Last updated on Friday, December 13, 2024

Week 12 Debrief: Futures

Congrats on completing your 12th week of CS-214! Here is a round-up of interesting questions, tips for exercises and labs, and general notes about the course.

Administrivia

• Registrations for the unguided lab checkoff are closed. Please double-check your slot: we had to move a few teams, but never by more than 15 minutes.

• The unguided lab is due this Friday, but we will automatically extend the deadline to Sunday.

  • The Moodle submission page will open soon. Try submitting ahead of the deadline to rule out last-minute issues.
  • Remember that your code should be in a package called apps.app<yourTeamId>. A few repos use custom names, and that will not work well with the auto-grader.
  • If you have registered for an early checkoff (Friday 13th December), you must turn in the lab before your checkoff.

• The final exam will be a mix of exercises and mini-labs. We will have a dry-run with a simple problem on Wednesday, December 18th. Seating assignments will be communicated next week.

Interesting Ed questions

• Webapps
  • How do I write tests for a clock-driven state machine?
  • My UI flickers when I receive a new view: what should I do?
  • How can I connect bots to my app?
  • How do I include additional images or other resources in my app?
  • How do I load custom fonts in my app?
  • What if I need a fixed number of players/users?
• Git
  • I committed under the wrong name/email: what do I do?
• Scala
  • Why does sleep(4); sleep(2) return after two seconds?
  • Where should I put my requires?
  • How do I handle repetition in require clauses?

Unguided lab updates

Our advice for this week

At this point, you should have a second prototype with almost all functionality complete. In the last few days, we recommend:

• Polishing the implementation, making sure that existing features work before implementing new ones.
• Adding (more) tests, to reveal corner cases.
• Reviewing the unguided lab policies to avoid losing easy points.
• Preparing the demo.

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