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CMU 15-539: Computer Science Pedagogy, Fall 2017
Week8 Team Reports

Critical Path Student Teams

Backend

Items Completed

• Deployed API
• Added registration code
• Uploaded backend media

Upcoming Items

• Investigate LMSs

UX Design

Items Completed

• Alpha interactive and styled version of the IDE has been passed off to Frontend
• Have built the first prototypes of a classroom experience
• Have built the first prototypes of the student portal
• Includes a “current day” view
• Includes a course map
• Includes a navigation for gradebook
• Met with marketing and got advice on style going forward

Upcoming Items

• Go over all the designs and give feedback for visual consistency
• Send current IDE Design to Marketing
• Iterate on the deliverable designs

Frontend/UX Implementation

Items Completed

• IDE v0.1.1 release at ide.cmu-cs-academy.com
• Core IDE components
  • Text editor using ACE Editor
  • Canvas with full animation framework support (lacks app.title and app.author)
  • Console output with interactive shell input
• Registration page
• Sign in page
• Save, Save As, and Load via the File Storage service
• Demo of the lesson navigation components (static data currently)
• Github v0.1.1 release
• Code review of Register Page
• Code review of Navigation
• Removed sonarlint from Travis build
• Conflicts with eslint, which is more important for conformance.
• Corrected eslint setup

Upcoming Items

• Complete initial Editor styling
• Identify the future Ace editor team.
• Complete testing framework
• Issues:
• Implement local storage migrations in redux persist
• Browsers unintentionally persist form state (autofill)
• Auto saving
• Add title and author functionality
• Handle File Storage errors cleanly
• Run linter

CS1: Scope+Sequence; Content

See class homeworks.

Critical Path Internal/Staff Teams

Autograder

Items Completed

• Completed mid-semester deliverable
• Draft of pre-alpha animation autograder
  • Includes implementation notes
• Autograding approaches document

Upcoming Items

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

Graphics/Animation Framework

Items Completed

• Bug fixes
• Documentation
• Initial release

DevOps

Items Completed

• Discussed the need for browser testing. Supporting schools means supporting
  all operating systems, and legacy browsers.
  • Automation is key here, the eng hours it would take to do manual tests
    like this would be a severe drain.
• ES Lint is now configured in the frontend repo, before it was not examining
  all files
• SonarLint for JS and ES Lint can conflict, and SonarLint is not providing
  much benefit.
  • We will remove SonarLint from conformance tests/CI, so it does not have
    to pass to submit
  • We will leave SonarLint available as a script, so that it can still be
    used by conscientious devs to find non-style related bugs

Upcoming Items

• Remove SonarLint from frontend Travis CI
• Look into logging services/frameworks

Grading

Items Completed

• Graded homework 6
• Graded mid semester deliverables
• Effort based student grades
• Mid semester grades

Upcoming Items

• Grade homework 9

Outreach Management

Items Completed

• went on two high school visits this week: Taylor Allderdice and PPS Sci Tech
• got some really great insights and notes from teachers

Upcoming Items

• set up relationship with Winchester Thurston
• start talking to teachers about Professional Development and got some insights there

Additional High-Priority Student Teams

Textbook

Items Completed

• Finalize gitbook and Jupyter implementations
• Toolchain Competetive Analysis
• Team Advertising/Filtering
• Presentation
• Midsemester report
• Finalize decision on software

Upcoming Items

• Meet with accessibility on our textbook implementation
• Begin work on the decided software

Accessibility

Items Completed

• Finalized mid-semester deliverable
• Tested new tool for automatic accessibility analysis of HTML files

Upcoming Items

• Meet with front end team to discuss accessibility concerns and review process
• Meet with UX design team to go over accessibility requirements

Video Team

Items Completed

• Recorded and edited a demo video with an overlayed speaker video
• Recorded and edited a demo video with a green screen
• Complete the midsemester report

Upcoming Items

• Figure out password issues in embedded Vimeo videos
• Implement quiz checkpoints for the frontend video component
• Decide on a microphone
• Further competitive analysis
• Design title and end screens

Extended Framework

Items Completed

• Pivot based on deliverable draft feedback from last Thursday
• Cost is a big concern - we really need free APIs, or at a minimum
  open source libraries that we can host ourselves
• IDE integration is better than something that is cool in standard Python.
  Switch focus to Brython and/or JS.
• Found a (free) webkit speech to text setup to use in place of
  third-party APIs.
• Found a free iTunes API, was able to use that from JavaScript to
  get some results
• Worked with the bing image search API from Brython. Using the IDE,
  canvas integration was fairly simple.

Upcoming Items

• Work on JS-Brython integration
• Move iTunes to Brython

Media Team

Items Completed

• Cleaned up the media shared Google drive
• Finished the mid-semester deliverable
• Added media content from Scratch to our own media collection
  • Includes many sprites, backgrounds, and sounds in addition to what we already had

Upcoming Items

• Research similar projects to Scratch to see if there are other sources of media well-suited for our target projects and demographic that we may be missing

CS Pedagogy/Competitive Analysis

Items Completed

• Rubric Created
• All information so far compiled into central hub

Upcoming Items

• Compile more competitive analysis / pedagogy
• Find more ways to integrate this into the Design
• Picking out important pedagogy / features