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Congratulations for finishing!!
Posted by
Hayden 🎉 Friday 21 May 2021, 07:21:06 PM.
Hi everyone!
Firstly, I'd like to congratulate the top 5 achieving students in COMP6080 for T1. In order, they are:
Alex Liu, Benjamin Mickan, Alvin Cherk, Sarah Oakman, Yasmin Akhtar
. Congratulations!!
For those who have emailed me in the last 24 hours, I will get back to you in the next day or two. If I don't get back to you by Sunday night then I have accidentally lost an email. But I will get back to you :) There are just a few things I have to do in order to get back to you.
Thanks for all the positive comments people left about COMP6080! And thanks for the less positive ones. Whether your experience denotes something actionable or not, having the extensive display of how people feel makes my job of understanding you a lot easier. Your course offering was better than the previous one because of feedback your predecessors made, and I appreciate you taking the time to care about future students.
A big thanks to your tutors to for being wonderful people. A bunch of you know I have private work as well, and what keeps me wanting to teach this course is just how much of a pleasure it is to teach you all. So thank you.
For those who've failed the course, please don't be disparaged. Some of the most successful people I know have failed courses before. This is just a drop in the ocean, keep your head up and trust me when I say everyone trusts your abilities.
I did want to take a bit of a moment to address the less positive comments. I love reading these and learning about what's on your mind, and my biggest weakness is that I just want to learn and discuss them all the time :) Genuinely there are some great pieces of feedback I know, some great pieces of feedback I didn't know, some things that I think I can shed context on to show it's not something we'll do, and then things I just have no idea what to do with :D
1. Things being taken on board for T3
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More react resources
: We could definitely provide more resources (either practical or theoretical) with ReactJS. Any suggestions just email me. Thanks!
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UI/UX being more practical
: Yep, will do. Thanks!
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More on code structure & design patterns
: Yep, I at least
want
to integrate this. Not sure how. Thanks!
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Fix issues with Canva lectures
: Yep, we'll look into that. Thanks!
2. Bigger things to explain
Both of these ones below are extremely nuanced topics and I welcome any and all conversation or ideas people have about it. My email inbox is always open!
2.1. "The course is too hard or time consuming"
I think there are a few things I want to emphasise to people when considering how difficult you find the course:
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This is a level 6 course
- this means its going to be a lot harder than a first year course. Typically we'd expect people who do level 6 courses are in 3rd or 4th year. I understand that some of you do it earlier, which is fine, though it's really not designed for an average 2nd year to find it that easy. It's not meant to be easy, and we're here to push you to learn. And we don't expect every student to get an HD or to finish everything.
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Assignments are worth 75% of the course
- If you find this course say 50% harder than some other courses you do, have a look at their assessment weightings. The assignments are quite large, though we make up for that because we don't assess you as heavily in other areas.
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You all generally did quite well
. As I discuss below too, we gave out nearly 50% of grades were a distinction or above. So it's not like students are doing terribly overall. It's not an easy course, and everyone worked really hard, and you have the results to show for it.
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Some say that "The course should have more depth and less breadth"
- You know, I totally GET what you're saying. The contrast to COMP6080
might be COMP2521 - a course where the concepts are quite narrow but
they're very challenging. So you do the same work, but its solving
complex and difficult problems rather than just "doing more". I.E.
Complaint is that COMP6080 should have less work, but that less work be
harder. And while I do get what you want here, I think the reality (in
my judgement) is that this will just not be a course you will find that
in. Web, by its nature, it's EXTREMELY broad. It's the WORST thing about
teaching this course. It's the anti-C. Every answer leads to 3 more
questions. I could teach 1.5 courses just on CSS. We could have a whole
degree just on web technologies. And more than that - frontend... even
in industry, isn't that
hard
in its
immediate depth. Like I work on frontend/backend every day. The
frontend work is just DIFFERENT - rarely algorithmic problems to solve
and more just tweaking dials and fine tuning things to get them how you
want. It's just a different skill. And that's OK. So while I'm sure we
can make little tweaks, I think the nature of the content, and our
ambition for teaching you more than just CSS, this will always be a hard
course to have you find that in.
2.2. "I want there to be marks for labs"
This one is quite tough.
Do you want marked labs so you can learn more?
Well that wouldn't change what you
can
do, because nothing stops you doing the labs/exercises and turning up every week to get help and have tutors look at it. In fact, you probably get MORE help under this model because otherwise most lab time would be trying to quickly mark people (and get minimal help)
Do you want marked labs so you can be incentivised to do them?
