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Lecture 26, Thu 12/03

Thursday: Standup meetings, PRs, Code Reviews, Grading concerns

Some items to discuss

• “How much of this should we be expected to know how to do”?
  • Imposter Syndrome
  • Learning from peers
  • Discovery learning vs. direct instruction
  • The skill to teach others is so valuable
  • Scaling up the help from the staff
  • The importance of struggle
• Focus first on what the story is really about.
  • Very often that’s where you spend most of your time rather than the coding
• Is it cheating to use code from the internet?
  • No. That code isn’t going to be plug and play. You are going to have to tweak that code to suit your purposes.
• Use the slack!
  • Ask your teammates for help before the staff
  • Use the help-general and project channels
• “I still can’t get my local setup working (on CSIL, on my own machine)
  • Consider pairing with someone whose set up is working so that you can make contributions
• In team meetings:
  • Let’s talk about how a stand up goes
  • It’s really important to be discussing your team’s work
  • It’s helpful if at least one member is sharing their screen
  • If needed, break out into multiple break out rooms.
  • You can let others control your machine in zoom