M1 Portfolio Requirements

Purpose

Acknowledging Progress: portfolios give students the opportunity to understand their own progress in pursuit of their career as a software developer.
Practicing Narrative: portfolio presentation pushes students to articulate their narrative of their technical and professional journey.
Direct Feedback: portfolio feedback allows students to receive a summative perspective of their performance, including threads of successes and areas of growth.

Structure

Student-directed presentation (5-7 minutes)
Instructor feedback (3-5 minutes)

Requirements

Each student will deliver a 5 minute slide presentation in front of your instructor(s). Students might find it helpful to review their Interview Prep - Project Log to prepare for the following prompts.

All students will respond to the following prompts:
- What is your response to “Tell me about yourself”?
- How has feedback impacted your development in this module and helped prepare you for your job/career?
- Which project produced the most growth in you? Technically or Personally. Why?
- What is something you’ve learned about yourself in receiving project feedback?
In addition to the above, a student who will repeat the current module uses their presentation time to explore why they struggled, discuss the lessons learned, and lay out a plan for what will be different next time.

The presentation should not be a series of slides that directly answers each of these questions with bullet points, but instead should:

Follow a narrative format – this is an opportunity to fine tune your story and how you speak about your work. Slides should flow naturally from one to the next.
Include images and graphics to illustrate the concepts you plan to discuss. These may include screenshots/animated gifs of an application you created, snippets of code from your projects, diagrams of interesting concepts/structures that you used in your project(s).

Submittal

Students are not required to submit any documents but instead should be prepared to give their presentation to their instructors and engage in a follow up conversation. Please practice and ensure your presentation is no more than 5-7 minutes long.

Potential Outcomes

If everything goes to plan: good luck in next mod!
If a student fails to present a portfolio (due to illness, etc): they will need to present it in Week 1 of the next inning
If a student delivers an exceptionally poor portfolio: we’ll determine next steps, possible PIP, etc