Sure, I get that. But the problem is that there isn't a scalable way (that I can see) to just "cut out" parts of the assignments. Therefore we'd be reducing assignment weights in order to create MORE compulsory work for you. This was the criticism ("too much to do") that caused us to remove them. And you know what, the 20T3 students were right. Having labs marked off weekly by tutors on top of assignments is a kind of crazy burden and it's also a structure that isn't really appropriate (imo) for a level 6 course that assumes students should be capable of self-learning at this stage. SO!! Would it motivate you to complete them? Yes. Would it then make you do even MORE work? Yes. Thus is the problem.
One thought I had today was that I could maybe do a model where each weeks lab/exercise is worth 1 mark. And that 1 mark can come off the assignments instead (not a bonus mark, but rather trading marks). It would need to be small enough that for a typical student that "just doing the assignment" is a more efficient way to get marks per unit of effort, however, still big enough that if people really find the labs super valuable they want to instead of being assessed 30/30 for an assignment and 0/10 for labs, they could do 2 labs and have their assignment scaled down etc. This gets a bit complicated to discuss, but the point is there are some middle grounds.
3. Smaller things to explain and discuss
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"Split the course into two"
- Would love to. That would solve the problems that I have with it (that you might share too). Though not on the drawing board in the immediate future. I'm sure in a couple of years the course will be split in the middle around week 6-7 and both halves made twice as big / twice as hard. I just want to be clear that I don't think the reason to split is to reduce the workload (because the workload is pretty standard for assessment weightings of a level 6 course imo), but rather because we honestly have to skip a lot of interesting things (UI/UX, accessibility, design patterns, backend) that I would LOVE to teach more of but don't have the space for. But again, this isn't something I can imagine ever being in affect until at the absolute earliest 18 months from now.
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"I want to learn Vue as well"
- Just not enough time. One declarative framework to teach is pivotal IMO, but that's already pushing the envelope.
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"I couldn't complete all the exercises"
- Yeah, I know. Last term students told us there wasn't enough exercises and wanted more to practice more or to have more choice. So we added that. We have no expectation that you would do ALL the exercises (as a normal student). Better to be spoiled by choice!
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"I also wish there were more women guest lectures from industry"
- Me too. I don't have much control over Canva staff. But don't forget we did have a team of great female teaching staff who were all very knowledgeable too. In terms of my approach to affirmative action I generally like to approach it top-down (e.g. more female guest lecturers) so whether that's a success or not I hope you know I support that want.
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"I didn't like how many students already knew frontend"
- It feels unfair, doesn't it? This disparity between students? Well, this is exactly why I wanted this course to exist. Because I was frustrated by seeing students feel there weren't on a level playing field. But sadly, some students will take this course when they already know a lot... and if that ever makes you feel uneasy, I encourage people to remember that at least you're getting more for your $! Doing a course that you are already comfortable with will yield less personal growth then someone who has more to learn :) So it sucks, but it's life, and don't compare yourself to the 70 smarties in the course, compare yourself to the millions of people who don't have a skill that you now have!!
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"Allow anonymous posting"
- I tried this once. When you allow it suddenly about 50% of the posts
become anonymous and student participation drops. Generally identities
motivate people. Also, you can post privately (so no other students can
see - just tutors). If anything is ever that sensitive you could always
email me (for future reference). And we do have that totally anonymous
feedback form in the sidebar. Generally speaking I'm comfortable with
those avenues too and am aware that once in a blue moon a student just
won't be, but if I'm oversimplifying or missing anything do reach out!
Always keen to learn.
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"change
of assessment mark distribution / expectations from assuming 90% of
students being a pass grade – distributions generally follow a normal
one centered around CR"
- I actually don't know what you mean
here... If I take the UG offering, more than a quarter of people got a
DN. It was the most populate grade. I gave out 20% more HD's than I did
PS. (FL = 5%, PS = 18%, CR = 25%, DN = 26%, HD = 20%). This course gave
nearly HALF of the students a DN of above grade. I understand that I
spent some time explaining
how we have to make some assessments harder
but that's just to explain that if I didn't do that then virtually
everyone gets a DN or above. The marks are still very very high, I just
wanted to avoid them being excessively high to the point of eroding the
integrity of assessing you.
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"It felt like the course didn't want us to do well"
- Again, would love to learn more. People did very well in this course,
and it's a pretty typical difficulty for a level 6 course.
