Presented within will be various questions evaluating your knowledge and experience gained this semester. In places where you are able, the more you write and explain topics the better the chance you will have of receiving full credit (and alternatively, the more credit you will receive should something be incorrect). Note that I'm not just looking for answers; I'm looking for responses and solutions. Show me that you understand the problem and any particular outcome.

The questions on this experience are open resource with the exception of other individuals. In that respect, it is CLOSED PERSON. This means you are not to communicate with other people (either in the class or otherwise), in real life or electronically. Use your own knowledge, use your skills, and use your ability to access the allowed resources to aid you in coming up with your well thought out answers to each question.

You are allowed, and expected, to ask me questions, so that a problem can be better clarified.

You are to do all questions. Submission is to be in an organized and easy to read format in a plain text file, such as in an e-mail with attachments on Lab46, sent to (wedge@lab46.corning-cc.edu or haas@corning-cc.edu) and yourself.

You have until 11:59:59pm (that's 23:59:59 in 24-hour time) Friday, December 17th, 2010 to complete and submit this to me.

If desired, attending during the Systems Programming scheduled finals week meeting time would be welcome. That time is: Friday, December 17th, 2010 from 11:15am-2:15pm in B003.

Good luck!

Create a portfolio in your wiki space, which will basically contain links to documentation on the various projects you've undertaken this semester.

Provide me with the URL.

If you created something which could be useful as a tutorial or HOWTO, please post it to the Lab46 documentation page.

If you have undertaken a project that does not immediately translate to a tutorial or HOWTO, isolate some aspect that would be an informative piece of knowledge and post it in a unique document on the Lab46 documentation page.

Provide me with the URL.

Problems inevitably persist during the exploration of some project or task.

Identify some problems you encountered on various projects, and explain what approaches you took in debugging/diagnosing, and ultimately resolving the problem.

Select a document (that you did not author) under the Lab46 Documentation pages (http://www/documentation/start), read through it, and fix any noticed typos, incompleteness, or enhance the document in some way (preserving the original spirit of the document as best as possible).

What document did you select?

Give me a general description of the changes you made to it.

Of the HPC Experiences tasks, or projects you yourself would like to undertake but have not yet had the opportunity to embark upon, prepare a wiki page that will contain some necessary “getting started”, “useful links”, and/or “background information” that would assist someone in the future.

Update the HPC Experience tasks page with a description and link to the document you are creating, and let me know the URL.

Of all the work you've done this semester in this course, identify something that was meaningful to you.

• What is it?
• Why does it stick out in your mind? Explain

Answer me the following:

• How did you feel about the course?
• Was it useful/interesting to you?
• What was your least favorite aspect, and why?
• Any comments, suggestions?

After an exciting and intellectually challenging run, we're arriving at the end of this semester's journey. Some will be moving on, others sticking around for more. I make it a practice to listen to your thoughts and suggestions. The course, as we all experienced it, unfolds in a manner pertaining, in part, to how you respond to concepts and topics (do we need more time, can I crank it up a couple notches, etc.) so each semester and each class is entirely different from any other- because of each of you, and all of us, working together and learning together.

So, searching deep down within your soul- balancing reason with emotion, and considering attendance and timeliness; what grade do you feel you deserve for this course, and why? Justify your answer based on your own perceived performance to course ideals and content, not on need or desire.