Senior Projects Fall 2009 Meeting 2 August 26, 2009.
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Transcript of Senior Projects Fall 2009 Meeting 2 August 26, 2009.
Senior Projects
Fall 2009
Meeting 2
August 26, 2009
What You’ve Done
or should have:• Checked login to Hawk• Checked remote access to Hawk, if you plan to
work remotely• Checked login to Sun cluster• Checked remote access to Sun cluster, if you
plan to work remotely• Checked Wildcard access to MSC 156, 158, the
outside door under the arch, and the path to the first floor center wing.
More Doings
• Came close to creating a team• Developed the germ of a project idea and
proposal• Started to list necessary project resources
– Software systems and tools
– Project management and presentation tools
– Hardware and peripherals
• Contacted me if you need more team members or if you’re a free agent
Still More Doings
• Checked the course web site, and especially
• Checked the list of project ideas
What You’ve Said
Capstone
A capstone is:
• A final thing
• Top part of a set of rocks
The dictionary says:
• The uppermost stone of a structure
• Any of a series of flat slabs placed on top of a wall to protect its joints
Capstone (2)
US 30
• Lancaster
• Past Lancaster
• Far West, perhaps California
• Maybe Canada
• But really, Astoria, Oregon at the intersection with US 101.
US 30 (really west)
The Real US 30
• Starts in Atlantic City in the east• Goes through
– New Jersey– Pennsylvania– Ohio – Indiana– Illinois– Iowa– Nebraska– Wyoming– Idaho– Oregon
Coding Letters
• ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
• UTF 7, UTF 8, UTF 16, UTF 32oUTF = Unicode Transformation Format
• Binary (a number system)
• Hex (a number system)
• Morse Code (dots and dashes)
• Huffman Codes
Coding Letters
Also,
• EBCDIC (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code)
• Hollerith Code
• IBM Selectric Code
Course Goals
• Become familiar with computing as a profession and learn something about potential career paths
• Learn a new language or software system (suite)
• Complete an interesting software development project creating – A good, even significant, piece of software– A seamless, finished, effective project
Course Goals (2)
• Explore a challenging research topic or relevant system
• Develop and reinforce teamwork skills• Profit from the project results• Receive an A in the course
Course Goals (2)
• How should we measure success at achieving these goals?
• What are examples of successful senior projects?
Intellectual Property
Yours
• Copyright
• Patent
• Policy– Annotations
Others
• Open source
• GNU license
• Creative Commons
• Fair use
• Plagiarism
University
• UNIT
• Classroom
Destroying Jargon
• 3-letter acronyms
• 4-letter acronyms– Necessary because the 3-letter ones are all
used?
• Overloaded words and phrases
Summary of Deliverables
• Weekly individual log– Due each Monday, starting 31 August
• Continually updated project website• Initial project presentation• Four sprint reviews• Final report (format and contents depends on
project)• Poster• Oral presentation
Exercises
• Submit resume by 9 September
• Suggest Spring 10 electives
• Find the names of the members of the IPPB