course-org.md

Course Organization

Dates, Lightning Talks, Exams, Grading, etc.

CLIL - Let's Switch to English

• Content and Language Integrated Learning
• Use a foreign language in teaching
• FAQ
  • Does CLIL replace English courses? No
  • Will your English skills be graded? No
  • Can you ask questions in German? Yes, of course
  • Can we switch to German if you don't understand my English? Yes, please ask
  • Will written exams be in English? You can choose
  • Will oral exams be in English? You can choose
  • Will CLIL be noted in your course certificate? No
  • Can we stop CLIL if it doesn't work? Yes, but please give it a try

Course Organization

• Online Course Calendar
• Get Course Material from GitHub
  • Feel free to contribute
• View Course Slides
• Watch course recordings on YouTube

Curriculum 9. Semester

• Quelle
• Bildungs- und Lehraufgabe:
  Die Schülerinnen und Schüler können
  • [...]
  • serverbasierte verteilte Systeme entwerfen, implementieren und testen.
• Lehrstoff:
  • Evaluierung und Vergleich komplexer Netzwerksysteme, serviceorientierte Architektur.
  • Enterprise Application Architecture, Server Applications, Middle Ware.

Curriculum 10. Semester

• Quelle
• Bildungs- und Lehraufgabe:
  Die Schülerinnen und Schüler können
  • [...]
  • komplexe verteilte Systeme entwerfen, auf aktuellen Entwicklungsplattformen implementieren, in Betrieb nehmen und strukturiert testen.
• Lehrstoff:
  • Sicherheitskonzepte, Sicherheitslösungen.
  • Komplexe verteilte Systeme, Multi-Tier-Systeme, Cloud Computing.

Necessary Software

• We focus on open-source, platform-independent development
• Use Windows, Linux or Mac
  • Windows is the most convenient option
• For Xamarin development
  • See C# Course
• For Cloud Computing:
  • Visual Studio Code
  • Docker Desktop
• Install at least the following plugins to VSCode:
  • Docker
  • Encode Decode
  • REST Client

Lessons

• 10 minutes for lightning talk
• Theoretical basis
• Practical demos, live coding, architecture discussions
• Approx. 5-10 minutes discussion and summary

Lightning Talks

• What is a Lightning Talk?
  • Max. 7 minutes for presentation, rest for questions
  • Consider PechaKucha-style
  • Examples: PechaKucha, "Nerdy" one with demo
• Any interesting technology topic (preferably mobile computing-related)
  • Suggestions
  • Submit topics using a pull request for Online Course Calendar

Lightning Talks Grading

Criteria	Points
Prepared for the presentation (e.g. handout, PPT, demo)	20
Structure of the presentation	5
Demonstrated understanding of the material	20
Demonstrated critical thinking skills	15
Took information from different sources and created something interesting	25
Time management skills (concise presentation in <= 7 minutes)	15

Exams

• Four written exams
  • Practical programming
• One optional oral exam per semester
  • Chance to mend bad mark in written exam
  • Requested by teacher or you
• Dates see Online Course Calendar

Homeworks

• Everybody must do every homework
• Random sample is checked
  • No need to be perfect, hand in your best try
  • Earn max. 2 points for a good homework
  • Minus 2 points for totally missing homework

Grading

• Max. 80 points for exams
  • Max. 20 points per exam
• Max. 10 points for lightning talk
• Max. 10 points homeworks
• Optionally: Max. 20 points for oral exam

Grading

Grade	Min. Percentage (incl.)
1	89
2	76
3	63
4	50
5	Less than 50 perc.