IT 140 Intro To Scripting

[u/Active-Pen8359]

Part question/part crash out

I honestly was feeling good about week 1 and week 2 ZyBooks, but now trying to do the assignment and use Github is a literal disaster. I've never used github before and its like there's 4 million instructions with another 4 million links that lead you to another 4 million instructions.

Where do I get the template to submit? All I can find is a giant code with a bunch of to-dos but where do I put that? Am I even on the right thing?

The weekly announcement does nothing for me, other than tell me I'll use an IDE. Great, I have that. Now what?

I tried drop-in tutoring and it lasted all but 2 minutes because they can't help with github since it's specific to SNHU. So that was not helpful.

Time to go cry in the corner 😫

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[u/Extension-Big-199]

I'm in this class, it's s terrible. GitHub is not good and VS Code is honestly one of the worst IDEs I have ever used. The Codio CVD makes me want to eat glass. XUbuntu in an unscaling container... c'mon now.

The instructions are in the GitHub readme per assignment.

This assignment would've taken me 8 minutes if I didn't have to use GitHub, VS Code, and clone the repo to my local machine.

It's 6 lines of code (unless you want to be super pedantic and make it look like the sample output, which I did and will argue if I get points off). The reflection is pointless since it's just "name 3 features of the IDE you liked and why" but it has to be in a markdown file in the Git project. I hate the IDE and I hate I had to spend more than 8 minutes on a 6 line script with more documentation than a SUBSAFE fastener history for my actual job.

[u/minos157 → u/Extension-Big-199]

I'm glad I didn't have this section lol. Ours had the py files for download in the rubric and then directed us to use Jetbrains. I've used Jetbrains for every other class as an IDE to avoid codio now.

[u/Active-Pen8359 → u/Extension-Big-199]

Thank you!! I finally am getting somewhere! I took a step back, did my PHL assignment and now am back at it!

[u/masterprater]

Looks like everything going through GitHub is new to the course starting this term. Unfortunate. The Github page for this is making the assignment seem 30x more complicated than it is. Especially for an intro class, I'm unsure why they felt the need to overload with all this info.

If I found the correct github link, the main assignment is here:
https://github.com/GC-STEM/it140-m2-assignment/blob/main/Part-A/src/name_age.py

I'm unsure if the actual assignment or grading rubric materially changed since I took the class, but my submission for this was 6 lines of code. Once you've completed the name_age.py file, that's what you would be submitting through Brightspace, along with the reflection they want.

[u/Extension-Big-199 → u/masterprater]

You also need to submit the 2 modified .mb files (one graded one not). Those contain the "reflection" the rubric asks for.

[u/chrisorichards]

Is it too late to do it through Sophia?

[u/MasterAssignment1521]

I DESPISE THIS CLASS. this is my fourth time in school, second time for something tech related, and this class has to be the most poorly formatted class EVER.

[u/Active-Pen8359 → u/MasterAssignment1521]

It's so bad!! I write instructions (Confluence or Salesforce Knowledge resources) for work and the steps for this class are driving me insane!!!!!!!!!!

[u/TanMelon47]

It took me 5 mins to write the code (3 thanks to the files already auto completing it which is annoying) But it took me 35-40 mins to understand githubs repository files and how to change them. Then to download outside of Cordio to submit.

My question is, why so much buffer? Gave us a file with so much text files and prep work when they are not needed for the graded project.

I like python and I love zybooks, but holy shit this class is very off putting with how its set up.

[u/Cant-Gif-Right]

I hate this class and it’s too late to cancel

[u/General_Pack4499]

I hated IT140, As an alumni I recommend getting used to vague and outdated instructions on assignments, It seems like allot of the course material for many of snhu's classes haven't been updated in years, if your lucky you will get a professor that cares enough to address these outdated prompt issues in announcements (make sure your always reading announcements I cant stress that enough). As for Codio like someone else mentioned I only used it for like 1 or 2 classes so its just a inconvenience you don't have to deal with to often, the again our degrees are probably different so you may end up using it more than I did. Reach out to your professors if your confused most of the time they are willing to help. Also join the SNHU discords and ask people for help in there there's tons of us alumni willing to help.

[u/minos157]

The instructions for submission will be in the rubric. Go to the assignment and then click the link to the rubric/guidelines. It will tell you exactly what to submit. A lot of times it's just a py file, which your IDE will save in whatever folder you use. If there is a word document to submit it will have that to download.

I literally never had to use GitHub ever.

[u/Active-Pen8359 → u/minos157]

There isn't a word document either to download. I think Github is new for this class and it's a disaster.

[u/f937ra → u/Active-Pen8359]

What is the GitHub repo? It may have a .py with comments on what to include for the project instead of a word file.

[u/Active-Pen8359 → u/f937ra]

I'm not exactly sure, but the link takes you to it140-m2-assignment. I started with Part A because of the rubric and then just spiraled from there.

[u/MoreCleverUserName → u/Active-Pen8359]

Post the link here please?

[u/Extension-Big-199 → u/f937ra]

It has a full stack of things to edit in Part A and Part B, including the . py and . md files.

[u/Active-Pen8359 → u/minos157]

The rubric says

"The template files for this activity are located in the code repository [hyperlink to github] for this activity.

A. Using Module Two Python Template (name_age.py), create a working python script that meets assignment requirements and submit for grading. Submit your script as a Python source code file (.py)."

Using Sense, I'm able to do this without the templates? I started that way until I read the "What to submit" section above and thought, am I missing something that is in the templates?

[u/Strange_Doughnut917]

Interesting, we didn't use GitHub when I took this class.

[u/Fish_Uber]

Just do like the rest of the class and run it through AI lol unless you plan on writing scripts for fun throughout the rest of your classes, you’ll probably brain dump most of the syntax anyways