Kernel Development Learning Pipeline

Final Presentation Guidelines 🎯 🏹

This is your last opportunity to demonstrate your skills and reflect on what you’ve learned in the course.

Outcomes:

• Practice your soft skills

• Give an engaging technical presentation

• Reflect and connect your work to the bigger picture

Presentation requirements:

• 10 ± 1 minutes long

• Start with the demonstration of F1

  • It is required and must include the components outlined below

• You must include some course reflection, however:

  • Depending on how much time presenting F1 takes you will have more or less time for this section

  • Be prepared to get cut off if we hit the time limit for your presentation slot

What to present:

• Demonstration your work on F1

  • You must present this section from your live terminal/editor

  • You must present the version of your module from your final submission unmodified

  • You must build, load, test, and unload the module

  • You must discuss your design choices and how you approached the spec and tests you were given

  • You must explain and if possible demonstrate the thread and memory safety of your code

• Course reflection and feedback

  • You must present this section with slides

  • Choose your favorites from the prompts below

    • You will not be able to cover all of them in the time given

    • Pick a few that you think you can particularly speak to

  • Reflection prompts:

    • In your own words, what did you learn in this class?

      • Try and pick 2-3 important topics

      • How did your work on specific assignments build your understanding?

    • How does your work fit into the big picture of…?

      • Your academic career

      • Your software engineering skill development

      • Your understanding of open source software

    • What assignments did you particularly enjoy or not enjoy?

      • Explain why your felt that way

      • For those you enjoyed, how could you go further?

      • For those you did not enjoy, how could we improve?

    • Pick an assignment you struggled with:

      • How did you overcome your obstacles?

      • How will your approach differ if you did it again?

    • Pick and assignment you excelled at:

      • What made your work exceptional?

      • Do you have any advice for future students?

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