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"Release of feedback for assignments earlier"
- This one is tricky. We actually release things pretty early compared to other courses (most tutors work like bulldozers to mark). Further, due to extension we actually can't release assignments usually more than 7-10 days. So it's kind of edge of the envelope again. I understand that diligent students might completely finish the next assignment before the previous feedback comes out, and don't want to go back and adjust, but I just don't know how feasible that is. The best I could probably say for future reference is if you truly did FINISH the next assignment in like 7-10 days totally, then you could probably email me/LiC and ask for some tentative feedback as a one off case.
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"Release lectures early"
- A lot of the time there was actually a process to go through in terms of finalising the order and whatnot. Often I released them as soon as they were ready to go. Sorry that I didn't have more of them ready earlier!
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"I wish topics were taught in chunks"
- I understand that, though nothing stops you learning them in chunks. We release them in an order to help students absorb content slowly. But we label them (with cute emojis) so that if you want to tackle topics in a chunk you can just click through them too :)
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"I normally get X mark in my other courses"
- An average COMP6080 student scored within a few points of their current WAM, so it's likely a case that some students will outperform their WAM in this course, and others will underperform their WAM. So I don't think a single WAM comparison will yield much, but I do love all the other feedback.
4. Things I don't know what to do with
So the following is feedback that... I understand what you wanted to say, but it's hard to do without more specific information. If you wrote this, or you feel the same, drop me an email hayden.smith@unsw.edu.au and just like elaborate with more specificity.
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"Course materials weren't helpful in the assignments"
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"React can be deeper"
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"Give more hints about how to do the assignment (like give similar examples)"
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"Add more structure to the course"
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"Should have more examples on each topics"
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"Would appreciate more guidance from lecturers"
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"[I didn't like] the tutors"
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"I know some lecture notes have the code snippets, but I find it inadequate."
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"I felt that the response to forum posts regarding some students' lack of access to assignment 3 was initially a little poor. Other questions were answered while that question was ignored which almost gave the impression that the course did not care to respond"
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(For the assignment) "I had to make so many similar pages"
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"Timestamps in youtube videos"
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"More tutors in help sessions"
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"Assignment X was too hard"
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"Assignment X was too long"
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"Canva's lectures weren't as good"
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"I feel like React could be introduced a little earlier"
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"I wish assessments were broken up into more parts"
Overall, thank you so much for a great term. This is the second offering of this course and already so much of your feedback will help drive future iterations of this course. I genuinely mean this when I say you were all some of the most pleasant students I've taught, and I really appreciate your understanding throughout the course!
Go find me and add me on LinkedIn so we can stay in touch :) And if nothing else, I hope learning some of this material will have immediate or long term benefits to your capabilities. I'm sure you'll all go and build incredible things.
Finally, if you're interested in Typescript,
go check out a talk by one of your COMP6080 tutors
.
I'll see you all around!!
❤️
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Assignment 3 Mark Release + Exam
Posted by
Hayden 🎉 Sunday 09 May 2021, 04:54:33 PM.
Hi everyone :)
Assignment 3 marks are now released. More info on them can be found here:
https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP6080/21T1/reso...
Information on the exam will be shared with you directly via email (so check your inbox!) on Tuesday @ 1pm. I communicate with you via email and the forum during the exam since they are reliable services.
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MyExperience!! Fill it out now!!
Posted by
Hayden 🎉 Tuesday 27 April 2021, 02:30:59 PM.
Did you know that
3 out of every 4 people in the course haven't filled in MyExperience?
Please help!!
I know it's a bit of a pain, but even if you just leave the comments blank I'd love if you could fill it out quickly. Just click the link below. It's the last thing I'll ask from you this term :)
https://unsw.bluera.com/unsw/
If you're reading this, click the link now, otherwise you'll forget to do it later :D
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🐸 End of week 10 updates
Posted by
Hayden 🎉 Saturday 24 April 2021, 08:54:15 PM.
Hi everyone!
Congratulations for making it through assignment 3!! I'm beyond proud of everyone given how far we've come this term. That's 75% of the way through the course.
MyExperience
😭
😭
13%
😭
😭
😭
😭
of people
😭
have completed
😭
MyExperience for COMP6080 so far! That means 7 out of 8 of you haven't filled it in. Please fill it out sometime in this next week! :) Love your feedback!!! Thanks
Ass3 Marks
We're aiming to release assignment 3 marks before the exam (probably quite close to the example). We usually need two weeks, but your tutors will be quite busy too. Thanks for your patience and we'll do our best.
