Stage 2 Activities/Stage 3 Planning -CompSci1

Group Participants

• Denise Ferebee <denisse_ferebee@loc.edu>
• Alberto Castro-Hernández <castroa@miamioh.edu>
• Matt Magnusson <matthew.magnusson@unh.edu>
• Farhan Siddiqui <siddiquf@dickinson.edu>

Planning an Initial HFOSS Learning Activity

Please discuss and record your group's approach for an initial learning activity. When you have a good draft description of the learning activity using the sections below, you could create a learning activity page for it by copying the Learning Activity Format with Directions.

Course targeted for the activity

Introduction to Computer Science -1

Brief description of the activity

Code Documentation

Time you expect the HFOSS activity to take

e.g. # classes, # homework assignments, # lab activities, etc.

Activity consisting of two parts - part A and part B. Part A to be completed in a 50-minutes class session (as a group of 2- 3 students). Part B will be an individual activity to be completed as homework.

Relationship of this activity to course goals/objectives

The activity aligns with one of the course goals "Best Practices in Programming"

What students will submit upon completion of the activity

• Code showing the following

     * clear comments
     * human readable variable names
     * human readable functions/methods

Planning Stage 3 Activities

Meetings

<Identify meeting times. Find out HFOSS project meeting times.>

Specific Tasks

<What will various group members do.>

Resources

<List any resources that you find>

• Activity list for CS1 (http://foss2serve.org/index.php/Category:CS1)
• UC Santa Cruz – Open Source Programming (Winter 2017) (http://teachingopensource.org/class/open-source-programming-winter-2017/)
• http://www.computingportal.org/
• http://www.swenet.org/

Other Notes

Prior related POSSE groups, if any:

When creating an activity, remove it from the Formats category.