Digital Journal
Prerequisites[edit]
Background[edit]
Introduction[edit]
Your journey through these computer science experiences will benefit greatly by journaling. Each journal entry will have four parts:
- A brief journal header
- The second part of your journal will have a prescribed format. Here, you'll have the opportunity to ponder about phenomena that you've observed and answer some questions.
- The third part of your journal entry will address some open-ended prompts that will be the same for each experience.
- The final part is your opportunity to further explore the experience on your own.
Conventions[edit]
Journal Location and Name[edit]
All of your journals will be located in a subdirectory of your home directory, called "Journals". Let's create that directory now.
john-williams@codermerlin:~$ cd
john-williams@codermerlin:~$ mkdir Journals
john-williams@codermerlin:~$ cd Journals
john-williams@codermerlin:~/Journals$
Each file will be named in accordance with the identifier of the experience with an extension of ".journal". Let's create the journal for experience W1002 and enter the editor:
john-williams@codermerlin:~/Journals$ emacs W1002.journal
Journaling Requirements[edit]
- The first part of your journal will be a simple header with your name, the journal identifier, and the date that you started writing the journal. Type that into emacs now:
1 | Jane Williams
2 | Journal for W1002
3 | 18-May-2024
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- The second part of your journal will have a prescribed format, as determined by the specific observation boxes in that experience. As an example, consider the following two boxes from W1002:
- Name at least two other services that you personally use which are implemented using a Client/Server Model
- It appears that both Jack Williams and John Williams can have a directory of the same name. Do you think the ability to have two different users create a directory of the same name is important? Why?
These questions should be labeled in your journal using the convention Section.Question followed by a newline character. Use complete sentences and leave a blank line between questions. In this example, there are two sections with one question in each section. In emacs, we'd continue as follows:
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6 | 1.1
7 | One of the other services that I use is...
8 | Another of the services that I use is...
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10 | 2.1
11 | I think that the ability to have two different users...
The third section will address some questions that require a bit more thought. These same questions will be answered for each experience. Let's add these lines to emacs now:
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13 | What did I learn? What is the "big idea"?
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15 | What challenges did I encounter?
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17 | How could this experience be improved?
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- The final part of your journal is titled "Free Reflection." It's an opportunity for you to reflect on your experience and how it has impacted your thinking.
Template[edit]
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Exercises[edit]
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