% CST8207 Week 15 Notes -- Course Evaluation, Final Exam Results, Final Grades, Linux Rap % Ian! D. Allen -- -- [www.idallen.com] % Winter 2019 - January to April 2019 - Updated 2023-01-25 21:13 EST - [Course Home Page] - [Course Outline] - [All Weeks] - [Plain Text] Course Linux Server permanent shutdown June 2019 ================================================ The [Course Linux Server] was archived and shut down permanently because the CLS system administrator (Ian!) had to resign from the College and nobody else was able to maintain the server. For options on continuing to use Linux, see below. Course Evaluation Results for CST8207 19W ========================================= The results of the **CST8207 19W Course Survey Report** are published under [**CST8207 19W Course Evaluation**]. Thank You to all my students: [**Certificate of Recognition for Exceptional Teaching** (PDF)] Final Exam Analysis =================== Below are the 76 raw, unadjusted marks from the [Final Exam]: 98.9 98.3 97.2 97.2 96.1 95.2 94.4 94.4 93.9 93.3 91.7 91.7 91.1 90.5 88.9 88.9 88.9 88.3 87.8 87.8 86.7 86.7 85 83.3 82.8 82.8 82.2 81.7 81.7 81.1 81.1 81.1 81.1 80.3 80.3 80 79.8 78.9 78.3 75 75 75 74.8 74.4 73.1 72.8 72.8 72.2 71.7 71.7 70.6 70.6 70.6 68.9 68.9 67.1 66.7 63.9 63.3 62.8 61.1 59.8 59.4 57.8 53.9 52.2 43.9 38.3 37.8 35 34 33.3 28.3 22.8 21 20.5 76: Pass 66 (86.8%) Fail 10 (13.2%) 37 A (48.7%) 14 A- 9 A 14 A+ 16 B (21.1%) 6 B- 8 B 2 B+ 9 C (11.8%) 2 C- 3 C 4 C+ 4 D ( 5.3%) 1 D- 1 D 2 D+ 10 F (13.2%) 9 F- 1 F 0 F+ 90% - 100% 14 ************** 80% - 90% 23 *********************** 70% - 80% 16 **************** 60% - 70% 9 ********* 50% - 60% 4 **** 40% - 50% 1 * 30% - 40% 5 ***** 20% - 30% 4 **** 10% - 20% 0 0% - 10% 0 Number of students who got the last question wrong, even though the answer was given in the test instructions: **5** Here is a PDF of the [Final Exam] from April 2019. *The slash-separated leading numbers in square brackets in front of each question are the number of students who answered the question correctly followed by the number of students who answered the question. The questions in this PDF are sorted in ascending order based on the first number, so the most difficult questions appear first.* Only the Registrar issues your final course grade. All grades for all students in CST are reviewed by the department the week after exams and your final grades are sent to the Registrar after that review. **Only the Registrar issues your final course grade.** Final Grade Results =================== Below are the 83 raw, unadjusted marks for the overall course: 98.9 98.1 97.7 97.2 96.2 96 95.2 94.9 94.6 94.6 94.3 93.3 92.5 91.4 91.2 91 90.2 89.8 89.6 88.9 88.8 88.3 87.6 87.6 87.5 87.3 86.3 85.7 85.3 85.1 84.4 84.2 83 81.3 80.8 80.3 80.3 78.8 78.7 78.3 78.1 77.3 77 76.7 76.7 75.9 74.8 74.6 72.7 72.5 72.1 71.7 71.5 71.2 71 70.7 70.4 70.1 70.1 69.7 67.4 65.5 63.8 63.5 57.6 54.9 48.7 47 44.4 44.1 43.4 41.1 39 33 32.1 29.7 28.2 22 15.4 12.8 9.7 7.8 0 83: Pass 66 (79.5%) Fail 17 (20.5%) 37 A (44.6%) 7 A- 11 A 19 A+ 23 B (27.7%) 10 B- 5 B 8 B+ 4 C ( 4.8%) 0 C- 3 C 1 C+ 2 D ( 2.4%) 0 D- 1 D 1 D+ 17 F (20.5%) 12 F- 3 F 2 F+ 90% - 100% 19 ******************* 80% - 90% 18 ****************** 70% - 80% 23 *********************** 60% - 70% 4 **** 50% - 60% 2 ** 40% - 50% 6 ****** 30% - 40% 4 **** 20% - 30% 2 ** 10% - 20% 3 *** 0% - 10% 2 ** Only the Registrar issues your final course grade. All grades for all students in CST are reviewed by the department the week after exams and your final grades are sent to the Registrar after that review. **Only the Registrar issues your final course grade.** Notes from the Classroom ======================== Commands Used ------------- Keep a notebook with a [List of Commands] in it. All commands have now been covered in the course. Your own personal web page on the CLS ===================================== Sorry, all the personal student web pages were only available on the [Course Linux Server] that had to be shut down in June 2019. ![/bin/cat] Using and installing Linux yourself =================================== I do not recommend installing Linux as a "dual boot" option. Installing in a Virtual Machine (VM) is a better option, because: 1. You don't risk damaging your host machine by making a mistake setting up dual-boot. A botched dual-boot can easily wipe out everything. 2. You can run multiple different Linux VMs. Try them all! 3. You don't have to shut down your main host to play with Linux. You can have both the host and Linux available at the same time. With dual-boot, you have to close everything and reboot the machine to get into Linux, and that's a pain you don't need. 4. You can take a snapshot of your VM before you do anything, so you can always recover back to the snapshot if something goes wrong. Here are some student options for continuing to use Linux/Unix: 1. You can get a free BSD Unix shell account here: 2. You can wait and install your own Linux virtual machine in CST8177. 3. *These CST8177 instructions below are obsolete, because the `linux2.ca` domain has expired. You may find some old notes in the Internet Archive, e.g. * CST8177 used to install Linux in a VM, but they overwrote the old notes when the prof created the new term and the links may be broken: To install Linux in a VM now, you can use an old version of CST8177 notes here: **LINK BROKEN** - (*These notes are **NOT** the notes for the current version of CST8177, which are unavailable and locked up on Brightspace.