Designing Solutions Through Programming
Tuesday 20 October 2020 - Block 2
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- It's important to carefully read our daily notes
- We will review our virtual learning process:
- We will review our daily note procedure
- We will review screen sharing with zoom
- We will review our threaded discussion board
- We will review how you get a grade in this class.
- We will learn about our next adventure - an overview of what we do next.
- We are building a web application to solve a problem
- Our web application will have a page getting input
- Our web application will take the input from the user and pass it to a page to process the input
- The web application will assign the input from the users into variables
- The web application will then:
- open a connection to a table in a database
- make a query to the table in the database
- the query will be looking for any matching data which matches the user input
- if there is a match, the web application will output the results (see step 6)
- if there is no match, the web application will output no matches could be found
- The web application will display the results
- In addition, your web application will have register, login, logout functionality (if that is required for your solution)
- In addition, your web application will have a modern navigation bar
- In addition, your web application will be usable on devices with differently sized screens
- We will start thinking about our question; our first problem and solution
- Your first problem and solution should be something for you or your friends
- Your first problem and solution should be something simple
- ...but it must be a real problem
- Your solution must utilize a database
- Your solution must be web-based application
- Your solution must have:
- a part which collects user input
- a part which processes that input
- a part which outputs results from the processing
- If you are interested in getting some candy in todays class, please come to me and quiety tell me the sum of todays date (10 + 20 + 2020)
- Once your problem has been approved (AND ONLY ONCE YOUR PROBLEM HAS BEEN APPROVED) can you then start on section A of the design cycle: inquiry and analysis
- Homework is always posted on google classroom (and only google classroom)
A little less comfortable
Content
Programs must solve the problem they were create to solve. We can worry about how effieciently or elegantly they solve the problem later on; not right now. The content of a program entails input, processing and output. All three of these elements must be clearly observable. A key question you will be asked (and you should ask yourself) is: to what extent does your code implement the features required by the specification?
Process
Within the process, we are looking at six guiding questions:
- To what extent is your code written well (i.e. clearly, efficiently, elegantly, and/or logically)?
- To what extent is your code eliminating repetition?
- To what extent is your code using functions appropriately?
- To what extent is your code readable?
- To what extent is your code commented?
- To what extent are your variables well named?
Product
As opposed to content, this section we focus on how well you solved the problem. A key question here is to what extent is your code free of bugs?
A little more comfortable
Content
Programs must solve the problem they were create to solve. You should ask yourself "Am I solving this elegantly?". The content of a program entails input, processing and output. All three of these elements must be clearly observable, and we must see evidence of sanitizing input and raising exceptions. A key question you will be asked (and you should ask yourself) is: to what extent does your code implement the features required by the specification?
Process
Within the process, we are looking at six guiding questions:
- To what extent is your code written well (i.e. clearly, efficiently, elegantly, and/or logically)?
- To what extent is your code eliminating repetition?
- To what extent is your code using functions appropriately?
- To what extent is your code readable?
- To what extent is your code commented?
- To what extent are your variables well named?
For those more comfortable programming, we expect succinct, secure and effecient problem solving.
Product
As opposed to content, this section we focus on how well you solved the problem. A key question here is to what extent is your code free of bugs? The real difference here is the complexity of the problem you have chosen to solve and how well you solved it.
Our Big idea
The big idea for today is Programming.
The essential questions for this topic are:
How do we plan, write, execute, and test instructions a computer can understand and process?
It takes time to explore and really understand a big idea. If you want to
learn more about
programming (which is connected to today's daily note),
please click here
.
We are learning this because as a designers must understand scientific and technical innovation. Designers use systems, models, methods, and processes to solve problems.
Reminders & routines:
IF (today == testing_day_for_me) {
remember to go get tested!;
}
IF (this_block == first_block_day) {
read_daily_bulletin;
}
IF (today == Friday) {
current_event_activity();
}
As I am taking attendance:
- For students who are physically at ASW: Please check now: am I connected to the American School of Warsaw wireless network
- Please check now: is visual studio code working from my programming folder?
To remember:
- All the files you need for this course can be found at this link. Please pay attention to the time the file was last updated.
- You can access a web-based view of your database by clicking this link.
- Please be aware of course videos to help you understand our content.
Our learning
This is a beta feature. Please let me know if you have any feedback.
Please click here to reflect on our learning for today's class.