W18 Ideas
Suggestions for things to take on in W18 or later
Suggestions from Dillon Kearns, 12/6/2018
- Teach IDE refactoring
- Teach “Safe refactoring”
- Teach refactoring as part of writing new code, not as a separate step
- Mine previous quarters work for examples of refactoring opportunities
- Show the before
- Live code the refactoring.
- Show the after.
- First lecture on refactoring
- Dylan: you can refactor without understanding the exact endpoint…
- Pair / Mob programming.
Ways of interacting as industry mentor
- Ideally, students will be doing one of the following activities; industry mentors could choose which of these they thing they might offer the most help with, given their areas of expertise. And/or, students could say where they think they most help.
- Coding
- Either refactoring, fixing bugs, or implementing features
- OR writing tests
- Writing or refining user stories or issues
- Giving demos
- Which could be an opportunity to reflect on UI/UX
- Or on features
- Coding