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Robotics Spring 2003 Exam
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Documentation: (30 points)
Create a "YournameModularRobix" directory in your website. 
-Make an INDEX.HTM to connect all aspects of your documentation. 
-Place any relevant photos in the GRAPHICS directory. 
-In the HTML directory, place your documentation about how you solved the problems of the project. 
-Save your RBX code with comments separating the actions in the PROGRAMS directory. 

Course reflection: (20 points)
What was the most interesting part of the course for you

What ideas would you like to see more of in this course?

Name two ways that the physical layout of the room could be changed to improve the class.  Explain why the changes would benefit students in the TechEd program.  Explain how the class could be improved by the change.

What was the most challenging aspect of the class?  How did you overcome this challenge?

How did this course change the way you think?

Modular Robix Followup: (50 Points)
Choose two questions from each of the five sections below.  Answer them in sentences and paragraphs.  Make your responses bold, so they stand out from the questions.

Project
What did you enjoy about the project and why?  
How did you help your classmates?  
Give examples of the was the hardest thing about the project?  
How were you helped by your classmates on this project?  
What have you learned about:
-Robotics systems?  
-Working in a group ?  
-Completing a project on deadline?  

Public Demonstration
What was the best thing about the demonstration?  
In what was did you help/assist the group?
What could you have done to make the demo more effective?
What could we have done as a class to make the demo more effective?
If you were do do this demo again, what would you not do?
What would you definitely do again?

Physical Solution
How did you use the kit to solve the physical problem?
How did you go beyond the kit to use other materials to solve the problem?
How did you use processes to solve the problem?  
How did your layout affect your ability to program the robot?  
How did the size criteria affect your approach to the problem?

Programming
What did you do to make your program more consistent?
How did labelling your code affect the way you worked with the code?
What did you learn from moving your code from the windows machines to the dos machines?

Classroom presence
Discuss the challenge of getting the work done within the class time
What extra effort did you need to provide to solve this problem?  
What was the role of personal attitutde towards solving the problems ?  

Modular design
What was the effect on you of creating one part of a larger solution to a problem?  
How did the other groups affect your design?  
How did your design affect other groups?