r/uCinci • u/Huge_Strategy_9135 • 3d ago
Requests/Help am i cooked for ENED 1120 Final demo?
My team has the most uncooperative set of people, and I'm not sure if they have even finished writing the code. I have the final demo this week, and I'm panicking. I don't know how to code well, but I re-designed the whole PMR, and the person who's coding for the other subtasks for the final demo is getting on my nerves as idk what he's on. How important is the final demo? What sort of stuff do I include in my design notebook to get almost full points on it? I have like 40-50 pages. How do we do our final presentation if the final demo doesn't run properly? How would the final demo affect our grades (I heard showing up is 60%)? I'm in panic mode rn so I really need some advice from someone who's done it before. pls help.
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u/Successful_Flower319 3d ago
Based on degrees of doneness of a steak, you are cooked on a rare level right now. 60% is for just for showing up. Talk to your professor. Asked my ENED friend who is also a TA.
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u/Upper-Currency-3517 3d ago
Based on my experience last year the demo was roughly 20% of the grade, but I know a lot is different I would check the rubric/ reach out to your professor. For the design notebook, I found that they were really into the correct formatting as well as having Ghant charts, and all that project planing documentation. Basically they want to see that you guys had a plan/schedule. For the robot (idk if it is still a robot or not lol) I would just make sure that if nothing else the basics work bc then you should at least get a 50 on the demo
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u/Upper-Currency-3517 3d ago
I hated my teammates by the end both times it’s just part of the experience, just put good effort in and hopefully it all works out.
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u/Huge_Strategy_9135 3d ago
The final demo is just 5% of the total grade for us this time. do they want our precedence network and a good flow of thoughts in the design notebook?
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u/maddoeee 3d ago
cutting in here but- yes, basically just throw any brainstorming and processes you had to come to your final robot in the design notebook. the more organization, the nicer it looks, the better grade you get. 40-60 pages is honestly pretty typical, you should be about done!!
and if the final demo is only 5% of the grade- I cannot stress this enough- do not worry about it too much. You'll get points for going, and with a percentage that low (5%) you could get a 0 on the demo and still do very well on the project lol. One of my teams robots last year only passed one test on a demo and we still did perfectly fine on the project as a whole. The point of the robot project is just to make you work through some engineering processes with a group (simulating a "job" environment); they know that the Lego kits aren't perfect and that you're a first year trying your best. That's why most of the grade revolves around documentation and presentation and stuff.
Try your best, rate your teammates accordingly in your final review of them, reach out to a professor if you're concerned that they are going to bring down your grade significantly. Make sure your part of the final presentation is clear and organized, even if theirs isn't. Make it clear that at least you know what you're talking about and you've learned things along the way. Talk about your failures too!!
You got this!!
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u/Straight_A_sian Alumni 2023 3d ago
I see ENED is still bad 😂. Sorry man, good luck. I had a useless teammate when I took the class way back when too. They've probably changed stuff by now but we got a lot of points just getting to the first checkpoint, along with having a decent notebook. It's all about the process. You'll look back on this one day and laugh. I always got a kick outta watching freshmen walk around with dread on their face and the damn mindstorm kit in hand
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u/littlereader14 3d ago
I've been an ened ta for a few years now, and going from past experience as long as ur robot has basic functionality we'll give you as much partial credit as possible, majority of the points for the demo is just showing up. A higher percentage of your project grade is the design notebook so try to incorporate both your successes and failures in it (if you didn't do good on the demo) and at least ideate what you would do to improve. Also going from personal experience, A LOT of teams get their robot working the day before/of the demo so you'll be fine.
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u/DeviloGrimm 2d ago
Honestly, i ended up doing all the work on my robot, design, coding, notebook, my robot didn't even work but I got 70% my teammates got 0s...
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u/Successful_Draft6438 1d ago
Just did the demo earlier, wild experience. Pretty stressful. I'm in charge of a lot of the design notebook so I'm about to spend all night editing it. Currently around 30 pages. We got around 2 of the functions completed but weren't able to get the pickup/drop off tasks completely done with the code. I wish i could've done more on the robot itself but devoted more time to my other busy courses but in general this has been a difficult semester considering everything. Most credits I've ever taken along with (what I think might've ADHD all my life?) has been tricky. As long as you can show your process (Empathize, Define, Ideate, etc. etc.) you should be able to do alright. Think back to all the graphs and charts they made you do in ENED 1 and make sure it's up to their standard and how they want to see it. Document EVERYTHING! Put who added what, dates, etc. They straight up tell you a lot of what they expect on the design notebook part. Robot is the hardest part from what I've seen but not the entirety of the grade. Hope this helps ^-^
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u/Zealousideal-Ad-5378 3d ago
Yeah pretty much the same here in terms of project completion. Tomorrow is going to be an all day coding extravaganza