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Retrospective day 5

Only Day 5 here :-)

Please, no pointing fingers (I am sure Jon would want me to say that :-) )

What went well?

  • Pairing works much better +1
  • Using HackMD for UML was very nice. +2
  • learning what modules are
  • nice too have R examples +1
  • Using HackMD to code rather than screen sharing +3
  • Activity diagram +2
  • Once it worked, plantUML in VS code was very nice

What held us back?

  • Still material and exercise description
  • The presentation is less informative to follow on
  • did not finish all of morning lecture +1
  • some changes are not staged after Git pulling. No change..
  • More info about use-cases/activity diagrams. Use, differences etc.
  • morning exercises rushed
  • maybe somewhat unclear difference between use-case and activity diagrams +1
  • UML issues +3
  • too little time for material and exercises of morning session
  • profiling part was a little diffuse

What can we improve?

  • spend more time on use-case and activity diagrams +3
  • provide the uml code for diagram examples in lecture
  • Written instructions for exercises
  • talk more about design patterns +1 or maybe share some nice tutorials
  • Have a mini start-to-end exercise after the course where we can spend half the day running through a small piece of coding. Practise all of it.
  • Be clearcut on what to do in the exercise.
  • examples for optimisation showing well- and poorly-optimised examples +1