Jargon Busting

Overview

Teaching: 5 min
Exercises: 0 min

Questions

• What terms, phrases, or ideas around code or software development have you come across and perhaps feel you should know better?

Objectives

• Explain terms, phrases, and concepts associated with terms, phrases, or ideas around code or software development in libraries

• Compare knowledge of these terms, phrases, and concepts

• differentiate between these terms, phrases, and concepts

Jargon Busting

Task

This group task is an opportunity for you to get help understanding terms, phrases, or ideas around code or software development in libraries that you might have come across and perhaps feel you should know better. This is a safe place to ask these kinds of questions, and to get a firmer grasp on the concepts we might be discussing later.

• Start by getting into pairs.
• Talk for 3 minutes (your instructor will be timing you!) on any terms, phrases, or ideas around code or software development in libraries that you’ve come across and perhaps feel you should know better.
• Get into groups of 4-6.
• Make a list of all the problematic terms, phrases, and ideas each pair came up. Retain duplicates. Then - taking common words as a starting point - spend 10 minutes working together to try to explain what the terms, phrases, or ideas means (note: use both each other and the internet as a resource!). Make a note of those your group resolves and those you are still struggling with.
• Each group then reports back on one issue resolved by their group and one issue not resolved by their group.
• The instructor will collate these on a whiteboard and facilitate a discussion about what we will cover today and where you can go for help on those things we won’t cover.

Key Points

• It helps to share what you know and don’t know about software development and data science jargon