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Lecture 26, Thu 02/20

TR Decision Day

Decisions Day (TR)

Please sit with your teams initially.

11:00 - 11:10 Epic Roll Call

I will ask one member from each team to summarize your team’s project and epic in 60 seconds or less.

11:10-11:20 Compare your epic with the others

In lab, you explored your own team’s epic and project.

While the default is to stay with your assigned team and epic, if there is room, you may be permitted to switch to another team.

Take a moment, to look at the other Epics for your discussion section.

For example, if you are in the Tuesday 5pm section, on t-5pm-a, also look at the epics for t-5pm-b, t-5pm-c and t-5pm-d.

There is also the remote possibility to switch to a different discussion section if and only if:

11:20-11:30 Look at the individual project track

The individual project track is not yet 100% ready, but it will be quite similar to the F19 individual project track described here.

Differences:

But it will be quite similar.

11:30-11:40 Pros/Cons of the legacy code vs. individual track

There is no secret that I hope most students choose the legacy code track.

You will gain valuable skills, experience and insight from working on a legacy code project that are difficult to find in any undergraduate or even graduate course. These skills are among the most sought out industry skills. I beleive you’ll be better prepared for job interviews for internships and permanent positions, and will be on-boarded more quickly when you start those jobs.

There are also rewards in working on code that will have a life beyond the course. You are contributing to something real, something that will get used.

However I recognize that committing to a project team comes with challenges.

You may have life or academic circumstances that make it difficult to make the necessary committment for these next 3 weeks to other team members to show up, carry your weight, communicate, etc. This doesn’t mean you aren’t capable, just that right now isn’t the right time for you.

So, there is no shame in choosing the individual project track, if that’s the better choice.

Attendance

Project Track:

Individual Track:

11:40-11:50 Discussion in your teams

You may now discuss in your teams which option you wish to choose. Feel free to also visit other teams that have open slots if you want to explore.

11:50-Noon: Time to commit

Record your selection in this form

If you are on the individual track

Please go to the slack channel for your previous team (e.g. #t-5pm-a, #t-5pm-b, etc.)

Now, join the appropriate channel on slack for your discussion section

You are then done for today, and you may leave. You are welcome to stay and work quietly in the back of the room, but you are also free to go.

If you are a NEW team (different from your original team)

Sit with your new team.

Please go to the slack channel for your previous team (e.g. #t-5pm-a, #t-5pm-b, etc.)

Next join the appropriate channel on slack for your new team

Noon-12:15: New Team Committments

You are now in a new team.

Even if it has the exact same members as the old team, it is new because it has a new purpose.

There a few housekeeping issues. Divide these up among the team. On the slack, record which team members is taking responsibilty for each of these. If you have only 4 team members, someone will need to take on two tasks. If you have 6, then two of you can pair on task 4 or task 5.