Dossier Advice

2011 - 2012

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• Monica Amaya - ""
• CassandraAu - ""
• Ross Bayer - ""
• Kyla Bouldin - ""
• Allen Chen - ""
• Jared Deiner - ""
• Biniam Gared - ""
• Andrew Heinzman - ""
• Yasmani Herbas-Lozano - ""
• Andy Huynh - ""
• Francois Jaffres - ""
• Brendan Killalea - ""
• Connor Lay - ""
• Jake Lee - ""
• Christopher Lent - ""
• Sean Liu - ""
• David Lugo - ""
• Jacob Lustig - ""
• Zuhaerr Mansiv - ""
• Joren Manuel - ""
• Niti Paudyal - ""
• Ryan Pederson - ""
• RandallPerez - ""
• Ethan Pilot - ""
• Edward Powell - ""
• Sumit Sarwar - ""
• James Wanda - ""
• Hudson Worden - ""

2010 - 2011

• Daniel Browning - "Focus on the sections and keep them consistent"
• Paulo Dorado - "Do it seriously, and don't half-arse it"
• Solomon Hailu - "Keep your dossier simple"
• John [JP] H. - "Work on sections day-by-day"
• Scarlet Jaldin - "Quality over quantity. Straight and to the point. Follow everything listed in the rubrics."
• Robert Mercado - "Don't lose your USB flash drive"
• Sara Neel - "You can work for 12 hours straight the night before and *still* not be done. (i.e. don't procrastinate)"
• Teddy Peneva - "Save everything you do."
• Brendan Ritter - "The sections are more important than the code or what it does"
• Arati Sharma - "Don't try to change your code at the last minute"
• Kibret Tsige - "The sections outline your project, so get them done first"
• Peter Vernia - "Make your revisions early"
• Shengyuan Wang - "Be sure to choose simple dossier"
• Mr. Bui - "Avoid copying other peoples' work b/c chances are, you *both* will have bad dossiers"

2009 - 2010

• Iver Altamirano - "Don't procrastinate"
• Drake Anderson - "Umm. Choose a topic that interests you"
• Jason Andrade - "Aaahhh. Finish the code within the first month"
• Nick Apseloff - "Work hard on your sections early on in the year because you won't want to do them later"
• Josh Braden - "Focus on good initial design so you don't have to redo everything"
• Suchana Costa - "Use all the class time you can!"
• Oliver De La Via - "Do not make these mistakes:"
  • "Do little coding due to having other hw for 3 months (sacrifice that sleep every so often early in the year rather than at the last minute)"
  • "Not making a copy of each file (the file can be lost or inaccessible, in my case"
  • "Not believe Mr. Bui when he says that a student spent 3 days straight coding even though he was a good coder (I spent more than 5 days and still am not done)"
  • "Think you can finish this in the last week alone (you will have other hw and IAs to turn in)"
• Ian Feeney - "Don't slack on the Mastery Aspects. Do them correctly."
• Matt Hines - "Do it right the first time (earlier in the year)"
• Sean Hoffman - "Stick with one program idea, and don't constantly keep changing it"
• Paul Johnson - "Manage your time"
• Alex Lindeman - "Don't try to pay somebody to do your dossier for you"
• Reuben Luoma-Overstreet - "Look at the mastery aspects before you code"
• Abdullah Mamun - "Look at previous sections when you work on any of them."
• Arnold Montecinos - "Don't limit yourself to only what you learned in class."
• Matt Newman - "SL is for n00bz"
• Trevor Newton - "Don't completely BS sections if you want any sleep later"
• Matt Pearson-Beck - "Don't make your idea too complicated because you won't know how to code it as well as you think you will be able to"
• Aasim Rawoot - "Do a binary tree because you will be rewarded later"
• Manik Sarik - "Sit next to a helpful student"
• Zol Tsogoo - "Do your work on time! Don't get a job where you'll have to do your stuff at night"
• Ben Whelan - "It's impossible to complete at the last minute."
• Mr. Bui - "If you wait until the last minute, you will not complete it well, and by well, I mean it will be teh suck"