Final Exam
All you need to know about the final exam is in
Thursday's lecture
:) For any other questions you can post in the forum.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
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🦄 Welcome to Week 10
Posted by
Hayden 🎉 Saturday 17 April 2021, 03:49:49 PM.
Hi everyone!
Week 10 is upon us soon! With assignment 3 being due in 5 days, that means in less than a week you will have completed 75% of this course!
And the best part? Since the exam is also a ReactJS App (albeit smaller) that means you're basically already studying for the final exam. So we're on the home stretch :)
MyExperience is open
MyExperience is now ready to be completed! I will send you a couple of reminders over the next week or two :) Some comments I'll make are: Please distinguish between myself & the course when providing feedback. Don't be negative about the course if your issue is with my teaching style, and don't be negative about my teaching style if your issue is with the course. I really do read the comments and feedback so don't feel it's wasted effort!
You can complete it here!
Assignment 2 Marks
Assignment 2 marks will be released on
Sunday the 18th of April @ 10pm
.
You can find more information about how to interpret your grades here
.
Assignment 3 Due Date
A reminder that assignment 3 is due on
Thursday 22nd April (week 10) @ 8pm!
Week 10 Lectures
During week 10 we will have two lectures:
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Monday 6pm-8pm
:
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First hour is a guest lecture from a Canva recruiter
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Second hour is a help lecture from me for assignment 3
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Thursday 6pm-8pm
:
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Lecture from me talking about the final exam
I'll see you on Monday!
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🦏 Welcome to Week 9
Posted by
Hayden 🎉 Saturday 10 April 2021, 06:09:11 PM.
Hi everyone!
An early welcome to our second last week. The lectures for week 9 form the very last pieces of content in the course. The only real challenging topic for you all to take on board is most likely the accessibility and testing lectures.
We'll be here to help you through to the end :)
Week 9 Guest Lecture
For week 9, Zain Afzal (from Google) will deliver our first hour of lecture on Thursday 15th of April. It will mostly be a lecture about Web & Javascript, though you are welcome to ask him questions about Google as well!
For the remainder of the lecture I will be fielding questions you have about assignment 3.
Please note: The lecture may potentially be a zoom call depending on how I want to set it up :) But the link will be in the same place.
Assignment 2 marking is ongoing
We're hoping to get assignment 2 marks to you for next weekend. There is just still a lot to get through! Thanks for being patient.
I'll see you all on Thursday!
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🥚 Welcome to Week 8
Posted by
Hayden 🎉 Sunday 04 April 2021, 12:12:05 AM.
Hi everyone!
An early welcome to week 8. We're on the home stretch in the course now! Just a few weeks of getting comfortable in ReactJS and submitting a last assignment. This course is very assignment heavy, so the harder parts are nearly over.
I think it's exceptional seeing how well everyone has picked up the content and done their best with it overall. This really isn't the easiest course, and you've been rising to the challenges very well.
Assignment 3 Release
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Assignment 3 has been released and information can be found here.
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It is due on Thursday evening (22nd April) of week 10. Details in the spec.
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Before you ask any questions on the forum be sure to have watched the week 7 live lecture.
Assignment 2 marking is ongoing
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Our aim is to complete assignment 2 marking within a week. However, there is a chance it will slip into week 9 (there is a lot to mark, and your tutors are often latter year students who get busier toward the end of term too).
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We guarantee you'll get your assignment 2 results back before you have to submit assignment 3 (which is the main thing that matters!)
I'll see you all on Thursday! Next week we'll be basically doing a big assignment 3 help session during lectures.
And Happy Easter! I hope the Easter Bunny is bringing you all chocolate today ( :
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🏳️🌈 Welcome to Week 7
Posted by
Hayden 🎉 Sunday 28 March 2021, 11:01:41 PM, last modified Sunday 28 March 2021, 11:01:53 PM.
Hi everyone!
Welcome to week 7 :) This is officially the point where we're sinking our teeth into ReactJS to create even more exciting and elaborate applications.
I understand many of you are still finishing off your Assignment 2 over the next 24 hours. Good luck!
Don't forget to
subscribe to my youtube channel
if you want to be notified ASAP when new lectures are uploaded.
Assignment 3 Solo/Pairs
Assignment 3 Release
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Assignment 3 will be released on late Tuesday evening - check back then, I will not send out a notice for it.
