COMPUTER SYSTEMS SENIOR RESEARCH
Fall/Spring 2006 - 2007
- Try the new
Zotero research tool
- Syllabus and
Academic Integrity (
.doc)
- Portfolio requirements and Calendar
- Iteration reports,
Logs
(.doc) and record keeping,
timelines,
software testing,
and software estimation
- 2005-2006 Student projects: papers, posters, slides, project descriptions/abstracts, description of the running version of the program, project proposals
- Making a web-docs folder
- 1st Quarter
- 2006-2007 list of student research proposals
- Last year's projects.
- 1st quarter assignments
- Sept. 9
Warmup programs, 3n+1 (general algorithms), Tally (1-dimension arrays),
Conway's Game of Life (2-dimension arrays), singly linked lists, binary search trees
- Monday Sept. 11 Draft Proposal #1, in .doc (Openoffice writer) and
LaTeX format.
See project checklist to help evaluate what may make good project ideas.
Hand in the pdf printed copy, also send me the pdf rdlatimer@tjhsst.edu
- Friday Sept. 15 Hand in
estimate/projections
(.doc) of your project's program versions for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd quarters. See the shell in LaTeX format.
Hand in the pdf printed copy, also send me the pdf rdlatimer@tjhsst.edu
- Read and agree to the Academic Integrity Statement (
.doc)
- Sept. 15
Research report 1
(.doc)
Also see
University CS department examples
and CS research papers examples, and
Research papers pt.2
- Sept. 18-28 Programming:
"iteration" #1
(.doc).
Alternate format:
Iteration report form
(.doc),
background info on iteration reports
- Sept. 25-29 Logs 1
(.doc) and record keeping for this week
- Sept. 29
Project Proposal Update, LaTeX.
- Interim grade
(.doc) for 1st quarter - What is due to be handed in.
- Oct. 2-6 Logs 2
(.doc) and record keeping for week 1 in October
- Oct. 9-13 Logs 3
(.doc) and record keeping for 2nd week in October
- Oct. 16-20 Logs 4
(.doc) and record keeping for 3rd week in October
- Oct. 23-31 Logs 5
(.doc) and record keeping for 4th week in October
- Iteration 2 report
(.doc form), Oct. 2 - 16, the first half of October. Also see
Software Construction checklist
(.doc)
- Iteration 3
(.doc)
report for Oct. 19 - 31, the second half of October. Also see
Lifecycle Planning
(.doc)
- Final Project Proposal in LaTeX - Oct. 30 use this general format - Project definition, purpose, background, computer language and software, algorithms and methods you will research, testing and analysis, scope of your research, and results you expect to achieve.
Here's an example
LaTeX shell
(pdf). Save as .tex and compile with
pdflatex proposal.tex to generate proposal.pdf
- 1st quarter wrap up - Oct. 30:
intro slide presentation,
intro poster
- Fill out anonymous
course survey form for 1st quarter.
Think of this as our class's "Customer collaboration over contract negotiation" and
"Responding to change over following a plan" from the
Agile software development manifesto.