Mentorship First Quarter, Fall '04
Have the following links on the main title page of your portfolio:
- Project Proposal
Title, Problem, Purpose, Scope, Background,
Procedure/Methodology, Expected Results
- Technical
Paper
- your Final version will be approx. 15-20 pages, double spaced, 250 words per
page,
in LaTex,
HTML ("latex2html"), and PDF ("dvipdf", read pdf files with "gv")
- For 1st Quarter, you'll need to write draft versions of:
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Title Page
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Abstract, 1/3 - 1/2 page, ~75-150 words
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Introduction,
- Purpose, subject of the project, goals of the project, why is the this worth
doing, who will be interested in the results, how can the results be applied?
- Scope of your study and project, the overall bounds of the work that
will be involved
- Background,
- Background and review of current literature/research in this area.
- Demonstrate that you know the background of your topic.
- What kinds of research have been done before in this area?
- How have others gone about trying to solve similar problems you are
dealing with?
- Where is the "state of the art" today?
- In what ways may your approach build on and vary from previous work
that has been done in your project area?
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References
- Appendix
section(s) - commented Code listings
- Code
and Development, Research Elements (include your Scientific Method)
- Screenshots, Output samples, Analysis
- What levels did your programming go into?
Do you have only 1 type of task, or do you
use multiple levels of programming problems/tasks/algorithms.
- What sort of algorithms did you need to develop?
Comment about this in your code.
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Daily Logs/Weekly Goals/Iteration Reports
- Daily Logs/Weekly Goals
- Summary notes/presentation "slides" about your current status andoral
presentation
- Project Poster
- Project Description
, a one page summary of your project - (NOT DUE UNTIL 3rd Quarter)