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To find instructions of where to find your assignment 3 repo, just checkout "Assignment 3" on the
assignments page
.
I'll see you all on Thursday!
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🌧️ Welcome to Week 6 (Flex-week)
Posted by
Hayden 🎉 Sunday 21 March 2021, 02:23:35 AM, last modified Monday 22 March 2021, 12:56:31 PM.
HELP SESSIONS (LAB TIMES) STILL RUN NORMALLY IN WEEK 6!!
Hi everyone!
I hope you enjoy what you can of your flex week! When we come back in week 7, we will be starting our deeper dive on
ReactJS
.
Also, I believe CSE is undergoing some software maintenance from Fri 26th March (evening) to Sat 27th March (evening). So be aware you may not have access to a large number of CSE systems during that time - and plan around that. It will not be grounds for special consideration.
Also,
subscribe to my youtube channel
if you want to be notified ASAP when new lectures are uploaded.
Assignment 1 Marks
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Assignment 1 marks have been released.
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You can find information on where to find the marks, and how to interpret them,
here
.
Assignment 3 Pairs
Have a wonderful week, and
g
ood luck with assignment 2!
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☔️ Welcome to Week 5
Posted by
Hayden 🎉 Monday 15 March 2021, 02:26:32 AM.
Hi everyone!
Welcome to week 5! Not many updates this week, it's pretty smooth sailing :)
This will be our last formal week teaching vanilla Javascript, so soak it all in because you'll need it to complete Assignment 2!
Flex week is coming up next week, and your assignment is due shortly after the flex week. From my experience in T3, students who make the most of week 5 tend to both perform well in Assignment 2 but also have a slightly better holiday! After the break we'll be digging quite deeply into ReactJS.
General Updates
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As per the timetable
, in week 5
we will have a Thursday lecture
, we will
NOT have a Monday lecture
.
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Assignment 2 is well underway! We spent a lot of time in week 4 lectures on this and will do so again in week 5.
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Tute03
solutions have been updated to the main repository (linked on Webcms3, in a
solutions
folder).
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Exercise03
solutions have been pushed to your personal repository (in a
solutions
folder).
I'll see you on Thursday!
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🎲 Welcome to Week 4
Posted by
Hayden 🎉 Sunday 07 March 2021, 10:41:22 PM.
Hi everyone!
Week 4 is ahead of us. With assignment 1 behind you, it's time we really start looking at building functional websites with a LOT of Javascript. Assignment 2 is very much the "hump" in this course for most students to get over. And you get over it by being very comfortable with Vanilla JS and DOM manipulation.
For those who have been ignoring the exercises - this week is the time you should sink your teeth in and try and get familiar with the material. We'll be covering it lots more in tutorials and lectures.
And of course, we'll continue our exploration of ReactJS in the interim. Of course you can treat this as lower priority, though it's worth getting familiar with basics while you have the time.
Also, whether it's assignments or exercises, please don't forget to check intermittently for any merge requests we have pushed to your repository.
Lecture Updates
Assignments
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Assignment 1 is pretty much done now for everyone who didn't have an extension
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We're hoping to have Assignment 1 marked within 2 weeks from tomorrow.
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Assignment 2 will be released late tomorrow night (8th March) - keep an eye out on gitlab! We can talk about it on Thursday
Course Content Updates
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Tute03
solutions have been updated to the main repository (linked on Webcms3, in a
solutions
folder).
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Exercise03
solutions have been pushed to your personal repository (in a
solutions
folder).
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Tute05
has been released.
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Exercises05
has been released.
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Don't forget there is a
lecture code repo
with lots of bits and pieces of code from lectures.
I'll see you on Thursday!
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🐦 Welcome to Week 3
Posted by
Hayden 🎉 Sunday 28 February 2021, 05:00:49 PM.
Hi everyone!
Hopefully by now everyone has settled into term a little bit and ready for the exciting rollercoaster ahead :) I'd like to thank the students that attend the lectures on Thursday as it keeps it lively with you there - so thanks!
Week 3 is really about making sure everyone is
sinking their teeth into Javascript.
