The class looks strong and motivated judging by your posts and willingness to learn. The only potential cloud on the horizon is that there are very few installation tasks done by Monday morning. The course is not a rocket science and basically simple. The problems might come to those who postpones task completion till last day(s). Programming is different from just textual content subjects by the immediate existence of the feedback showing if you really understand the studied mechanism – to see if your program works. And if while reading it seems simple and obvious, you might be surprised that the program doesn't work – it means that you really missed something in your understanding and have to re-read and re-try the program until it works. This need to completely finish your tasks every week and in advance, giving yourself time for possible technical and technological difficulties and their solution (that sometimes might take days to figure out), – is extremely important for the good grade and your learning.
Another important point I want to make (which will make your learning easier and more successful) is in my close attention to your attendance (read Introductory Notes). I can post some comments to your forum and assignment posts and if they are done early – you might have a chance to make proper changes – so do it. This means attendance again. If a student will have serious difficulties (and those with late task completion and/or inability to make programs work as required – will definitely have such difficulties) – then poor attendance in my view will be the main thing to blame, you will not get the possible support the might be available from me and other students, and finally will face the growing amount of work and things to understand and master which you might not be able to overcome. In every course some students fail because of this. This is why I am spending time for the warning.
This blog will be one of the important places where I will reflect on your learning and comment on some important concepts.
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