some new media to our Google Drive
• Researched some methods for media distribution
  • Easiest to support is probably to just use s3 and integrate media storage and distribution with existing file storage API created by backend

Upcoming Items

• Work with backend to create demo of media storage and distribution
• Compile all necessary documentation for mid semester deliverable

CS Pedagogy/Competitive Analysis

Items Completed

• Comp Analysis Rubric
• Currently combining it into a google doc. Using for next steps and making overall paper
• Talked about good rubric qualities
• Pedagogy
• Analyzed how college board approves classes.
• Researched math standards for 8th grade and 9th grade 2012
• Looked at gaming and teaching CS

Upcoming Items

• Mid semester deliverable