Weekly Journal : Midpoint Project Reflection

Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by questioning answers. — Bernard Haisch

For this entry, take a some time to reflect on the project's progress at approximately its midpoint, by analyzing your own role on the team and drawing conclusions about how the final outcome could be improved. These efforts at meta-cognition helps you deepen your learning by making you more aware of your own thinking and more active in your education.

Submitting Your Work

Submit a Markdown formatted plain text file, named week14_oogasalad_midpoint.md, to the individual portfolio_NETID repository provided for you in the course's Gitlab group.

Specification

Feedback Reflection

Reflect on the feedback you have received in this course from peers, UTAs, and instructors. Consider the critiques, suggestions, and insights you garnered during that process, and how they shaped your understanding and approach to learning and improving as a programmer.

• Describe at least two things you learned from written or interactive feedback from any of the Teaching Team
• Describe at least two things you learned from interactions with your fellow students (whether on your team or not)
  
• Describe at least two things you learned from any of the course resources (such as readings, code examples, refactorings, etc.)
• Describe at least two things you learned from any outside resources (such as tutorials, StackOverflow, ChatGPT, etc.)
  
• From that variety of sources, describe at least two ways in which your strategy, decision-making, planning, or execution has changed for this Final Project

In your examples, articulate specific lessons you've learned, the adjustments you've made, and the insights you've gained through the course's iterative process. Reflect on the value of feedback as a catalyst for growth and improvement, and consider how you can continue to refine your skills and approach moving forward.

Project Midpoint Reflection

Reflect on the project's progress, planning and tracking it using Agile guidelines, and what you can still do to improve over the remainder of the project.

Use the following questions to guide your reflection:

• Consider the scope of the project you are in the middle of working on
  • Describe one challenging design issue you have worked on
  • Describe the most challenging design issue the team has faced and how it was approached, discussed, and "solved"
  • Describe the best aspect of working on a project with this many people
  • Describe the most challenging aspect of working on a project with this many people
  • Describe the best aspect of organizing a project using Agile Sprints
  • Describe the most challenging aspect of organizing a project using Agile Sprints
• Think about what practices, rather than the work you have produced so far, can best help you finish the project successfully
  • Visualize and then describe what would be a successful outcome for this project
  • Visualize and then describe what would be a unsuccessful outcome for this project
  • Based on those visions, what things do you personally have control over to help make it successful

ChatGPT

ChatGPT can help you generate ideas, create example code, review, refactor, or even debug code. While you are not required to use it, if you do, I think it would be helpful to share our collective experiences. To that end, each week's Journal will include a place for you to share how you used ChatGPT in more detail than would typically be found when attributing it within your code or README file. I have also created an ED thread tag for ChatGPT. This exercise can also help you reflect on how to use it more deliberately and usefully.

• Describe two situations in which you sought help from ChatGPT and whether or not its responses were ultimately helpful
• Describe one situation in which you refined ChatGPT's response and what information learned in this course helped you engineer your prompts or try these examples
• Give one direct prompt you provided ChatGPT (also note which version of ChatGPT you are using: free, turbo, or 4)