Special Topics

Due Monday Nov 18th @ 9 am

From this assignment, students may show...

Metacognition - Recognition, Reasoning, Reflection

... in addition to other learning objectives students feel their work accomplishes.

Let's begin

In upcoming Wednesday classes, we will be covering special topics. A special topic could be anything related to language design, metaprogramming, or usability:

Going deeper on implementations or computational models from any of the papers we have read
Doing a case study of a language or DSL
Other metaprogramming techniques such as Generics and Language Extensions in Haskell or macros in MetaML, Racket, or Elixir.
Block and other "teaching" programming languages
Research Methods (Experiment and evaluations when a human is in the loop)

These topics will be more meaningful if they are sourced from you and contain what you are actually interested in.

Please submit your suggestions as Github issues on the reading repo and assign them to Matt. To earn metacognition, please include how the information from covering this special topic will help you either in the ticket or in your private repo under hw20-2 if you are more comfortable.

To earn extra participation credit, please write up a wiki article on the reading wiki with preliminary information about the special topic. Please include enough information to give us a clear idea of where you want the discussion to go.

To earn 2 extra participation credits in addition to the above, you can volunteer to lead a 10-15 minute introduction to the special topic on one of the Wednesdays. Let Matthew know via email or META.md if you would like to volunteer to do that.

Optional META.md

META.md should include

your name
your utln
the witness "proof" for how you earned each learning objective
what optional tasks you did/are doing

Please Submit

Contents to be submitted

A special topic
For learning objectives, a reflection
For learning objectives and participation, a write up
For 2x participation, a volunteer plan for a future Wednesday
META.md

Method of submission

Please encode your special topic as a github issue and assign it to mpahrens. Submit your reflection as either part of the issue or in your private repo. Commit your wiki article to the reading wiki. Let me know in a META.md in your hw20-1 of your private repo with what optional things you did.

Please turn in everything by 9am on Monday.