Due date: December 7, 2000
(see below).
Final Report and Demo
For the final upcoming submission you will need to provide a "User Manual" (roughly 4 to 5 pages) describing:
- Purpose, functionality, program startup procedure.
- Inputs, and interpretation of what the user will see - this section should assume that a typical user is just starting their sophomore year.
- Include a couple of paragraphs on the most important lessons you learned from the project
- Include a few paragraphs summarizing the key technological (programming and design) ideas you included in your design - especially any ideas/techniques that you came up with.
- NOTE: Include the latest and previous UML diagrams as a "Design
Record" supplement to your User Manual (not part of the 5 pages).
For the demo (with both partners present, if you are
partnering), be prepared to follow the guidelines in the original
writeup, and to present an interesting overview/tour of your program
in operation. Consider this a "sales pitch" to a savvy technical
audience - imagine they have lots of money to fund your new startup,
if they like what they see and hear. Your presentation should be
about 5 to 8 minutes approximately.
Instructions for the Demo
Place: B7, Upson Hall.
Remaining Date Note Change: TUESDAY Dec 12th, 6 - 9:30pm
Past Date: December 7th 6:00p to 9:00p.
Note: Due in part to the deadline on getting grades in to the
Registrar, the Demo times have been changed to
TUESDAY Dec 12, 6 - 9:30pm.
Please resignup for a demo time slot on the
schedule which is posted on the consultant's office door, Upson 304.
We urge to to report early for
your demo. The total time you have to spend is not expected to exceed one hour (this
is allowing for overruns and delays beyond our control. Your actual
demo will take
about 15 minutes, after which you are free to leave.)
Details
-
You should be able to compile and run your programs for us without trouble. We may
ask you to make very small modifications at compile time, such as small changes in the
initial configuration or the map size (number of streets).
- Electronic submission: before the beginning of your scheduled
demo slot, please submit (via CUCOON)
your Java source code as well as any auxiliary files (images, sound
clips, etc.) that you need. Be sure to include everything that is
necessary to compile and run your program.
When submitting, please use the `Assignment 2' slot---i.e.,
choose
2 from the drop-down list in the
``For which assignment'' section of the
homework
submission form.
You do not need to submit
electronic versions of the user manual or the uml diagrams.
- Since the demos will be held in Upson B7, it is
clearly crucial that your code compile and run on the
systems that are available in that lab...
Consequently, we strongly recommend that you verify,
well in advance of the demo, that your project does indeed compile
and run as expected in Upson B7. [This is especially important
for those people who have been using J++ (or one of the 1.3.x releases
of the JDK, etc.) to develop their code; please keep in mind that
such software will most likely not be available in the B7 lab.]
- Please take a few minutes to review the latest versions
of both the Project
Description and the
Miscellaneous
notes and clarifications page. It would also be prudent to
scan through the posts in the
project
newsgroup,
if you have not been following that forum assiduously.
- We will be spending no more than 15 minutes per demo. Please use this time effectively
to demonstrate that you have implemented the requirements completely. In general, we will
give you about 5 minutes to show us your project, and the remaining time on questions and
modifications.
- In case you have not been able to complete all the requirements, please show us
whatever components you have completed, so we can give you partial credit. Do not show
us any incomplete components, or code that does not compile/run the way it should.
- For further questions, please post to the project newsgroup.