Kernel Development Learning Pipeline

Final Presentation Guidelines 🎯 🏹

This is your opportunity to demonstrate your skills, reflect on what you’ve learned in the course, and give the instructors feedback.

Outcomes:

• Practice your soft skills
• Reflect on what you have learned
• Demonstrate your technical prowess
• Connect your work to the bigger picture

What to present:

• Course reflection and feedback (10 mins)
  • 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 sofware
  • 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?
  • You must present this section with slides
• Demonstration your work on F1 (10 mins)
  • You must present your initial submission unmodified
  • You must build, load, test, and unload the module
  • You must show the key features of the module
  • You must discuss your design choices
  • You must present this section from your live terminal/editor
• Questions and live coding challenge (10-15 mins)
  • We will spend a couple of minutes on questions about your demo
    • Prepare to defend your engineering choices
    • Expect to explain the thread and memory safety of your code
  • We will give you a small coding problem, such as:
    • Fixing a bug in your module
    • Adding a small feature to your module
• Total presentation length must be 30-35 minutes

Tips:

• Refer back to your assignment cover letters.
• Do more than summarize assignment descriptions. Synthesize insight in your own words.
• If your initial submission is incomplete, don’t panic. You can discuss what’s broken and how you will fix it.