Review Badges

Review Badges#

Review After Class#

After each class, you will need to review the day’s material. This includes reviewing prismia chat to see any questions you got wrong and reading the notes. Review activities will help you to reinforce what we do in class and guide you to practice with the most essential skills of this class, they represent the minimum bar for C level work.

2024-09-05#

Activities:

accept this assignment and join the existing team to get access to more features in our course organization.
Post an introduction to your classmates on our discussion forum (include link to your comment in PR comment, must accept above to see)
Read the notes from today’s class carefully
Fill in the first two columns of your KWL chart (content of the PR; named to match the badge name)

2024-09-12#

Activities:

Any steps in a badge marked lab are steps that we are going to focus in on during the next lab time. Remember the goal of lab is to help you complete the work, not add additional work. The lab checkout will include some other tasks and then we will encourage you to work on this badge while we are there to help. Lab checkouts are checked only for completion though, not correctness, so steps of activities that we want you to really think about and revise if incorrect will be in a practice or review badge.

Read the notes. If you have any questions, post an issue on the course website repo.
Using your terminal, download your KWL repo. Include the command used in your badge PR.
Try using setting up git using your favorite IDE or GitHub Desktop. Make a file gitoffline.md and include some notes of how it went. Was it hard? easy? what did you figure out or get stuck on? Is the terminology consistent or does it use different terms?
lab Explore the difference between git add and git commit: try committing and pushing without adding, then add and push without committing. Describe what happens in each case in a file called gitcommit.md. Compare what happens based on what you can see on GitHub and what you can see with git status.

2024-09-12#

Activities:

Any steps in a badge marked lab are steps that we are going to focus in on during the next lab time. Remember the goal of lab is to help you complete the work, not add additional work. The lab checkout will include some other tasks and then we will encourage you to work on this badge while we are there to help. Lab checkouts are checked only for completion though, not correctness, so steps of activities that we want you to really think about and revise if incorrect will be in a practice or review badge.

Read the notes. If you have any questions, post an issue on the course website repo.
Using your terminal, download your KWL repo. Include the command used in your badge PR.
Try using setting up git using your favorite IDE or GitHub Desktop. Make a file gitoffline.md and include some notes of how it went. Was it hard? easy? what did you figure out or get stuck on? Is the terminology consistent or does it use different terms?
lab Explore the difference between git add and git commit: try committing and pushing without adding, then add and push without committing. Describe what happens in each case in a file called gitcommit.md. Compare what happens based on what you can see on GitHub and what you can see with git status.

2024-09-17#

Activities:

Create a merge conflict in your github in class repo and resolve it using your favorite IDE,. Describe how you created it, show the files, and describe how your IDE helps or does not help in ide_merge_conflict.md. Give advice for when you think someone should resolve a merge conflict manually vs using an IDE. (if you do not regulary use an, IDE, try VSCode)
Read more details about git branches(you can also use other resources) add branches.md to your KWL repo and describe how branches work, in your own words. Include one question you have about branches or one scenario you think they could help you with.

2024-09-19#

Activities:

Update your KWL chart with the new items and any learned items.
Clone the course website. Append the commands used and the contents of your fall2024/.git/configto a terminal_review.md (hint: history outputs recent commands and redirects can work with any command, not only echo). Edit the README.md, commit, and try to push the changes. Describe what the error means and which GitHub Collaboration Feature you think would enable you to push? (answer in the terminal_review.md)

2024-09-24#

Activities:

lab Organize the provided messy folder in a Codepsace (details will be provided in lab time). Commit and push the changes. Answer the questions below in your kwl (this) repo in a file called terminal_organization.md
clone your messy_repo locally and append the history.md file to your terminal_organization.md using a redirect

# Terminal File moving reflection

How was this activity overall?
Did this get easier toward the end?
When do you think that using the terminal will be better than using your GUI file explorer?
What questions/challenges/ reflections do you have after this?

2024-09-26#

Activities:

Read today’s notes when they are posted. There are imporant tips and explanation to be sure you did.
Most real projects partly adhere and at least partly deviate from any major design philosophy or paradigm. Review the open source project you looked at for the software.md file from before and decide if it primarily adheres to or deviates from the unix philosophy. Add a ## Unix Philosophy <Adherance/Deviation> section to your software.md, setting the title to indicate your decision and explain your decision in that section (pick one). Provide at least two specific examples supporting your choice, using links to specific lines of code or specific sections in the documentation that support your claims.

2024-10-01#

Activities:

Export your git log for your KWL main branch to a file called gitlog.txt and commit that as exported to the branch for this issue. note that you will need to work between two branchse to make this happen. Append a blank line, ## Commands, and another blank line to the file, then the command history used for this exercise to the end of the file.
In commit-def.md compare two of the four ways we described a commit today in class. How do the two descriptions differ? How does defining it in different ways help add up to improve your understanding?

2024-10-01#

Activities:

Export your git log for your KWL main branch to a file called gitlog.txt and commit that as exported to the branch for this issue. note that you will need to work between two branchse to make this happen. Append a blank line, ## Commands, and another blank line to the file, then the command history used for this exercise to the end of the file.
In commit-def.md compare two of the four ways we described a commit today in class. How do the two descriptions differ? How does defining it in different ways help add up to improve your understanding?

