Overview
Students will keep a record (a "journal" or "blog") of activities in the the CS2613 labs.
This journal will be worth 12% of your course mark in total.
The journal will be maintained using frog and git. See the first lab for a tutorial.
The marking rubric available
Content
Each journal entry should be a minumum of 500 words and a (rough) maximum of 1000
You can think about your journal entry as a set of notes for a friend who missed this particular lab.
Your journal entry should answer the following questions
- What new concepts (if any) did you learn about in this lab?
- What concepts are familiar from other courses or from your own knowledge?
- What new skills did you practice?
- What specific details did you find surprising, interesting, confusing, difficult, or otherwise important?
- What explicit tasks (e.g. reading) were you given during this lab?
You are encouraged to link to other pages both inside and outside UNB in your journal entries.
Presentation
Imagine a future employer reading your journal right before interviewing you. Write so that the person interviewing will think of you as a peer, rather than as an "annoying kid".
Your journal entry should use good spelling and grammar, including complete sentences and paragraphs.
A certain amount of point form is OK, but don't rely on it exclusively.
Try to keep a neutral tone. It's fine to record positive or negative opinions, but avoid ranting (or gushing).
Avoid overuse of emoticons or slang.
Handing it it
I recommend you commit and push some rough notes during the lab and edit them later.
You can commit and push as many times as you like. You will be marked on what is on the server at the time it is due.
By default your journal is only visible to the prof and the TA.
Deliverables
Create a separate post for each lab.
This journal entry must be in the standard directory, and must be named
<date>-<title>.md or<date>-<title>.scrbl where<date>is the date of the corresponding lab. Any easy way to ensure this is to create the journal entry during the lab.Make sure you preview your journal entry to avoid obvious mistakes. You will lose marks for syntax errors.