Kernel Development Learning Pipeline

Final Presentation Guidelines 🎯 🏹

This is your last opportunity to demonstrate your skills and reflect on what you've learned in the course.

Outcomes:

• Practice your soft skills

• Give an engaging technical presentation

• Reflect and connect your work to the bigger picture

Presentation requirements:

• 25 ± 5 minutes long

• Must include all sections below

• The length guidelines specified below are rough guidelines and they do not need to be strictly followed

What and how to submit:

• You will submit your presentation by posting a link to your recording in Matrix

  • Suggestion: use OBS to record your presentation as a livestream to youtube and set the video visibility to "unlisted" so only those with the link can access

  • You may use any video hosting platform of your choice, but make sure anyone with the link can acces your video before you submit

  • There is no peer review and additional final submission for this assignment

  • Submit the link to your video in the #final channel on Matrix by midnight 23 September 2024

What to present:

• Demonstration your work on F1 (10-15 mins)

  • You must present your initial submission unmodified

  • You must build, load, test, and unload the module

  • You must show the key features of the module

  • You must discuss your design choices and how you approached the spec and tests you were given

  • You must present this section from your live terminal/editor

  • You must explain and if possible demonstrate the thread and memory safety of your code

• Future work and feature extension ideas (5-10 mins)

  • Think of some interesting ways to extend your code with new features

  • Describe your design of these features and how they would be used

  • If you desire, include diagrams or other visual aids to assist this section

  • You may implement these features if you would like, but it is not a requirement

• Course reflection and feedback (about 5 mins)

  • These are suggestions and don't feel the need to hit every single point

  • In your own words, what did you learn in this class?

    • Try and pick 2-3 important topics

    • How did your work on specific assignments build your understanding?

  • How does your work fit into the big picture of...?

    • Your academic career

    • Your software engineering skill development

    • Your understanding of open source sofware

  • What assignments did you particularly enjoy or not enjoy?

    • Explain why your felt that way

    • For those you enjoyed, how could you go further?

    • For those you did not enjoy, how could we improve?

  • Pick an assignment you struggled with:

    • How did you overcome your obstacles?

    • How will your approach differ if you did it again?

  • Pick and assignment you excelled at:

    • What made your work exceptional?

    • Do you have any advice for future students?

  • You must present this section with slides

• Total presentation length must be between 20 and 30 minutes