Overview
In support of BYU’s Aim of “Lifelong Learning”, 10% of each lab grade is dedicated to a “Lifelong Learning: What’s Next?” section found at the end of each lab writeup.
Technology changes quickly, and much of what you will use in your career hasn’t been invented yet. Learning how to teach yourself is worth more than any single topic we cover in class. To help you practice, each lab ends with a question that builds on what you just finished. These are the kinds of questions good engineers ask themselves at the end of every project.
Requirements
Explore the question in the lab writeup until you could explain the answer to another student. Use whatever resources you like: documentation, articles, experiments on your own board, or AI tools.
These topics are considered course material, and they are valid questions for the exams.
Using AI
The AI Usage Policy normally prohibits sharing your code with AI tools. These sections are an exception. When the lab writeup says so, you may paste your completed solution into an AI tool and discuss it. You wrote the code and you understand it; talking through it with an AI is a good way to discover what you don’t know yet.
Submission
Write a few sentences in your own words describing what you learned. Place the file in your repository at:
lifelong_learning/<lab_name>.txt
Use the following lab names for your files:
lab1.txtlab2.txtlab3.txtlab4.txtlab5.txtlab6.txtlab7.txtlab8.txt
There is one file per lab. For multi-milestone labs, the file is checked when you submit the final milestone. For Lab 4, the file goes in your team repository; each team member should participate in the exploration.