Week 2: Project presentations #1: lo-fi sketches, concept maps

In class this week. each project will give a brief presentation followed by discussion/Q&A going into more detail on the project idea. The goal is to get feedback from the instructors and rest of the class on how to further refine before starting to build.

1. Read the Concept Maps Guide Links to an external site. linked in this same module to get the general idea of concept maps.
2. Consulting with course staff/instructor(s) for the course most closely related to your projects, derive a partial concept map that shows the concept(s) exercised by your project and a few of the adjacent (prerequisites and subsequent concepts) nodes as well. Sketches are fine. Prof. Garcia has examples from CS10 if that helps.
3. Come up with a couple of lo-fi UI sketches or storyboards Links to an external site. illustrating an example question or workflow of a student working with your exercise. Just do pencil-and-paper sketches and snap a picture for your slide. Don't spend time now using a wireframing tool: that is likely to make you focus on the tool rather than on the broad outlines of the sketch. We're hoping to see only hand-drawn quick sketches in class—the goal is to get something that is just good enough for discussion and focuses on the content of the exercises.
4. Be prepared to talk through the sketches, concept map, and how your proposed exercise(s) address the other STAR criteria. The concept map should take care of Specific and Tagged, so focus on how Autograding will be done and how Randomization can generate multiple variants.
5. You should be able to capture all the above in at most 3-4 slides, which you'll present this week. It's fine (in fact preferable) if the slides have only pictures and no text—the goal is not a standalone deck but just enough visuals to accompany your verbal description. Submit the URL of the deck (one per team) before class time this week.