Code repositories
For this lab, you will write a lot of code. All (incremental additions to) the code for the lab assignments are kept in a private git repository that is hosted on GitHub, inside the GitHub Classroom used for this course. (Please don't register yet until you've read the full introduction.) This is the only way to turn in code, any other channels, such as e-mail, are rejected.
If you do not know how to use git, you must familiarize yourself with it first. This is an essential skill for your future career. We consider this a prerequisite to the course. There are many tutorials online, and sometimes cheatsheets come in handy when you start to use git. There are also GUIs that may be useful to those that don't like working on the command-line.
The snapshot of the code in your assignment repository on the master branch,
at the moment the deadline expires, will be your submission. Make sure to make
your last commit before the deadline!
We recommend students to work on branches, and make pull requests to their
master branch once the code they are trying to implement is complete. These
pull requests can be reviewed by their teammates or by the TAs to provide early
feedback.
The feedback mechanism is also explicitly available in your GitHut Classroom
repository as a pull request that is made when your repository is first
initialized. To trigger the TA's to start reviewing your master branch, you can
also use this pull request (PRs). It will be named Feedback #1 and can be
found by clicking Pull requests, then the Feedback #1 PR. You can then ask
for a review from the TAs; either user anneriet or prince-ph0en1x. Also see the
figure below: This is not available this year because there is only 1 TA and I am very busy, sorry. If you have questions/want feedback, please come to me during the lab or use the Brightspace forum.
Here is an example of feedback that we can provide based on the Feedback #1 PR.
Note that you can also request reviews on any other PR if you want.
Because we have limited capacity, we do ask you to request a review only when you've made either very significant contributions, or preferably when you think you have completed the assignment. TA priority will be based on groups ordered by number of review requests performed (e.g. groups who have had only one request will go before groups who have had several reviews).