Summary of assignments for the year, for each quarter:

Webpage portfolio assignments: http://www.tjhsst.edu/~rlatimer/assignments2009/compsys2009.html

1. Weekly logs/record keeping of your progress.
2. Estimations and timelines for planning your project's progress. Use an iterative model, iterate in 2-3 week cycles:
   1. Plan
   2. Design
   3. Code
   4. Test
   5. Analyze and re-evaluate for the next iteration cycle
3. Writing your project proposal and project title - due as soon as you can 1st quarter
4. Research in your project area: literature reviews (for example portal.acm.org Digital library and arxiv.org from Cornell U., George Mason Univ library access – sign up for an account)
5. Testing your program, analyzing results
6. Describing the development of your program, orally and written
7. Writing 1st, 2nd, 3rd*, 4th quarter versions of (*note that for scheduling and planning your project – most of your project needs to be completed by the end of 3rd quarter):
   1. research paper (LaTeX and pdf)
   2. poster
   3. presentation slides
   4. program code and description of analysis
8. Other relevant work you've done
9. Writing the one page Project Description 4th quarter
10. TJStar Presentation, May 2010

**Note that you cannot pass the course and cannot receive credit for this course without handing in final versions of this portfolio, no matter how you've scored in grading for 1st-3rd quarters