Peer to Peer Project Review

Learning Goals

explain their strategy for approaching a problem
analyze strategies used by another programmer to compare to their own strategies
explain how their code works in technical terms

5 min - Warm Up
10 min - Breaking the Problem Down
10 min - Testing Strategies
5 min - Break
10 min - Logic Solutions
5 min - Wrap Up

Thoroughly re-read through the project spec. Note any new understanding you’ve found from this.

With your partner, talk through each section, taking turns to share your strengths and struggles.

From a high level, in a broad way, talk through your process for attacking this project.

Where did you start?
- What were the pros of that strategy?
- What were the cons of that strategy?
- Did you have to change anything after you started?
What classes have you used to solve this problem? Why?
- How did you decide what functionality lives in which class?

How has testing this project gone for you?
- What functionality was the most difficult to test? How did you overcome that difficulty?
- What patterns have you used in your tests?
Have you taken a top down or bottom up approach?
- What are the pros/cons of your chosen strategy?

Break

Pick a piece of functionalty that was challenging for you, but you overcame.
- Explain, in detail, how this functionalty works in your project.
- What strategies did you use in succeeding with this functionality?

What is (at least) one thing you’ve recognized you’ve done well?
What is (at least) one thing you saw from your partner that you’d like to implement?