To: Dr. Erika Paterson
From: Yang Liu
Date: Oct 29, 2021
Subject: Formal Report Progress
The following is an update on my progress on the formal report assignment for English 301. The topic of this report is Determining the Feasibility of Providing New Workshops to Improve Coding Ability
Audience:
The intended audience for this proposal is Leonard Wang, the president of CSSS, the club for UBC computer science students.
Purpose:
The purpose of this report is to conduct a comparative analysis of providing a workshop for the computer science students to improve their coding ability and to solve the mismatch between the academic goals in the UBC computer science program and actual industrial needs.
Significance:
As a top-ranking university globally, UBC helps students acquire computational thinking and problem-solving skills by delivering professional computer science courses. However, the academic targets do not meet the industrial requirements in many ways. Recommendations to provide a workshop to improve students’ coding ability helps students seek a job and stay well in the workplace.
Research Plan:
- Designing a survey for previous CS students
- Investigate the industrial need and their expectation from graduate students
- Investigate appropriate approaches to improve coding ability
- Designing a survey for current CS students
- Qualify current students’ coding ability
- Determine if students’ coding ability is enough to meet industrial requirements
- Investigate students’ expectations from the workshop
- Analyze the feasibility of providing the new workshop
- Identify the pros and cons of this workshop
Schedule:
- Oct 30 – Nov 7: Collecting Data using survey
- Nov 7 – Nov 14: Drafting formal report
- Nov 15: Formal report draft submission
- Nov 16 — Nov 19: Peer review
- Nov 19 — Nov 25: Revising formal report draft
- Nov 26: Formal report submission
Enclosed: Survey_current_ubc_students, Survey_previous_ubc_students
Hello Yang,
Thank you for submitting this progress report. Yang will you please post the survey online, use the link provided in the lesson to set-up an online survey. Be sure to include the introduction as well, thank you. When you created the survey online, place a link here with your Progress REport. Thank you.