CS 181-AR

Self Assessment 1

This is a self-assessment of your progress in the course so far. Please answer the questions honestly and thoughtfully.

Building a ZX Spectrum Game

Describe what was achieved overall in your ZX Spectrum game challenge (across all stages). What was the final product? What functionality was included? How polished was the final version?

Describe as your own specific contributions. What did you do? What was your role? What did you learn?

Describe the contributions of your teammates (include any contributions from coding assistants, ChatGPT, Claude, etc.). What did they do? What were their roles? What did you learn from them?

How would you rate your own performance on this part of the course?

Any additional comments…?

Building a Program for another Retro Computer

Describe what was achieved overall in this challenge (across all stages). What was the final product? What functionality was included? How polished was the final version?

Describe as your own specific contributions. What did you do? What was your role? What did you learn?

Describe the contributions of your teammates (include any contributions from coding assistants, ChatGPT, Claude, etc.). What did they do? What were their roles? What did you learn from them?

How would you rate your own performance on this part of the course?

Any additional comments…?

Building a ZX Spectrum Emulator

Describe what was achieved overall in this challenge (across all stages). What was the final product? What functionality was included? How polished was the final version?

Describe as your own specific contributions. What did you do? What was your role? What did you learn?

Describe the contributions of your teammates (include any contributions from coding assistants, ChatGPT, Claude, etc.). What did they do? What were their roles? What did you learn from them?

How would you rate your own performance on this part of the course?

Any additional comments…?

Overall Assessment (So Far)

In the syllabus, Prof. Melissa gave this guidance on grades an grading:

Many aspects of the course will be assessed on the following scale:

  • Outstanding!
  • Good
  • Proficient
  • Nearly There
  • Needs Work
  • Attempted
  • Not Attempted

In many contexts, you will be asked to self assess your own peformance on this scale. You will also be asked to assess your peers' work on this scale. I will also use this scale when assessing your work.

At the end of the semester, letter grades will be assigned based on a holistic review of your work throughout the semester. Roughly speaking, the following guidelines will be used:

  • A — Outstanding work, consistently demonstrating an impressive understanding of the material and going above and beyond the requirements of the course.
  • B — Good work, demonstrating a solid understanding of the material and meeting the requirements of the course.
  • C — Satisfactory work, demonstrating a basic understanding of the material and meeting the requirements of the course.
  • etc.

Overall

Using this terminology, how would you rate your overall performance in the course so far? If you were to guess what letter grade Prof. Melissa will assign you, in alignment with these principles, what would it be? Why?

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