This is one of the three things you’re graded on — alongside your engagement in the room and the portfolio at the end of the month.
Tuesday you get a blank piece of paper. No questions on it. No word bank, no multiple choice, nothing to jog your memory.
Write down everything you know about this material.
That’s the entire quiz.
What “everything you know” means
Anything from Assignment 01 is fair game — both columns of it. Order doesn’t matter. Neither does neatness, spelling, or whether it’s prose. Things that count:
- The vocabulary, in your own words, not the definitions you memorised
- The Git loop, end to end, in the right order
- Why each step exists — the right-hand column of the list is where most of the marks are
- What happens if you skip a step, or do them out of order
- Where a secret key goes and where it doesn’t
- Diagrams, arrows, boxes. Draw the loop if drawing it is how you know it
- What broke for you, and what fixed it. Your own scars count as knowledge
Nothing is subtracted for something being wrong — but a page of confidently wrong statements tells me the same thing an empty page does.
How it’s graded
| What the page looks like | What it says about you |
|---|---|
| The loop end to end, the vocabulary in your own words, why each step exists, and the specific things that broke on you | You know this. Nothing else to prove. |
| The foundations are there — Git vs GitHub, commit vs push, what a branch is for — but holes where it gets specific | You’ve got the shape, not the detail. The holes are your homework. |
| Scattered words, or a page that could have been written before the assignment | Nothing’s landed yet. We start over, and that’s fine — but we start over. |
The middle row is where most people land, and it’s a perfectly good place to land. Where the holes are is the useful information — for you and for me.
How to study for something with no questions
You can’t cram recall. You can only rehearse it.
The one thing that works: sit down with a blank page now and do the quiz to yourself. Whatever you can’t produce, that’s your study list — go back to it, then blank the page and go again a day later. Re-reading your notes will feel like it’s working and won’t be.
Running the loop one more time on a real repo beats reading about the loop a fourth time.
I have a blank-paper quiz on Git, GitHub, Codespaces, deploying, and web basics. The format is: blank sheet, write down everything I know.
Don’t teach me anything yet. I’m going to write out everything I know right now, and I want you to grade it: tell me what I got right, what I got wrong, and — most importantly — the things I didn’t mention at all that should have been there. Then give me a study list ordered by what matters most.
Warm up first on the practice page — flashcards, self-checks, and a Git loop you can break without consequences.
done when You can fill a page cold, with no notes and nothing open, and the holes you find are ones you then went and closed.
On the day
- Blank paper, provided.
- Nothing open. No notes, no phone, no AI, no neighbour.
- Write in whatever form gets it out of your head fastest.