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Types of Student Activities

• Exercises
• Challenges
• Assignments
• Workshops
• Projects

Assignment Secondary Goals

• Pair Programming
• Testing and TDD
• Estimation Practice
• Working with Legacy Code
• Deployment to Heroku
• README Writing
• ERDs
• Workflow Diagramming

Lecture Flow

• Homework Review
• Challenge (weeks 3-9)
• Break
• Problem of the Day (weeks 1-5, occasionally afterwards)
• New Lecture Content
• Homework Prep

Lecture Secondary Topics

• Human Learning: To learn, you should...
  • Get related knowledge in advance
  • Expect to exert effort
  • Try before being taught
  • Review when memory is stale
  • Scar in moderation
  • Retrieve rather than re-expose
  • Interleave topics
  • Elaborate rather than repeat
  • Study concept over implementation
  • Use short feedback loops
• Agile Practices
  • Iterate with rigorous data collection and reflection
  • Estimating is hard
  • Hammer-user vs. shiny-object
  • All code becomes legacy code
  • Debugging is everywhere
  • Data-first vs. behavior-first
  • Start small
  • Style matters early (sadly)
  • Consider technical debt
• git and GitHub Practices
  • init, add, commit, push
  • fork, clone, pull, .gitignore
  • pull, branch, merge, stash
  • branch, pull request, merge
  • Common git workflows (e.g. Gitflow)
  • reset, rebase, filter-branch