2024-10-03#

Activities:

Review the notes, jupyterbook docs, and experiment with the jupyter-book CLI to determine what files are required to make jupyter-book build run. Make your kwl repo into a jupyter book, by manually adding those files. do not add the whole template to your repo, make the content you have already so it can build into html. Set it so that the _build directory is not under version control.
Add docs-review.md to your KWL repo and explain the most important things to know about documentation in your own words using other programming concepts you have learned so far. Include in a markdown (same as HTML  ) comment the list of CSC courses you have taken for context while we give you feedback.

2024-10-08#

Activities:

Read about different workflows in git and describe which one you prefer to work with and why in favorite_git_workflow.md in your kwl repo. Two good places to read from are Git Book and the atlassian Docs
Update your kwl chart with what you have learned or new questions in the want to know column
In commit_contents.md, redirect the content of your most recent commit, its tree, and the contents of one blob. Edit the file or use echo to put markdown headings between the different objects. Add a title # Complete Commit to the file and at the bottom of the file add ## Reflection subheading with some notes on how, if at all this excercise helps you understand what a commit is.

2024-10-10#

Activities:

Analyze the xor hashing algorithm in the notes to determine which properties of a cryptographic hash are/not met. Include your analysis in xorhash.md
find 2 more real world examples of using other number systems (either different bases or different symbols and bases) not mentioned in class that are currently used. Describe the number system and its usage in numbers.md. Include links to your sources and be sure that the sources are trustworthy.
Calculate the maximum number of git objects that a repo can have without requiring you to use more than the minimum number of characters to refer to any object and include that number in gitcounts.md with a title # Git counts. How many files would have to exist to reach that number of objects assuming every fiile was edited in each of two commits? If you get stuck, outline what you know and then request a review.

2024-10-17#

Activities:

Make a table in gitplumbingreview.md in your KWL repo that relates the two types of git commands we have seen: plumbing and porcelain. The table should have two columns, one for each type of command (plubming and porcelain). Each row should have one git porcelain command and at least one of the corresponding git plumbing command(s). Include two rows: add and commit.

2024-10-22#

Activities:

Update your KWL Chart learned column with what you’ve learned
write a bash script to make it so that cating the the files in your gh_inclass repo does not make the prompt move

2024-10-24#

Activities:

Answer the following in hpc.md of your KWL repo: (to think about how the design of the system we used in class impacts programming and connect it to other ideas taught in CS)

What kinds of things would your code need to do if you were going to run it on an HPC system? 
What sbatch options seem the most helpful?
How might you go about setting the time limits for a script? How could you estimate how long a script will take?

2024-10-29#

Activities:

Create some variations of the hello.c we made in class. Make hello2.c print twice with 2 print commands. Make hello5.c print 5 times with a for loop and hello7.c print 7 times with a for loop. Build them all on the command line and make sure they run correctly.
Write a bash script, assembly.sh to compile each program to assembly and print the number of lines in each file.
Put the output of your script in hello_assembly_compare.md. Add to the file some notes on how they are similar or different based on your own reading of them.

2024-10-31#

Activities:

Try a new IDE and review it in newide.md. Your review should be 3 secictions: Summary, Evaluation, and Reflection. Summary should be 1-3 sentences of your conclusions. Evaluation should be a detailed evaluation according to your group’s criteria and one other group’s criteria. In Reflection, reflect on your experience: What is easy? hard? What could you apply from the ones you already use? Were there features you had trouble finding?

2024-11-06#

Activities:

Run and examine how rect.hack and max.hack in the nand2tetris/projects/05/ folder work. Make notes and answer the questions below in assemblyexplore.md.

Write an excerpt of code in a high level compiled language that would compile into this `max.hack``.
What does rect.hack do?
What did you learn trying to figure out how it works?

2024-11-07#

Activities:

Write a C program to compare values as doubles and as float (single precision/32bit) to see that the issue we saw with .1 is related to the IEEE standard and is not language specific. Make notes and comparison around its behavior and include the program in a code cell in cdouble.md

2024-11-19#

Activities:

Find another example of a leaky abstraction (besides git) in programming or a hobby. You can use anything to find the example, but be sure that you understand the abstraction fully. Explain the abstraction and why it is leaky in leakyabstraction.md

2024-11-21#

Activities:

this is integrative-2

Add conclusion.md to your KWL repo. In the file include 2 sections: (1) summary with an overall description of what you learned and how this course was/not helpful to you (paragraph or bullet form is fine) (2) key points with the top 10 thigns you want to make sure you remember from this class
Reflect on how this course impacts programming/debugging skills in skillup.md. You can write this as how you think your own skill has improved or as if you are convincing another student to take this class. Touch on at least three topics.

2024-11-26#

Activities:

Choose two languages from the desired admired list. THis could be a highly admired and least desired; it could be one with a small gap and one with a large gap. Read a few posts about each language and try to figure out why it is/not admired or desired. Summarize your findings. Include links to all of the posts you read in a section titled ## Sources in your markdown file. For each source, make a bulleted list with some notes about the author’s background and any limitations that might put on the scope of their opinions. (for example, a data scientists’s opinion on languages is very valuable for data science, but less for app development) Add this to your kwl repo in language_love_dread.md.

2024-12-03#

Activities:

Update your KWL chart.
Simulate a more computationally intensive program using the sleep function in C and compare the time of a threaded vs single threaded (ie serial, no intentional threading) version of the program. Include your two programs and the bash script to show how you tested it with notes on the performance in threaded.md (to better illustrate the impact of the threads)

2024-12-05#

Activities:

Imagine you are coming back to speak to future students in this course in 3-5 years after you graduate. What aspects of this course, either the structure, or the content, do you think you would be most likely to say impacted your career? Submit this in a bulleted list or short paragraph in me-the-speaker.md.