{"id":37931,"date":"2016-10-06T08:30:19","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T13:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc101fall2016\/?p=37931"},"modified":"2016-10-10T09:23:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T14:23:25","slug":"week-09-midway-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc101fall2016\/instructor\/week-09-midway-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 09 &#8211; Midway Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Half Done<\/h2>\n<p>So we are half way through the semester and doing well. The rest of the semester continues focused on what each of you needs to work on as individuals and small groups. I will include the daily challenges (each class day) here below but first a few points:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Remember, this is student-centered learning, you need to drive the learning and ensure that I (and classmates) are helping you get what you need <em><strong>and<\/strong><\/em> pushing you to keep learning.<\/li>\n<li>Keep an eye on this page but even more important, be sure that you are watching our Slack Channel. You could install the app for <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.Slack&amp;hl=en\">Android<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/app\/slack-app\/id618783545?ls=1&amp;mt=8\">iOS<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/store\/apps\/slack-beta\/9nblggh1jj9h\">Windows Phone<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/slack.com\/downloads\/windows\">Windows Desktop<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/slack\/id803453959?mt=12\">Mac<\/a> or just <a href=\"https:\/\/itesm.slack.com\/messages\/tc101gda\/\">check the course slack page<\/a> once a day or so.<\/li>\n<li>I will keep posting to Twitter since it brings in outside perspective to our work and helps expose you to your growing Personal Learning Network. I invite you to do the same.<\/li>\n<li>I will release the Rubric for partial#2 later this week<\/li>\n<li>There will be more readings assigned that I suggest (based on request). As always not required but I will assign only readings (and\/or videos) that I feel are appropriate and well written for you.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/juanquirinoc\/status\/783104477645578241\">Monday Challenge<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Your task today <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TC101?src=hash\">#TC101<\/a> should you choose to accept it. Read text (stdin or file), break into words and count frequencies of them. Share! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JvqLcy6GhX\">pic.twitter.com\/JvqLcy6GhX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ken Bauer (@ken_bauer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ken_bauer\/status\/782931962583326720\">October 3, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Note that at least one student has completed this and tweeted his answer linking to code in GitHub<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hey <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TC101?src=hash\">#TC101<\/a> I finished today challenge, feel free to play around with it <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/48mdFKSQEO\">https:\/\/t.co\/48mdFKSQEO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Quirino_ (@juanquirinoc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/juanquirinoc\/status\/783104477645578241\">October 4, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Thursday Challenge<\/h2>\n<p>A simpler assignment for Thursday<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TC101?src=hash\">#TC101<\/a> Challenge: write a program that checks text for all palindromes. Report how many found (could be stdin or file). <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fcQwlnkRUt\">pic.twitter.com\/fcQwlnkRUt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ken Bauer (@ken_bauer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ken_bauer\/status\/784022264874344448\">October 6, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Feature Image Credit<\/h2>\n<p>flickr photo by David Wulff <a href=\"https:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/dwulff\/12255998\">https:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/dwulff\/12255998<\/a> shared under a Creative Commons (<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/2.0\/\">BY-NC-ND<\/a>) license<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half Done So we are half way through the semester and doing well. The rest of the semester continues focused on what each of you needs to work on as individuals and small groups. I will include the daily challenges (each class day) here below but first a few points: Remember, this is student-centered learning, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc101fall2016\/instructor\/week-09-midway-point\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Week 09 &#8211; Midway Point<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-instructor","category-weeklyvideos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc101fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc101fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc101fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc101fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc101fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37931"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc101fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37958,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc101fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37931\/revisions\/37958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc101fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc101fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc101fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc101fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}