Studio Sessions Overview:

• We gather as a community in studio session to learn from each other. Our community includes:
  • Instructor
  • TAs
  • Students
• Our community is egalitarian in terms of learning: all of us will have questions and all of us should try to provide answers.
• The idea is to challenge each other and to share what we discover.
• You are free (downright encouraged) to collaborate in this session:
  • Primarily within your small group of 3-5 people
  • Secondarily with any group in the class
  • As much as you like with the instructor and TAs
• In studio, the instructor's mission is to observe, interact, and work with groups.
  • How you think, work, and arrive at a solution is more important than getting the right answer. Thus, the instructor and TAs will observe you throughout the exercise and offer constructive feedback.
  • The help you receive may be incomplete at any given time, so that you can work through more of the solution on your own. Do not hesitate to ask for more help.
• In studio, the student's mission is to acquire new knowledge and skills by the collaborative solving of problems.
  • You are not graded on whether you get wrong or right answers on this exercise.
  • You are graded on your level of participation in studio.
• Participation is defined as
  • Asking questions, at any level, of any person in the studio
  • Discussing possible solutions with people in the studio
  • Helping somebody in the studio solve a problem
  • Presenting or demonstrating your solution to people in the studio
  • Documenting your group's experiences in studio
• Please eliminate external stimuli (cell phones, IM, Facebook) during studio. Please devote yourself to learning, mastering, and extending the material for the session.

The results of your studio session are to be reported and documented in a file that you save in your workspace. You are to commit that report prior to leaving studio. In the descriptions of the studio exercises, verbs like report and document are indications of activities you should summarize and discuss in your report.

In your groups, take turns documenting results, looking over shoulders, and staffing the keyboard.

It is unacceptable to copy anything without understanding it. At any point, the TA or instructor can point to something you've done and ask you why it works, or change it and ask what would happen with the modification.