Week 2 [Mon, Jan 20th] - Summary

Umm... you've finished Week 1 tasks already, right? If not, please finish them first before starting on this week's tasks.

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[MUST-WATCH] Briefing Videos for Week 2

This week's briefing videos start with a detour.

0. Detour: SDLC Basics: Watch the following video covering the week 2 topic 'SDLC Process Models Basics', as the concepts covered in there are referenced in the rest of the course briefing.

Video 6 mins -- Detour: SDLC Basics

1. Iterative + Brownfield = ???: How the iterative and brownfield approach taken by the course impacts your learning experience.

Video 6 mins

2. Challenges and Solutions: How to tackle three challenges you'll face in the course, namely, information overload, workload, and technical problems.

Video 11 mins

3. Week 1->2 Briefing (Week 1 Recap + Week 2 Preview): This video recaps Week 1 and gives a preview of what you need to do in Week 2.
Note: While weekly briefings are normally done in hybrid mode, this week's briefing is released as a pre-recorded video, to allow you to get started with week 2 tasks early.

Video 4 mins

Week 2->3 Briefing (Week 2 Recap + Week 3 Preview) will be done in hybrid mode -- you can attend it F2F (@UTown-AUD2 Fri, Jan 24th from 4pm), join via Zoom, watch the recording later, or skip it altogether).

iP Help Session (Fri, Jan 24th from 4.50pm): This above weekly briefing will be followed by a F2F session to help those who are stuck in the iP due to technical difficulties. To attend that help session, be in UTown-AUD2 at least by 4.50pm.

Admin Weekly Schedule → Extract

Before attempting weekly project tasks, go through the weekly topics as the knowledge from those topics may be needed to complete the project tasks.

Week 2 Canvas quiz will open by week 1 Wednesday (earlier than the normal opening time of Friday 4pm).

Topics:

  • [W2.2] SDLC Process Models: Basics

  • [W2.3] RCS: Revision History

  • [W2.4] RCS: Remote Repos

  • [W2.5] IDEs: Basic Features

  • [W2.6] Automated Testing of Text UIs

Full ToC

Admin:

  1. Submit weekly quiz Fri, Jan 24th 1600
  2. Get connected to our communication channels

iP:

  1. Learn about the project
  2. Set up prerequisites
  3. Set up the project in your computer
  4. Add Increments while committing frequently: Level-0, Level-1, Level-2, Level-3, Level-4, A-TextUiTesting, Level-5, Level-6, A-Enums Fri, Jan 24th 1600