PADS AMA

From doing these activities students will

discover from an expert what motivates design decisions when making a DSL

In class Announcements - 5 min (9:00 ~ 9:05)

Warm-up activity

As you enter, put your name and a short version of a question from the homework that you most want answered on the blackboard. We will use this for selecting groups

Groups and Roles

Scribes

Take notes for your group to contribute to the wiki page for the discussion
A head scribe will go and write a summary on that page for an extra credit point

Managers

Keep track of time
Make a role ticket on the Reading repo for everyone in your group

Ambassadors

Presents the unified thoughts of their group
Talks with instructors at the end about meta class management

Small group discussion - 15 min (9:05 ~ 9:20)

Go over the questions you all turned in for homework and synthesize them into a priority-ordered list.

Large group discussion - 45min (9:20 ~ 10:05)

Matt will host the AMA with Kathleen as the expert. First the ambassadors will round-robin the top priority questions, and then the floor will be open until we run out of time.

Cool-down activity - 10 min (10:05 ~ 10:15)

All scribes will get together to start their wiki write up to be finished at latest a week from today.

All managers will get together and make tickets for the course. This can include the tickets from their group discussions as mentioned above, a ticket to follow up on the scribe write up, and any other issues they think will be helpful.

Ambassadors may let Matthew know of any outstanding issues.