diff --git a/2024_lecture_timings_notes.md b/2024_lecture_timings_notes.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..78b6776 --- /dev/null +++ b/2024_lecture_timings_notes.md @@ -0,0 +1,82 @@ + +### Slots + + * 09.30 - 11.00 + * 11.30 - 13.00 + * 14.30 - 15.30 + +### Actual timings + +**PART 1 (01h:40m)** + + * 09.32. Fork/clone the repo + * 09.35. Begin exercise: why do we parallelize? + * 09.41. Begin section: Processes, threads and THE GIL. + * 09.47. Begin exercise: design dakos program. + * 09.54. Begin discussion. + * 10.04. Discussion ends, resume presentation. + * 10.06. Begin exercise: decode the metaphor. + * 10.35. Begin exercise: how can NumPy multithread? + * 10.44. Start kahoot quiz. + * 11.11. End kahoot quiz. + +**(coffee break)** + +**PART 2 (01h:50m)** + + Exercise A + * 11.41. Introduce exercise A. + * 11.51. Begin exercise: first part of A. + * 12.02. Introduce second part of A. + * 12.25. Discuss: second part of A. + + Exercise B + * 12.32. Begin live-coding demo. + * 12.45. Begin Exercise B. + * 13.02. End work exercise B (lunch). + +**(lunch)** + + * 14.31. Discuss results exercise B. + + Exercise C + * 14.48. Begin exercise C. + +**PART 3 (00h:30m)** + + * 15.04. Begin presenting. + * 15.32. End lecture. + +### Notes for next time + + * REMEMBER for the kahoot to emphasize that the choices are + whether you should modify your code to use multiprocessing or + multithreading. The question at the end with numpy tripped up + students. + * Exercise A: + * Some groups wanted to have a more rigorous timing so tried + to do a for loop. + * Took forever to make a PR, even through groups were done with + "basic" tasks. + * Almost everyone added the plot in the commit. + * Suggest rewriting the exercise text to be much more clear and + constrained. + * Exercise B: + * The recursion in the fibonacci function in the live-coding made + some students confused. Consider making an example without + recursion. + * Forgot in the live-coding to explain that you can do pool.map + as a context manager and what happens if you don't. But we were + short on time anyway... + * The exercise skeleton did not include code for the timing, nor + did we tell them they needed to add it. Consider modifying the + exercise text to be a bit more explicit that they need to do + that (faster for time). + * Exercise C: + * Not a lot of time to discuss this. + * Results are weird/not very great for student laptops. Is it even + worth it for them to try to run code on their laptop? + * Discussion was rushed. + * Consider to removing exercise and pure walkthrough, then ask the + students to analyse the results and explain why they do/do not + make sense.