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Week 8 Debrief: Post midterm
Congrats on completing your 8th week of CS-214, the course that’s about modularity, correctness, and real-world engineering! Here is a round-up of interesting questions, tips for exercises and labs, and general notes about the course.
Administrivia
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Congrats on completing the midterm! We are currently in the process of grading it: once we’re done, we will send the graded papers to CePro for scanning. The results, together with the solutions, should be released within the next two weeks. (You will be able to report grading issues on Ed; not by email!)
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The final exam will take place on January 22nd. We may have a dry run on December 17th. Use the VDI CMs to train ahead of time!
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Monday (November 10th) is the last day for unguided-callback checkoffs.
Interesting Ed questions
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Laziness
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Variance
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Scala
PSA: Make sure that you know how to debug VSCode and worksheets!
The CS-214 final will be on computers, and we will not be able to help you debug during the final. You must make sure that:
- you are comfortable debugging common VSCode / Metals issues;
- you are able to work with just SBT, on the command line.
A malfunctioning setup (VSCode, worksheets, SBT, etc.) will not be a valid excuse to get your final grade reconsidered, so now is the time to bring these issues to a help session and get our help to fix them. You can ask during all help sessions.
If you missed your lab exam or struggled during it, now is also the perfect time to get comfortable with the VDI environment ahead of the final. Our training VMs are available at most times, and so are the exam VMs during every exam-lab slot (to everyone, not just test takers).