CPNT 265 Achievements

Course Achievements

Points will be awarded for documentation of your final project prior to the Final Presentations.

Documentation

Project Proposal: 10 points
- Write a professional-level proposal for your final project.
- Detailed requirements to be announced on Day 3.
- Example proposal
Lean Canvas: 10 points
- Document Plan A of your final project using Lean Canvas
- Detailed requirements to be announced on Day 1.
Flowchart/Pseudo-code diagram: 5 points
Wireframes: 5 points
Design Mockups/Composites: 5 points
Task Board: 1 point per feature (max 10 points)
- Using GH Projects, Trello or similar task tracking tool:
  1. Optional: Create a "Final Presentation" repo for your tasks.
  2. Create a card representing a task you need to complete for your final presentation. Put it in a To Do, Backlog or similar list.
  3. To submit: Take screencap of project board and total your point for a single Brightspace submission.
- A "Task" is loosely defined but it should be a non-trivial activity that brings you closer to your Final Presentation project. Examples:
  - "Implement personal access token for GitHub API"
  - "Create logic flowchart for sign-in process"
  - "Create image gallery from JSON data using fetch and a loop"
- Tasks should be submitted in good faith: no cheesy tasks like "tie shoelaces".

Note: A project proposal can be combined with lean canvas documentation for a combined 15 points. All other items can be built independently or as supporting documentation for a Proposal/Canvas.

Stage work

Points to be awarded for mini presentations to your classmates.

Mini-lectures
- Cameras-on
- Time limit
  - Individual: 5 minutes
  - Group (3 max): 10 minutes
- Points awarded:
  - First presentation: 10 points;
  - Second presentation: 5 point;
  - Bonus points for Slides (one achievement per person): 5 points;
  - Additional presentations can be complete but points will not be awarded;
  - Group presentations: points are awarded to each presenter.
Instructional video: 10 points
- 10 minute time limit
- Bookends required (title/credit screens)
- 5 bonus points for openly licensed theme song!
Battlefield Discussion: 5 points
- Involved a real life project?
  - Back story:
    - What's your experience working with clients?
    - How did you find this client?
    - What's the project?
  - Guiding questions:
    - What would you like to discuss?
    - What are the goals for the discussion?
  - Goals
    - What do you hope to achieve with the client/project
- Book a round-table discussion in the main room if you have information you can share that would be of value to the rest of your classmates.
  - 5 point bonuses available for the value added by the audience.
- To submit: summarize the points covered in the discussion in your submitted README along with any relevant documentation.
- 30 mins max
Pair coding: 10 points (per coder)
- 15 mins toward a shared goal
- Change seats at least twice
- Second session paired coding: 5 points

General Business Best Practices

Contracts
- Privacy Policies: 5 points
  - Use case: Privacy policy defined for Pintrest developer account

Friendly Neighbour

Points to be awarded when submitting making the world a better place for other coders.

Pull Requests: 5 points
- Submit a Pull Request to a public repo
- Submission must fix a real issue in the repo. No "my first pull request" exercises.
- Repo must be a legitimate project. IOW, repos belonging to a classmate or the instructor do not qualify.
- 5 point bonus for a PR that is accepted and merged.
Contribution - Lean Canvas: 5 points
- Take part in (and add value to) a Lean Canvas exercise for another classmate.
Technical activity for Winter 2022 semester
- 10 points: Authenticated API step-by-step
  - Pre-requisites
  - Instructions, from start to finish, linking to official documentation when possible
  - Starter code
  - Spoiler code
  - Attributions
Mini-workshop: 10 points
- Hosting a technical activity (see above) for fellow students and instructors
- 30 minutes demo max
- 5 points: available for anyone who attempts the activity and submits feedback for improvement

Extra Achievements

The following activities can be completed for further marks in CPNT 265.

Plugin' away

3rd-party plugin/library implementation: 5 points
- Show that you've installed and implemented a 3rd party plugin from the following list
  - Greensock, anime.js, etc
  - Chart.js or similar
  - Tone.js
  - ???
Activity/Exercise: 5 points
- Submit a step-by-step activity that other students/learners can follow to complete a nerdy task. For example:
  - As an addition to another Plugin' Away achievement
  - A learning exercise that can be used for future lessons in this program
Frontend Framework Implementation: 10 points
- Implement a sample app using one of the following frameworks:
  - ReactJS
  - VueJS components not covered in class
  - Svelte

Devops

Custom Domain on HTTPS: 5 points
- Deploy a web site or app with a custom domain
- Must be deployed to a live server such as GH Pages, Heroku or similar
- Security certificate must be used to deploy domain on HTTPS
API Authentication: 5 points
- Create an Authentication key/token
  - Token-based
  - OAuth
- Implement a Minimal Viable Product (MPV) implementing the API
- Above and Beyond bonus: 5 points
  - additional achievement for extra tricky APIs
  - Examples:
    - Multiple tokes/keys
      - Twitter bearer tokens

Presentation Day

Roster card information: 5 points
- Information items
  - Display Name
    - Does not have to be full name
    - Can be your nickname/handle
  - Profile image
    - aspect ratio: squarish
    - resolution: 500x500px or smaller
    - format: jpg, png, gif, webp
  - Tagline/Title
    - Examples:
      - "Nuxt/Node/MongoDB"
      - "Junior Developer"
      - "Mother, Knitter, Coder"
      - "When's Mando Season 3 Coming Out?!?" (this would not be considered a professional tagline)
  - Contact links (optional)
    - Homepage url
    - Email address
  - Social home page URLs
    - GitHub (highly recommended)
    - Optional: Codepen, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, etc
- Submission instructions:
  - Upload profile image file to Brightspace with other information listed in a Brightspace comment.

Tool time

Demonstration of skillz in a specialized software tool, such as:

Vector editors
Raster image editors
Deployment utilities
Testing
etc

Stage Crew

Points to be negotiated.

Trophy Icons
Feature Development
OBS Help