2025-10-30

• Total course
• Author: Richel

Course as a whole

Here I mark changes we made to this course:

Day	Time	Teacher	Subject
Friday	09:00-10:00	Lars	Software development life cycle
Friday	10:15-11:00	Richel	Issues and kanban board
Friday	11:15-12:00	Richel	assert
Friday	13:00-14:00	Richel	TDD 1
Friday	14:15-15:00	Richel	TDD 2
Friday	15:00-15:40	Richel	Formal testing framework -> TDD at a bigger scale
Friday	15:40-16:00	Lars	Confidence and retrospect
Monday	09:00-10:00	Björn	Formal git workflow, branches
Monday	10:15-11:00	Björn	Formal git workflow, merge
Monday	11:15-12:00	Björn	Formal git workflow, contribute & Social coding and sharing
Monday	13:00-14:00	Richel	Pair programming
Monday	14:15-15:00	Richel	Pair programming
Monday	15:15-15:40	Richel	Formal testing framework -> Pair programming
Monday	15:40-16:00	Lars	Confidence and retrospect
Tuesday	09:00-09:45	Richel	Function design -> Continuous integration
Tuesday	10:00-10:45 -> 10:00-11:00	Richel	Expressive data type -> Continuous integration
Tuesday	11:00-12:00 -> 11:15-12:00	Lars	Object-oriented design
Tuesday	13:00-14:00	Richel	Has-a relation and class design -> class design
Tuesday	14:15-15:00	Lars	Modular programming
Tuesday	15:15-15:40	Richel -> Lars	Continuous integration -> Modular programming
Tuesday	15:40-16:00	Lars	Confidence and retrospect
Wednesday	09:00-09:45	Richel	Implement the project as a package
Wednesday	10:00-11:00	Richel	Runtime speed profiles, Improve run-time speed -> Runtime speed profiles
Wednesday	11:15-12:00	Björn	Deployment
Wednesday	13:00-13:30	Björn	Deployment
Wednesday	13:30-13:50	Björn	Documentation
Wednesday	14:05-15:00	Björn	Documentation
Wednesday	15:15-15:40	Lars	Wrap-up
Wednesday	15:40-16:00	Lars	Confidence and retrospect

• [x] Consider menioning pyOpenSci: it results in a paper!

Commits of teachers

• Analysis script

I was interested in the commits: who of us committed when?

I see that some of us work outside of working hours and in the weekends. Maybe this puts too much stress on us?

On the other hand: I am super happy with working at my weirder hours :-)

Commits of learners

• Analysis script

I was interested in the commits: who of us committed when?

I am happy to see no learners worked in the weekend and most commit under course hours :-)

To discuss at a meeting

If a coordinator does not have the proper time to do his/her job, consider reducing the amount of teaching hours for that teacher, so he/she has the time to do so.

If a teacher does not have the proper time to prepare, consider reducing the amount of teaching hours for that teacher, so he/she has the time to focus on those fewer hours.

I think all of us should follow the NBIS 'Train the Trainer' course, as I think some more knowledge on teaching would help us prepare our lessons better.

If a teacher does not read the evaluation results, lets not bother the learners by asking those questions.

As we do not actually work on a project, I suggest to remove pretending to do so or add more time for this. In any case, I do think we should keep working on a shared repository.

I suggest to expand the programming languages we use, i.e. R and Bash, as per request of some future learners. This will mainly affect Richel. This will be easiest to do if there is no shared project.

As we do not use issues in practice, I suggest to remove the session on issues.

As we do not use the kanban board in practice, I suggest to remove the session on kanban board.

As we do not use the risk assessment in practice, I suggest to remove that section.

As we do not use the requirements document in practice, I suggest to remove that section.

As our learners are academics, I suggest to replace a requirements document by a draft paper.

As we do not apply the content of 'Modularity' in practice, I suggest to remove this session.

As I think there is too big of a gap between the content of 'Object oriented development' and all other lectures, I suggest to rewrite or remove it.

As I think there should be enough time for function design, I suggest to remove all sessions on OOP, unless functions can be discussed properly.

Course feedback

For 1 and 2 i think you could add some more illustation to make them less bland and help differenciate the different parts.

I like that there is a summary at the end of the first one and i think the other two could also use a summary to make it simpler to remind yourself without having to read the whole thing all over again. Also i think they should go deeper into what you are expected to learn in the learning outcomes for all of them and maybe add some learning outcomes for 1. Not really needed but it could be a good idea to add some more difficult problems for those who are ahead to solve

1. Deploy your code

• Add some illustrations
• Add more learning outcomes
• Explain deeper what you will learn
• Consider adding more difficult problems for the quicker learners

2. Improve runtime speed

• [X] Add some illustrations
• Add a summary
• Explain deeper in the outcomes
• Consider adding more difficult problems for the quicker learners

3. Object Oriented development

• Add summary
• Explain further in the outcomes
• Consider adding more difficult problems for the quicker learners

Course feedback

For each course material i would like to see a summary, that in the course material it says what you will be learning.

I would like if there were some questions that can prepair you for what's comming.

I would also like some images that shows how to do some steps or to make the the course material more intresting to read about.

Looking at images is also a way to get a quick glance of what the course material is about.

And of course i want there to be some information about what you will be learning.

1. Documentation

The course material looks interesting and it does make me want to take the course. I like how in the begining it shows what you will be learning in the course and with the summary at the end it makes it clear what you will be learning. It does have some group questions that you are going to do, but not questions that you can take or try to solve before you start the course. And the course doesn't have any images, which is okay but it does make the course material look pretty bland and not very interesting to look at.

• [ ] Consider adding (more) images

2. Package

It has a learning outcome that tells what students will be learning, and it has questions about the material, and where to find the answers. And if you are still not sure if you did correct it has answer button that shows you if you got it correct. It does also have a image, but it's not that clear of what it is about. It has no text that's conected to the picture, the only thing that can be connected is the word "Why?" So that's a little confusing.

• [x] Make it clear what the image is about
• [x] Make the header 'Why?' more descriptive

And there wasn't that much information about anything really. The whole course material is almost only exercises, no text or imformation at all. It does have some webpages with the information and that's good but i really would like for the course material to have more information.

3. Refactoring and Modular programming

I like how it has a learning outcome for both part's of the programs, one for refactoring and one for modular programming. It dosn't have a summary, which is one of the most iportant things. It does have images that are clear what they are about. They have a text that very clearly explains what the picture is about. It does also have some exercises with the answers. But i dosn't have a summary.