Barzun's Laws of Learning: Mastering the Arts of Study and Teamwork
Learn the essential arts of paying attention, following an argument, detecting ambiguity, and teamwork in CS425. Develop skills through practice and experience. Demonstrate mastery in Assignment 9 demo. Enhance your teamwork abilities to succeed in CS426.
Barzun's Laws of Learning: Mastering the Arts of Study and Teamwork
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Demos • Wednesday 3:00 p.m. to 5:20 p.m. in ECC and SEM 233 (my office) • 20 minutes • Please sign up for a 20 minute slot • Put stable code snapshot on team web page • Zip • Tgz • Destroy team page after Friday 5:00 p.m.
Barzun's Laws of Learning The simple but difficult arts of paying attention, copying accurately, following an argument, detecting an ambiguity or a false inference, testing guesses by summoning up contrary instances, organizing one's time and one's thought for study -- all these arts -- cannot be taught in the air but only through the difficulties of a defined subject. They cannot be taught in one course or one year, but must be acquired gradually in dozens of connections.
Learning • Learn by experience. How hard is it to work in a team? Why? What will you do different next time? • CS425 is also an introduction to teamwork, CS426 is about using your CS425 experience. • Will not count assignment 8 (unit tested code) • Assignment 9 will be graded on Demo.
Working in Teams is hard • Paying attention • Following an argument (discussion of pros and cons) • Detecting an ambiguity or a false inference • Testing guesses by summoning up contrary instances • Making the case for a design decision • Recognizing team member strengths
Working in an organization • Documentation instead of repeated teaching • Write well. Lists are useful in technical docs • Presentations • Speak well. Pictures are worth … • Making the case • Cogent, logical, arguments • Independence • Learn on your own. What would you like to hear? • What should I do? • Which alternative is best?