Hi,
Thanks for coming back to see what happened this week in class. Unfortunately, without a project assigned and the test still a week out, there isn't really much to report.
One thing interesting did happen, and that is that Downing decided this semester to switch up the overall project format for the rest of the semester. What this means is that this semester we get to form teams and propose a project, more or less in the same vein as the project from the earlier iterations of the class, but with something that may be more interesting for us to design than a site about world crises. Of course, our idea must be approved, but we still have some creative freedom, which is fun! Now I just need to figure out what team I'm in before it's decided for me.
On that note, I would like to let folks in my class who are looking for project partners know that I am available to group up. I know some web dev stuff and I'm alright with Python too.
Since the week was pretty chill, I'll take the rest of this post to continue on talking about the extra credit in the class. If you've taken a class with Dr. Downing before, you may already have an idea about all of this, but for those of you who don't know, there are a lot of opportunities in this class. One is the blog. We write a weekly post to you to tell you about the class in at least 350 words, and it is worth 10 points. Next, each of the earlier projects has an extra credit component. For Collatz, if you get your program to run really fast, and you can pass a different version of the problem, you get 5 points. For the second project, if you pair program you get 5 points. For Netflix, if you best the RMSE of 0.94... you get 5 points! If you write a blog post about an approved article, 10 points! And, if you create a portfolio to showcase your work, 10 points.
Hope that gives you some more insight into the class. I'll be back again next weekend.
~Sophie
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