Lecture 3 - Announcements

Discord server is up; invite link is on the Canvas Syllabus page. Feel free to join up and ask questions in q-and-a, post memes in off-topic, and so on. Rules:

• Your server nickname should be your real (preferred) name
• Your avatar image should be appropriate

Panopto: videos are now also available on Panopto (if you want to avoid YouTube ads).

• Here’s the link to a Panopto folder with all the videos: https://wwu.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Sessions/List.aspx?folderID=64b5c583-f8cd-4574-82d9-b265016ef953.
• The above link is also on the course webpage just above the Schedule table.
• The links within the Schedule Table still go to YouTube (should I change this?)

Week 1 Survey: posted yesterday, due tonight. Future weekly surveys will be due Tuesday nights. They’re quick, and worth one point in the individual exercises category.

Quiz 0 is “graded” - please log into gradescope to see your score.

Quiz 1 on Friday! Quiz 0 gave you a sense of what to expect.

• Exercises and Problems are your study tools. Make sure you can do them yourself!

A1 is out today!

• It’s big. It’s bad. It’s Due Friday, January 31st.

  • That’s a long time from now, so you don’t need to think about it for a while, right?

  • Nope:

• You are required to make at least one git commit with nontrivial progress on each of at least three separate days between now and the deadline.

• Direct quotes from A1 Survey, Fall 2020:

  "I was severely mistaken in thinking that I'd be able to complete this
  assignment in an afternoon."
  
  "I really enjoyed it. Wish I'd started earlier so I didn't feel rushed."
  
  "Game plan on the writeup was super helpful. Definitely decreased stress
  overall"
  
  "This was a lot harder than expected and I wish I had taken it more
  seriously at the start."
  
  "I definitely think the game plan for the assignment was great, it
  really helped me stay on track and complete the assignment in a timely
  manner. "
  
  "I appreciated the timeline in the A1 document as it helped to not only
  keep me on track time-wise, but also broke the assignment into much
  more manageable parts."
  
  "Should have start earlier though."
  
  "I should've gotten more done sooner so that I could've maybe fixed the
  things I couldn't figure out and not been scrambling"
  
  ... and so on

• Direct quotes from A1 Survey Spring 2022, after I showed them the Fall 2020 quotes:

  "I started later than I should have"
  
  "I would've had a better understanding of this project if I started 
  this project earlier and utilizied more resources the school has to
  offer (tutoring, office hours, etc.)"
  
  "Time management was the main issue here"
  
  "I definitely should have started earlier"
  
  "the game plan was very helpful until i fell behind it, that was my
  ault though if i had stuck to it strictly I would have finished 
  entirely in time"
  
  "The game plan was super helpful for staying on top of the
  assignment, I certainly would've procrastinated it had the game 
  plan not been there."
  
  "Here's a good quote for your announcements slide to show future
  students: "The game plan really kept me on track. I would've been
  way behind without it. I'm glad I started this project extremel 
  early!""
  
  "I wish I had kept up with the gameplan"
  
  ...and so on

• Here’s Spring 23:

  "I definetely procrastinated until the last week to complete it and I wish I hadn't, was a lot more stressful than it had to be."
  
  "I'm glad I started early"
  
  "...much harder than I thought"
  
  "THIS WAS SO MUCH FUN!!!!!"
  
  "Advice for future students: Buffer in more time than you'd expect for mistakes so small they take hours to find... and don't be afraid to use provided resources (esp. office hours)."

Want to talk about Quiz 0?