Schedule

Mastery learning

Traditional classes are time-based learning. You spend a specific amount of time on a topic and then you move on to the next topic. For example, in 220 you might cover while and for loops in week 5, take a quiz on them, and then move on to ArrayLists in week 6. Suppose you got a 75% on that quiz in week 5. That means that you did not learn 25% of the material.  In week 10 you take a test on inheritance and get an 80% (you did not master 20% of the material). These gaps in your mastery start adding up, and eventually, in some future class you will hit a wall.

In contrast, in Mastery Learning you stay on the topic until you master it. You work at your own pace. The bulk of this class centers on this approach.  You stay on a topic until you master it.  The lectures are a set of videos (mostly screencasts) that you can watch at anytime.

Some class elements  are traditional time-based ones and they are indicated on the schedule below.

Actual scheduled events are listed in bold.

Suggested schedule of videos is indicated in green.

Suggested dates to finish projects is indicated in blue.

General topics to be working on are indicated in gray.

week 1

• Monday 29 August – intro
• Basic Flask running on c9. 
• Basic Flask templates

week 2

• Monday 5 September – day off – Labor Day
• Wednesday 7 September – RAT 1 hfSQL ch1&2
  • sample of the type of homework I will give
• rudiment: Basic Flask Templates
• Simple Forms
• Postgres on c9

week 3

• Monday 12 September – Lightning Round 0 (lightning round prep)
  • worksheet
  • world.sql
• Python and Postgres
• rudiment: Where in the World
• rudiment: Flask/PostgreSQL

week 4

• Monday 19 September – RAT 2 hfSQL ch3, 4, 5 & 12
  • homework for those with 30 or fewer points
• rudiment: Where in the World

week 5

• Monday 26 September – Lightning Round 1 (helpful to bring textbook)
  • tomato.sql
  • world.sql (drop your old world db and install this one)
• rudiment: Session Task

week 6

• Monday 3 October- RAT 3  hfSQL ch 6, 7
  • HW 3 for those with fewer than 42 points.

week 7

• Monday 10 October – Lightning Round 2
  • world.sql (you already have)
  • umw.sql
  • tomatoes2p.sql (new version)
  • NOTE: these databases are not in 3NF in order for you to work on simple queries before we work on those involving joins. In Real Life we would not design databases in this way.
• Wednesday 12 October sprint demos
• rudiment: SocketIO task 1

week 8

• Monday 18 October – Fall Break
• Wednesday rudiment: SocketIO task 2

week 9

• Monday 24 October – 
• RAT hfSQL ch 8, 9, 10
• Sprint 1 demo
  • eCom
• Wednesday
• Lightning Round 3 
• additional join info
  • World7.sql
  • Chinook  (NOTE: This does not create a database)
  • Movies
• Project Sprint 1 demo
  • talk to me to sign up

week 10

• Monday 31 October

week 11

• Workload survey
• Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals

week 12

• noSQL lab1

week 13

• Wednesday 23 November -Thanksgiving break
• noSQL map reduce

week 15

• noSQL project demo