Editing Software Engineering (Fall 2025) (section)

==== Reflection on Software Engineering and the Bot Project ====

See the [[User:Kaylea/Assessment | brief reflection rubric]] for details on my expectations in terms of the content of the reflection. A successful essay will do the following things:

# Use content and concepts from the course.
# Use evidence from your experience and the bot project. Mention commit IDs, line numbers, dates & times as appropriate.
# Cite your sources; these sources must be real, they must provide support for the statements associated with the citation, and they must be viewable by me. Note that AI tools are notorious for fabricating these and use of AI tools for this assignment is forbidden.
# Be 800-1200 words. Under 800 is unlikely to achieve the depth I am seeking here, and over 1200 words is unfair to others.
# Do not use AI tools.

If you are not sure what to write, think about what happened in the project and choose some of these prompts as jumping off points (do '''not''' treat the following as questions to answer in order!). What kind of work did you end up doing, and how well did you do? Was the project easy or hard, which parts, how, and why? How did the analysis go, and what did you learn? Walk through each topic we covered. How did course concepts apply (or fail to apply) to the situations you faced in developing your bot? Did anything surprise you or change your mind during the project? Did you experience any failures or problems? How did you solve them? Based on your experience, what is your advice for the students who take this course next? What did you learn about yourself and the ways you prefer to work? 

Do not write in a long single paragraph or send me a list of bullets; instead, write a standard essay with an introduction, key points, and conclusion. Choose and use a formatting standard and stick to it (APA, Chicago, ACM, etc.). Do not use AI tools. Do use examples and evidence. This should be an essay that only you could write, because it's about specific events in your experience of the course.

;Turn in: a well-formatted essay via Canvas