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Project Details and Milestones

This is a team project and each team will consist of 2 members. Starting this year, the class project team will be formed as follows:

Random-Assignment: Instructor will form team by a random-assignment algorithm and publish this online. [Teams by Random-Assignment -- M0-Random-Assignment.pdf] [Generated by this Scratch program. | Group G1 | | Group G2 | ] Mutual-Swap: Then, during the grace period, teams can do a mutual swaps (defined by Team(a,b) and Team(c,d) to become Team(a,c) and Team(b,d)), subject to agreement by all four students: a, b, c, and d. An email MUST BE sent to the instructor (cc-ed to ALL FOUR students a, b, c, d). [Deadline: Tuesday, 13-Sep, 5pm] Note: Swaps involving more than two teams are NOT allowed. Final Team Assignment is out: here!

Each project team should work on a simple initial project plan that should include such things as meeting schedule, division of labour, project risks and how to overcome them. (I expect each team to meet face-to-face at least 3-4 times to work on the project. In practice, it should be much more.) Some portion of the project-marks will be assigned to the teamwork aspect of this project.

Once your team is formed, you should meet to brainstorm your topic for the project. Preferably, your project should be related to your major of study or something that you are passionate about. Then, write a short "one page proposal" (1-2 pages) on your chosen topic and a rough plan of action on how you will do the project.

This is to be due by the M1-deadline (given above). Submit to IVLE Workbin (UIT2201-M1 folder).

There will be a mid-project review for each project group done with the instructor. This will be scheduled on the week of the M2-deadline.

The tentative schedule for Fall-2016 M2-Review: -- || here (txt) ||

(Please also come prepared to demo your project and with any questions you may have about your project.)

What to do during the M2-Review session: (20 minutes)

1. Give Name/Title of project,
2. Give main goals of project
3. Tell main components of project and
     status of each component (NS, IP, D)
       NS=not-started; IP=In-Progress; D=Done
4. Do a quick demo of project (whatever you have done)
5. Ask Questions you have about the project
6. Discussion   

Final Project Deliverables: Your final project are as follows:

• Your "Application"
  Depending on your project, your "application" will be the cool application/storyboards/maps/web-pages that you created.
  If you "application" requires substantial user interaction, please write a short "User Manual" for it.
  

• Your Project Report Your project report (10-15 pages) should contain the following key sections:
  • Introduction,
  • Short description of the chosen software framework,
  • Overview and Key idea of your Cool Application,
  • Achievements of your project,
  • Areas for further improvements,
  • Project process, division of labour, and team-work,
  • Lessons learned,
  • References.
  • Appendix A.
  (You are free to change the actual names of the sections.)
  Note: In order to help future project-teams, Appendix A will be a short writeup on "How to Get Started with Programming using Scratch or Your-Software-Framework.

• Your Project CD For (your and my) convenience, you should organize *all* your project materials into a ProjectCD. The ProjectCD should contain the following: a simple README.txt file that describes the contents of the ProjectCD, your cool application, document on how to use it (if any), intermediate project design documents (if any), project presentation files (if any), articles that your refer to, your M1-report, your final project report, and any other relevant info about your project.

Submssion of Project Deliverables:

Your ProjectCD should be properly labelled with the following info: "UIT2201 Fall 2016 Project", Your-Application-Name, names of the team members, contact info (if appropriate).
Please submit your ProjectCD to me within the same deadline.

(I highly recommend that you also make a ProjectCD for yourself, for keepsake.)

Please submit your final project report to both

• the IVLE Workbin (UIT2201-M3 folder) by the deadline given above, and
• hardcopy to me or my office by the deadline.

The project presentation will be done in a "Project Showcase" during Study-Week. The purpose is to present the fruits of your labour to your peers and to the course instructor. Through the varied application / games / tools that you develop in your project, the whole class gets to witness what ITEM that you have developed in this class, and what it (Scratch or other programming platforms) can do with the skill-set you acquired in this class.

You will also participate in Peer Grading of the projects of your peers. Join in the fun and learn about their projects as well.

Details:

• Project Presentation/Showcase -- Mon, 14-Nov-2016, Venue: TBA

• Your project report should be your own work. It can make use of facts, figures and ideas that can be obtained from the web-sites, books, or related sources. And you should acknowledge these sources by citing them in your reports. You should NOT copy pages (wholesale) from these sources. Doing so will be considered plagiarism and incurs severe punishment.
  For more on plagarism, please consult the NUS plagiarism website.
• It is also important that in your report, you should include some of your own views and comments and not just regurgitate the reports/comments of others.
• Be sure to accurately list the sources of your material in the "References" section of your report.