Session Summary Week 1
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Matt Ginsberg Week 1 Class Review 1/8/2015 Class Content Summary and Interaction Since this was the first week of course, this class meet went over in great detail a lot to what we will expect for the course. First and foremost there is a breif intoductions from the instructor where she explained what languages of code she knows and how long she was been developing for (since 1985). One thing she wanted to make sure we were understand is that, although we may not find jobs in Java Development, it will be quite easy to pick up other sets of coding once you understand the syntax of that language. The instructor checks her email a lot during the week (Monday - Friday). However, the weekend, especially Saturday, email is not checked. If we have a question at night, usually that email will take about 24 hours to be read and replied to. Grading is prompt especially when the student releases the assignment to DropBox. Assignments are due Sundays. Graded by Monday. The way the assignment is graded is if there is any errors with our code, she will leave feedback as long as we try to solve the problem. However, if there is no attempt to solve the problem, then the instructor will not help and we will receive no point for that assignment. As long as you submit your grades on time (all of them), if you find yourself needing a few points to get to the next grade level, she will bump you up. Attendance is by the submission of homework. If you do not hand in homework then you are absent that week. If we have any querstions with the homework, it is smart to explain in great detail what we are having a problem with. Do not just email the professor saying that you do not understand it. Explain to her what you dont understand. She will also not just come out with the answer, give will give you tips on how to solve it or tell you where to find additional resources. The Hints and tips website that was created to help. There are a bunch of links on this website that will help us
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Matt GinsbergWeek 1 Class Review1/8/2015
Class Content Summary and Interaction
Since this was the first week of course, this class meet went over in great detail a lot to what we will expect for the course. First and foremost there is a breif intoductions from the instructor where she explained what languages of code she knows and how long she was been developing for (since 1985). One thing she wanted to make sure we were understand is that, although we may not find jobs in Java Development, it will be quite easy to pick up other sets of coding once you understand the syntax of that language.
The instructor checks her email a lot during the week (Monday - Friday). However, the weekend, especially Saturday, email is not checked. If we have a question at night, usually that email will take about 24 hours to be read and replied to.
Grading is prompt especially when the student releases the assignment to DropBox. Assignments are due Sundays. Graded by Monday. The way the assignment is graded is if there is any errors with our code, she will leave feedback as long as we try to solve the problem. However, if there is no attempt to solve the problem, then the instructor will not help and we will receive no point for that assignment. As long as you submit your grades on time (all of them), if you find yourself needing a few points to get to the next grade level, she will bump you up. Attendance is by the submission of homework. If you do not hand in homework then you are absent that week.
If we have any querstions with the homework, it is smart to explain in great detail what we are having a problem with. Do not just email the professor saying that you do not understand it. Explain to her what you dont understand. She will also not just come out with the answer, give will give you tips on how to solve it or tell you where to find additional resources. The Hints and tips website that was created to help. There are a bunch of links on this website that will help us with learning code. Each week also goes right to the tips and hints page.
BlueJ is the application that we will use to code in Java. We can use Eclipse if we want but we have to make sure to bring it back to BlueJ to compile it and test it.
Within BlueJ, the solid brown box means that class is compiled. If they are Striped then they are not compiled. If they are compiled you can execute the code and view it. Start a new project for every week and save it so you can find it later as you are working on it.
As the weeks go on we should start new projects for that week and save them accordingly. Once a class is created, remove all the text within that class and use the provided code in W1 to complete the homework.
Do not just share or give code. Plagiarism.
On a side note, I have completed this week's assignment before the meet session. I will try my hardest to attend some of these Thursday meetings.
Matt
