Assign 6: Analyzing Speaker Sam O'Dell '15

Due: Friday (the sooner, the better--I don't want you to forget)

Goals for Assignment 6

• a thoughtful analysis of our guest speaker

Objective: Analyzing Sam's Talk

Samantha O'Dell '15 will be speaking to us about her work at Google and, previously, Salesforce. I want to learn what you got out of her talk. Write a description/analysis that contains the following:

• A brief summary of what the talk was about
• The three most important points she made
• The most interesting point
• The most surprising point
• Did Sam have any Buzzword Bingo-worthy discussion? If so, what was it?
• How did her talk affect how you think about documentation, more generally? Patrick also mentioned that he sometimes documents his code much more than writes code. How does this affect how you see documentation of your code?
• a question you wish you had asked her.
• An overall grade you'd assign to her talk
• What is an appropriate thank-you gift that I should send to Sam?

Finishing up: What to turn in for this assignment

Email me a PDF of your evaluation.

Grading

• Clear, thoughtful evaluation.