Info2 SoSe 2020 - Labs and Exercises

Pre-Labs

As this semester the labs will take place online, it is IMPORTANT that you are familiar with the exercise before the lab starts. Before the lab starts please:

read through the whole exercise (see below)
do the pre-lab
recap on what you did for the lecture
post any questions on Moodle
(form your new group and post the names of all group members on Moodle - see below)

During the lab

During the lab you will be working on exercises in groups (see below) while communicating with each other and with me online. This is the plan for now, but it might change.

Communication

You should join the BBB “Lab Hangout”, you find it on the Moodle page at “Labs - General Topics”. We’ll talk about the last assignment as well as the pre-lab for the current lab. I’ll also be answering questions and recap-ing specific topics on request.

Exercises

There will be 13 labs.

Groups

You will work in groups of two or three. You will switch groups after three or four labs.

You can chose your team mates. Please post the names of all group members on Moodle. I will not form groups for you, this is your own responsability. If you have not signed up a team by posting on Moodle, you won’t be able to hand anything in. I won’t accept groups that are made up of only one person. That is not a group.

Reports

Deadline

Lab Reports are due at 10pm the night before your next lab.

Grading

Lab reports won’t be graded - they just get marked with “ok” or “not ok”.
A report is “not ok” if any of the following is True:

the report is missing
you are not transparent on who did what
the report has too little significant content on the lab
the report is not submitted correctly (see below)
the code is not submitted correctly (see below)

You can use the late slot (see below) to hand in rejected Lab Reports again.

You will not be allowed to take the exam if you plagiarized.

Criteria

A report should contain:

a summary of what the lab was about
details on what you learned in this lab OR details on what the lab was about
if you were asked to write code: an explanation of how you tested your code
if questions were asked: the answers to the questions
a link to the private git repository with your code

Transparency You need to be transparent on who did what. Collaborating with people outside your group is ok, but be transparent about it! Using sources from the Internet/books is ok, but cite them appropriately!

Git Repository You’ll need to give me access rights to your git repository and put the link in your report.

What if I our group didn’t get the code to work? It’s ok not to have completely succeeded on the assignment, as long as you have tried sufficiently.

How long should the report be? Elegance lays in the ability to get to the point in as few sentences as necessary.

Language You can write in English or German.

How to submit correctly

Please submit only:

A pdf with your report
Included the pdf: a link to your private git repository

Only one team member should upload the report. If team members upload different reports (or different repos), I’ll chose one at random to review.

Late reports

You can hand in 4 reports after their deadline, until September 1st.

How to hand in late reports There are 4 “late slots” for handing in reports after the deadline, but they have to be handed in before September 1st.

But …! If you fall ill for more than a week or are unable to continuously work on the lab reports for some other reason, come talk to me or at least email me as early as possible and we will find an individual solution.