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