Esteban Mendez Research Notebook

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Esteban's Research Notebook

Topic: Elearn System for Python Basics

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First Week

COMP Idea

September 8th

I met with Professor Luman and discussed the ideas that I had in mind to use for the COMP. I had one idea and shared it with him. This idea was to create a system that students could use easily to study and practice some of the basic Python programming language terms. This is because the basic terms were learned years ago maybe they do not remember them and they need to practice them. Professor Luman liked my idea and well I had to get to work so I started to develop the project. In the beginning, I had to make some details clear like what I needed to do first, and here I made a list below.

TODO List

• Create the website
• Create a user management system
• Create a lesson management system
• Create classes management system
• Learn how MongoDB works
• Learn how to use Kickstart HTML
• Learn how to link Node.js and MongoDB

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Python In Website

September 15th

As a CS comp, the work that I have been doing this week has been more of the organization on how the website lessons will be distributed. This adds more to the organization of the creation of the site which is important. I have been investigating which tool is the best also to include in my site:

• Pyscript
• Pyodide
• Codemirror

All of these tools are effective, but which one works the best for me and the type of work that I am doing is the real question. Some of them need a lot of configurations and some of them just do not work with some of the things that I want to execute.

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Reseach Dump

September 22nd

There has been progress in the investigation of how to make complex lessons for users that may be using this tool. I have been investigating that there should be included some paragraphs with some information about the lesson and what is being learned. Then there must be some challenges or mini challenges for the user to interact with the software, which needs to be linked with the information that just has been taught.

For example:

Indexing: You can access a specific character in a string using its index, starting from 0. For example:

text = "Python"
first_char = text[0]  # Accesses the first character 'P'

And then include a mini challenge:

# Mini Challenge 3: String Slicing
# Given the string 'python_string = "Python Programming"', slice it to get the substring "Programming" and print it.
python_string = "Python Programming"
substring = 
print(substring)

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New Week Focus

September 25th - October 2nd

I got together with Professor Luman to discuss about my artifact. There were some things that I needed to refine like the edit lesson and what the actual project was aiming for. I also gave out the idea of making the mongo dB server online so that any computer can access it without them setting up their db. Went to this link:

Click here to see create a deployment for a dB

Well, I started with what we needed to do to set it up, but there were some things that I did not know about Mongo dB that I am still researching about. In the other hand we discussed the mani focus of my project was to be an LMS or like a similar LMS.

• Mongodb Server
• Focus
• LMS
• Description

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Last few details

Presentation

October 6

This week we discussed about the presentation and how important it is to deliver the right amount of information and the right information to the people presenting to. Most of the things we talked about is the idea of making sure to practice and make sure that we practiced the timing as we only have 10 minutes to present. After we had that conversation with him and with the group, I started making my presentation right away as the last 2 meetings we talked about the focus of my project.

• Problem
• Feasibility
• Features
• Main Idea
• Description

Once I included all of this information in my presentation I have been practicing since I need to have a good presentation for my classmates. I have been practicing the timing and refining my presentation to make it as perfect as possible.

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Presentation/Documentation

October 13

This week I have been working on getting my slides ready, first we started off by showing our progress from the slides to Professor Luman and asking him about some tips for the presentation. After that, I had to make corrections and we checked my code to see if I had any errors before I recorded the demo and submitted the prototype. The Program was working with no issues, so kept working on the README for the program to make it look neat and understandable.

• Building workflow
• Creating documentation/README
• Making sure the Edit Lesson worked
• Fixing Server to make it always run

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Finishing up pitch presentation

October 20th

I have been meeting with Professor Luman constantly as I need to make a lot of changes to my slides as there are some things that need to be more concise instead of having a bunch of words and paragraphs. Well, we met, and we finished up the corrections and I started to work on them got them ready for later that day and recorded my video during the week. Professor Luman gave me feedback about my video and told me about some tips for the video presentation. I have been working on the script that I will be saying over the video presentation as I did not record my voice into the video because I prefer to say it in class.

• Video Script
• Slides
• Video Recording
• Video Editing

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Editing chapter 1 and 2

January 16th

This week we have to edit Chapter 1 and 2 with the feedback from our first reader. He included this issue:

• The Related Works section comes a little too close to being a Methods section

• I noticed this most in the ways that you begin to discuss how "ProgMagus" is addressing some of the areas highlighted; that belongs more squarely in Method, though you can still discuss the related literature of the topic in Related Works. Try to limit the second chapter to the broader situation of LMSes, online learning, and pedagogical strategies int he space

• The introduction needs a bit of strengthening in how it describes and approaches the field into which you're placing the tool

• This is mostly apparent in the Current State of the Art, where there should be some discussion of competitors and the growth/space of online learning -- specifically in programming languages (Python-particular notwithstanding)

• Labeling/grouping of the Related Works section is somewhat unclear. There might be a better way to organize the section to achieve a more comprehensive review of the state of discussion around programming education online and the platforms that serve it

• Completed edits

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Improving the artifact

February 6th

I have been working on and leaning more into the artifact as I have cover the security issues for the users identity and information not to be leaked. There has been some research into these multiple ideas:

• Look for JS method where I can hide pages to students
• Make sure that those pages are available to the instructors only
• Make sure to edit the permissions of each user's side.

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Chapter 3 Completion

February 9th

I had to review chapter 3 for completion with these aspects:

• Review a high-level architecture diagram
• Review key algorithmic techniques
• List the key features of computational artifact
• Receive feedback on your chapter 3 and make revisions

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Constructive Feedback

February 16th

• I had to give feedback to one of the students of 510 class. I included all of the feedback and things that she might want to change.
• I also included the changed that I might change if I was working in the project.
• I had to demonstrate your finished computational artifact to a 510 student

Here is the link to the issue:

510 Issue

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Feedback to 510 student

March 1st

• I had to give feedback to one of the students of 510 class. I included all of the feedback and things that they might want to change. I also included more things that would make the project better.
• I included some suggestions to make it better
• I had to demonstrate your finished computational artifact to a 510 student, he liked it.

Here is the link to the issue

SEERS 510 Issue