I524 Lectures¶

Based on our experience with residential and online classes we will for the first time not require that you have to do the class videos at a particular time once they are released. This, however, has the danger that you are not watching them at all and you cheat yourself as you do not allow yourself the educational lessons that this class offers to you. It also requires you to assemble your own schedule for watching the videos that will have to be managed through Github as part of a README.md file in your git repository. You will need to do the technology track, the communications track, as well as the theory track.

Theory Track:

Some lectures have been designed to introduce you to a number of technologies. These lectures are of more theoretical nature and do not require much hands on activities. Thus you can start them any time.

Collaboration Track:

These lectures provide the tools for you to collaborate with your peers and with instructors.

Systems Track:

These lectures cover topics that are fundamental to executing your project.

Technology Track:

These are lectures with strong technology content and introduce you to using a selected number of technologies as part of the class. It is expected that you will use them as part of the project. Instead of slowing you down with graded homework we expect that you learn these technologies and reuse them as part of the project. It would be a big mistake to start the project 2 weeks before the semester ends, you will not succeed. You must start your project in the first month of the course. Progress is reported on a monthly basis while the report is updated and snapshot every month. We will monitor your progress and include them into the discussion grade. For residential students there should be no reason why you can not provide a monthly update. For online students, a valid update would be: “I changed my company and could not work on the project due to moving”. This will give you some points if submitted in time. However, if you submit nothing, we will not issue any points.