*) - The first two old assignments create Live-CD Linux VMs: - **LINK BROKEN** - **LINK BROKEN** - The third old assignment does a Linux install into a VM: - **LINK BROKEN** 4. To install Linux in a VM now, you can use a very old version of CST8207 [CentOS Installation] notes - The above configures a minimal server, not a full system with GUI. - You can follow the same general method to download and install a more modern GUI Desktop version of Linux, e.g. [Ubuntu Linux] or [Mint Linux]. Ottawa/Gatineau Linux Resources ------------------------------- - [Ottawa Canada Linux Users Group - OCLUG] - [Linux Ottawa Wiki] - [Ottawa Linux Mailing List] My Last Linux Rap Video ======================= I did my final **Linux Rap** at the start of class on Tuesday, April 16, 2019. > "Only do, what only you can do." - E.W.Dijkstra(?), John Maxwell(?), John > Harvey Jones(?), others(?)... With this quote and my upcoming necessary resignation from Algonquin College firmly in mind, I solicited four words from the students at the start of my last 8am Linux lecture class, wrote them on the board, put on a rainbow hoodie and orange pants, and performed a short freestyle, completely improvised rap that included all of the words they gave me. [Ian! Linux Rap video by André D'Aoust] Ian! Linux Rap on YouTube: Creative Commons License: [Link to all Ian Linux Rap Videos] Thank You ========= ![[Certificate of Recognition][**Certificate of Recognition for Exceptional Teaching** (PDF)]][1] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- C O U R S E    E V A L U A T I O N ================================== ____ _ ____ __ __ | _ \ | | ___ __ _ ___ ___ | _ \ ___ \ \ / /___ _ _ _ __ | |_) || | / _ \ / _` |/ __| / _ \ | | | | / _ \ \ V // _ \ | | | || '__| | __/ | || __/| (_| |\__ \| __/ | |_| || (_) | | || (_) || |_| || | |_| |_| \___| \__,_||___/ \___| |____/ \___/ |_| \___/ \__,_||_| ____ ____ _____ _____ _ _ _ / ___/ ___|_ _| | ____|_ ____ _| |_ _ __ _| |_(_) ___ _ __ | | \___ \ | | | _| \ \ / / _` | | | | |/ _` | __| |/ _ \| '_ \ | |___ ___) || | | |___ \ V / (_| | | |_| | (_| | |_| | (_) | | | | \____|____/ |_| |_____| \_/ \__,_|_|\__,_|\__,_|\__|_|\___/|_| |_| -    **Closes Sunday April 28.** - Feedback is anonymous. Professors are not told who said what and results are not released until after grades have been submitted. - I publish my [anonymous course evaluations], so your comments will be there to guide future students. - Listen to Dogbert on [satisfaction surveys] - The Checking Program for your assignments tells you how to turn off the nag message. Read All The Words. Final Exam Results ================== You can get your raw, unadjusted [Final Exam] results early: > If you want me to reveal your raw, unadjusted [Final Exam] mark to you > before your grade is released by the Registrar, first fill out your CST8207 > Section 010 (lecture) Course Evaluation. (See above!) After you have done > your CST8207 Course Evaluation, from your Algonquin email account, send me > an email with "Subject: course evaluation done". I will then send you your > raw, unadjusted [Final Exam] mark. I only release the raw, unadjusted [Final Exam] mark, not your final grade. Marks and grades may be adjusted before being sent to the Registrar. Only the Registrar issues your final course grade. All grades for all students in CST are reviewed by the department the week after exams and your final grades are sent to the Registrar after that review. **Only the Registrar issues your final course grade.** -- | Ian! D. Allen, BA, MMath - idallen@idallen.ca - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Home Page: http://idallen.com/ Contact Improv: http://contactimprov.ca/ | College professor (Free/Libre GNU+Linux) at: http://teaching.idallen.com/ | Defend digital freedom: http://eff.org/ and have fun: http://fools.ca/ [Plain Text] - plain text version of this page in [Pandoc Markdown] format [www.idallen.com]: http://www.idallen.com/ [Course Home Page]: .. [Course Outline]: course_outline.pdf [All Weeks]: indexcgi.cgi [Plain Text]: week15notes.txt [Course Linux Server]: 070_course_linux_server.html [**CST8207 19W Course Evaluation**]: ../course_evaluation.html [**Certificate of Recognition for Exceptional Teaching** (PDF)]: ian_certificate_of_recognition.pdf [Final Exam]: finalexam_19w.pdf [List of Commands]: 900_unix_command_list.html [/bin/cat]: bincat.jpg "/bin/cat" [CentOS Installation]: ../../15w/notes/000_centos_install.html [Ubuntu Linux]: https://www.ubuntu.com/ [Mint Linux]: https://linuxmint.com/ [Ottawa Canada Linux Users Group - OCLUG]: http://linux-ottawa.org/ [Linux Ottawa Wiki]: http://wiki.linux-ottawa.org/doku.php [Ottawa Linux Mailing List]: http://lists.linux-ottawa.org/linux/listinfo.html [Ian! Linux Rap video by André D'Aoust]: ianCSTcomputersciencerap2019-04-16.mp4 [Link to all Ian Linux Rap Videos]: 000_rap.html [1]: ian_certificate_of_recognition.png "Certificate of Recognition" [anonymous course evaluations]: /#coursenotes [satisfaction surveys]: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2005-04-07/ [Pandoc Markdown]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/