course-org.md

Course Organization

Dates, Lightning Talks, Exams, Grading, etc.

CLIL - Let's Switch to English

• Content and Language Integrated Learning
• Use a foreign language in teaching
• FAQ
  • Does CLIL replace English courses? No
  • Will your English skills be graded? No
  • Can you ask questions in German? Yes, of course
  • Can we switch to German if you don't understand my English? Yes, please ask
  • Will written exams be in English? You can choose
  • Will oral exams be in English? You can choose
  • Will CLIL be noted in your course certificate? No
  • Can we stop CLIL if it doesn't work? Yes, but please give it a try

Course Organization

• Online Course Calendar
• Get Course Material from GitHub
  • Feel free to contribute
• Curriculum (source)
  • Semester 7: Webapplikationen, Socket-API
  • Semester 8: Mobile Applications, Entwicklungsumgebungen, Einbindung in das Anwendungssystem

Lessons

• Theory lessons
  • 10 minutes for lightning talk
  • Lesson content: A bit of theory, many demos
• Exercise lessons
  • Mainly exercises on GitHub
  • A few official tutorials

Lightning Talks

• What is a Lightning Talk?
  • Max. 7 minutes for presentation, rest for questions
  • Consider PechaKucha-style
  • Examples: PechaKucha, "Nerdy" one with demo
• Any interesting technology topic (preferably mobile computing-related)
  • Suggestions
• Add your talk's subject to Online Course Calendar (details will follow later)

Lightning Talks Grading Criteria

• Prepared for the presentation (e.g. handout, PPT, demo)
• Structure of the presentation
• Demonstrated understanding of the material
• Demonstrated critical thinking skills
• Took information from different sources and created something interesting
• Time management skills (concise presentation in <= 7 minutes)

Exams

• Four written exams
  • Practical programming
• One optional oral exam per semester
  • Chance to mend bad mark in written exam
  • Requested by teacher or you
• Dates see Online Course Calendar

Homeworks

• Everybody must do every homework
• Random sample is checked
  • No need to be perfect, hand in your best try
  • Earn max. 2 points for a good homework
  • Minus 2 points for missing homework

Grading

• Max. 80 points for exams
  • Max. 20 points per exam
• Max. 10 points for lightning talk
• Max. 10 points homeworks
• Optionally: Max. 20 points for oral exam

Grading

Grade	Min. % (incl.)
1	91
2	76
3	61
4	50
5	Less than 50 %