While your first assignment is due on
Friday
, it's important (not only for task 4, but for future weeks) that you start to get comfortable writing Javascript for execution in the web browser. So to summarise:
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HTML/CSS
: Moving on from this topic as a primary focus
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Javascript (General + Browser)
: The core of the focus right now
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ReactJS/UI/UX/Accessibility
: Just starting to slowly get familiar with this
The 8pm-10pm Mon/Wed/Fri
student hang
collaborate session is still there for students to drop into. It's a new idea, so please provide feedback if you do use it, or if its empty and boring we might try and reduce the hours. I'll pop in and say to some this week most likely!
Lecture Updates
Assignment 1 Updates
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You have until Friday this week (5 days) to complete this assignment.
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Please remember that Task 4 is meant to be challenging and designed for upper distinction / high distinction level students. Don't stress yourself out too much if it feels completely overwhelming, we have many more weeks to get comfortable with Javascript :)
Course Content Updates
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Tute02
solutions have been updated to the main repository (linked on Webcms3, in a
solutions
folder).
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Exercise02
solutions have been pushed to your personal repository (in a
solutions
folder).
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Tute04
has been released.
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Exercises04
has been released.
I'll see you on Thursday!
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🍫 Welcome to Week 2
Posted by
Hayden 🎉 Sunday 21 February 2021, 05:29:21 PM, last modified Sunday 21 February 2021, 05:32:01 PM.
Hi everyone!
Thanks for a great first week, and welcome to those who enrolled mid-week :)
General Updates
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(CANVA TALK) If you're keen,
Canva will be hosting a Frontend at Canva Tech Talk this Tuesday at 5pm-6pm Sydney time
.
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(STUDENT HANG)
I have setup an 8pm-10pm Collaborate session on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday that students can drop into (WITHOUT TUTORS) to just hang out and chat about anything COMP6080 related. A common thread in the previous terms has been that with COVID going on, students feel quite isolated. This is an opportunity to drop by the call and just see what other students are up to with either their COMP6080 work or just life in general. You can find it via Moodle > "Tutorials & Help Sessions" > "Student Hangout"
Lecture Updates
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As per the timetable
, in week 2
we will have a Thursday lecture
, we will
NOT have a Monday lecture
.
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Week 3 lecture material will be released tomorrow on the
lectures course work page
.
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Some material may trickle in throughout the week due to some delays getting external lectures
Assignment 1 Updates
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You have until Friday week 3 to complete this assignment. If you haven't started it, definitely try and make a start this week. That gives you extra buffer in case you get caught up in week 3.
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I have been pinning some posts on Ed (forum) for questions that I think most students would interested in seeing the response to. I will continue to do so during the duration at the assignment. Examples include:
Course Content Updates
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Tute01
solutions have been updated to the main repository (linked on Webcms3, in a
solutions
folder).
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Exercise01
solutions have been pushed to your personal repository (in a
solutions
folder).
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Tute03
has been released.
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Exercises03
has been released.
I'll see you on Thursday!
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Welcome to COMP6080 21T1 🍪
Posted by
Hayden 🎉 Sunday 14 February 2021, 12:50:42 PM.
Hi everyone!
My name is Hayden and I'll be your primary lecturer & course convenor in 21T1.
This is the second time that COMP6080 is running at UNSW, and it's very exciting to have you here!
I would strongly recommend you all take the time to read the course outline, as it pretty much covers all the key points in the course
.
We will be going through an overview of the course in our
first lecture tomorrow (Monday 15th February from 6pm-8pm).
In the meantime here are some quick summaries:
Lectures
The course is made up of two types of lectures:
Tutorials & Labs
Tutorials in this course are just like your standard UNSW tutorial - 1 hour with a tutor going through problems.
The "Lab" times however, are going to be run as essentially help sessions. This is because there are NO marked labs in this course at all - therefore there is nothing to get "marked off" in the labs. This is also why you will not see any scheduled help sessions, because those lab times effectively function as them.
All of these times can be found
on the schedule page
.
Tutorials & Labs are not compulsory to attend. You can attend any online tutorial or lab time that suits you (assuming it isn't crazy - in which case we'll give preference to students enrolled at that time). Please don't attend in-person tutorials that you aren't enrolled in, because UNSW has strict COVID control procedures.
Assignment 1
Assignment 1 will be released tomorrow (Monday the 15th). We will try and talk about it in the lecture tomorrow. You have nearly 3 weeks to complete it, so don't stress! It's meant to be an easy entry to the course.
Keep an eye out for it in the sidebar!
Forum
If you haven't already, please
join the forum here
. It's where you can ask questions throughout the course. And if you have a spare few minutes,
introduce yourself
.
See you soon :)
Hayden