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Topic | Readings due | Individual HW due by Noon | Resources | Team Projects due by Noon |
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T 11 Jan
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Introduction Team Forming |
New Blog Entries Required every class
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in class exercise: Team Intro team details by hand |
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R 13 Jan
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Open Source Intro | TOS Chp 1 TOS Chp 2 |
1) Create personal blog for this course at Blogger or Wordpress 2) Join class Wiki and list your name hyperlinked to your blog 3) Register for POSSCON blog confirmation/report/plans |
wikis blogs planets listservs |
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T 18 Jan
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Choose and plan team projects | 1) Create Team wiki (using 'protected permission' and list team and wiki on class Wiki 2) Select three H/FOSS project candidates for your team 3) Publish initial findings about projects and rank your choices on team wiki |
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| R 20 Jan | Open Source Issues | TOS Chp 3 The Cathedral and the Bazaar |
1) Select an IRC client and join the channel for your Team project; peruse the history and listen to current traffic; blog about your experiences 2) Join the electronic mail list and/or newsgroup for your team project; select an interesting thread and explore it; blog about your experiences 3) blog your reflections about The Cathedral and the Bazaar |
IRC Tutorial IRC HowTo |
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T 25 Jan
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Team Reports | 1) Publish a full report on your project, its members, history, etc. on the team wiki
2) Publish your ideas for contributing to this project |
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| R 27 Jan | Getting the Code | TOS Chp 4 Subversion Book (Chp 1-4; A) |
1) Log into https://cirdles.cs.cofc.edu/repos/462playground/ 2) Experiment with subversion and blog about your experiences 3) Install subversion on your own machine; blog about experiences |
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| T 01 Feb | Team Reports | 1) Download code; build; install; publish experience report | |||
| R 03 Feb | Building the Code | TOS Chp 5 |
1) Do Freeciv example in Chapter 5; publish experience report | ||
| T 08 Feb | Testing and Debugging the Code | TOS Chp 6 |
1) Do exercises in 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7; publish experience report | ||
| R 10 Feb | Team Reports | 1) Select and describe one bug; find the bug in the code; describe how you will fix and test the bug; publish report | |||
| T 15 Feb | Alumni Symposium | Register here | |||
| R 17 Feb | Review and Discussion | ||||
| T 22 Feb | Team Reports | TOS Chp 7 |
1) Fix the bug and submit your fix to the project; publish report | ||
| R 24 Feb | Fixing the Code | 1) Do exercises in 7.2.2, 7.8, 7.9; publish experience report | |||
| T 01 Mar | Team Reports | 1) If you have not yet, choose a bug or set of bugs or an improvement or set of improvements that your team will focus on for the rest of the semester and which you will officially submit to your chosen project. | |||
| R 03 Mar | Explaining the Code | TOS Chp 8 | In class: Exercise 8.2.1 | ||
| T 08 Mar | S P R I N G B R E A K | ||||
| R 10 Mar | |||||
| T 15 Mar | Team Reports | 1) Produce a timeline for the rest of the semester, ending with a presentation during the period scheduled for the final. | |||
| R 17 Mar | Release early, often | TOS Chp 9 | 1) Select 3 presenters from the POSSCON schedule for the day(s) you will attend. Your goal is to meet them and ask them some prepared as well as impromptu questions; Blog your plans ahead of your visit and then plan to blog about your experiences; There are several coffee breaks and a lunch each day at which you can approach your subjects !! | ||
| T 22 Mar | Team Reports and supervised work | ||||
| W 23 Mar | POSSCON Thursday and/or Friday (one day required, two recommended) |
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| T 29 Mar | Team Reports and supervised work | ||||
| R 31 Mar | Team Reports and supervised work | ||||
| T 05 Apr | Team Reports and supervised work | ||||
| R 07 Apr | Team Reports and supervised work | ||||
| T 12 Apr | Team Reports and supervised work | ||||
| R 14 Apr | Team Reports and supervised work | ||||
| F 15 Apr | SUBMIT ABSTRACTS TO SSM POSTER SESSION: http://spinner.cofc.edu/~physics/poster_11/ | ||||
| T 19 Apr | Team Reports and supervised work | Submit evaluation form in person in class | |||
| R 21 Apr | Today is SSM Poster Session 11:30 - 1:30
Review and Discussion |
Submit a PDF printout of your personal blog as [LastFirst]_blog.PDF by NOON | Submit a PDF printout of your team's wiki as [TeamName]_wiki.PDF by NOON
Submit a Draft of your presentation materials as [TeamName]_present.[type] by NOON |
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| T 03 May | Team presentations in room 202 Tate Center --------> Noon - 3PM | RE-Submit your presentation materials (if they have changed) as [TeamName]_present.[type] by NOON | |||