Computer Systems Techlab Project
What will I turn in at the end of the school year?
- Research
Paper in LATEX and PDF format (also optionally HTML format)
Online resource/overview of the Elements of
Technical Documents
- Abstract
- Introduction,
Background
- Theory,
Procedure,
and Workplan
- Discussion,
Results
, Conclusion,
Recommendations
- References,
Appendixes,
Index
- List of
terms, List
of tables, List of Figures,
Table of
contents
- Acknowledgements
- Code
and Analysis: Your Project's program and content:
- Use as a starting point the "Scientific Method" outline that you've written
- "Research oriented" project
- Abstract and description of your research
- Any theory, math, algorithm explanations you can give
- Sample results: screenshots, data runs based on various parameters
- Analysis that you are accumulating
- "Product oriented" project
For marketing to a potential "user group" provide:
- A good description and overview of the purpose and features of your
product
- What users is your product designed for?
- How does your product work for a user?
- What needs does your product fulfill for users?
- Sample tutorial on the use of your product
- Sample screenshots, usage scenarios
- PROVIDE A RESEARCH "ANGLE"/POINT-OF-VIEW
- What is an area of computer science that my product can research?
- What elements of my "product" are related to this area of
research?
- Project Description: Sample
- Student: Your Name
- Firm: Organization's Name (only necessary for mentorship projects)
- Mentor: Mentor's name (only necessary for mentorship projects)
- Title: Title of your project
- Background: A paragraph (or two) that describes the background or
introduces your project. Here you can talk about the goal/purpose
of
the project.
- Description: A paragraph (or two) that describes your project.
Include
an overview of the procedure(s) you're using, your methods,
what kind of results do you expect, and what analyses are you doing (or expect to do)
of these results.
- Descibe what visuals you can include - charts, graphs of results,
diagrams of procedures, screenshots.
Here's a reference on the
graphical representation of data
- Website Portfolio
- Title page format for your site's opening page
- PDF version: "dvipdf"
- Optional: Html version of your technical paper - use "latex2html"
- Tutorial for Future Generations of Students!
Pick an area of computer science or it's application(s)
that you worked on and write a short online tutorial
that could be helpful to other students
- Final Oral Presentation of your Project
- Describing the content and outline for your oral presentation