April 30th: Presentation and Portfolio Workshop

Announcements

• Film: From the Back of the Line and facebook
  Friday, May 3rd @ 7:00 PM
  UNCC Uptown Campus

Plan of Attack

• Final Exam: You can come at 6:30pm, but I'll be here all night, so, if you have a conflict, just come later.
  Our scheduled start time is 8:00pm
• Portfolios are DUE today

Portfolio Presentations

Are you ready? I hope so. I'll ask for volunteers, and then we'll go alphabetically when there are no more volunteers. We'll go in order of your webpages. By the way, if your link is incorrect, please e-mail me and let me know.

Now's a good time to upload your material to your 'public_html' file folder if you haven't done so already. You should know how to do this by now.

Participation

I wasn't able to gauge your final grade in an acceptable way. However, you have grades on moodle, so you certainly have a good estimate. One thing I did as a concession, though, wasputtting up your Participation grades. And, because I'm so nice and in a good mood today, I added a note in moodle that gives you how many posts you should do on the "Participation Supplement" section of our class's moodle page to get full credit.

Get them done by the final exam and make sure you read the directions--these are 250-word reflections inspired by class. Don't summarize; draw connections to something from class that you notice outside of class...that's related to class. You may even respond to one of your classmates who have posted reflections already.

Final Exam Preview (5/09--Tuesday, 6:30-9:15)

Your final exam will be based on the reading assigned and activities/discussions we've had since the original midterm exam date (2/26). The exam will be on Moodle (unless something peculiar happens) and will consist of multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, short-answer, and True/False questions.

Topics to pay attention to for the final exam:

Assignment Features

• Personas
• Likert scales and appropriate questions
• Measurable (operationalized goals)
• Screen captures

Degani's Taming HAL Ch. 1-10. While the entire reading is fair game, there are places you ought to pay particularly close attention to.

• Non-determinism and technologies
• Abstractions
• Events, states, and transitions
• User models and machine models
• Concurrency, hierarchy, and synchronization
• Population Stereotypes vs. universal stereotypes
• Initialization (initial mode)
• Mode
• Reference Values
• History Settings
• Default Settings
• Sophisticated interfaces
• A few details from our 5181 students' presentations
  • I couldn't fit these into the exam, so we won't have anything from those presentations
  • Sophisticated interfaces was already part of the reading

Of course, the above is not exhaustive. If you've read carefully (don't skip over the word "carefully"), this should be a breeze.

Portfolios Due!!!

Make sure to turn in your portfolios before you leave.

Before We Go...

Don't forget we meet one more time:

May 9th: Final Exam @ 6:30pm

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