Initial Term Project Proposal

general

• submit to the class blog what you imagine your final project to be.
• your submission should have your name in the title
• submit in the category "Project Proposal"

details on your submission

describe the project

• describe fully what your application will do. For example, "I am going to write a shooting game" is not enough. Instead describe the shooting game. For example:
  • How do the various ships move?
  • What sort of logic will be necessary?
  • Can you describe some of the logic involved?
  • How does your code break up into significant sections?
    • Can you describe these sections
    • How will these sections interact with each other

  • Are the enemy ships from the planet Zerba or the planet Zalba? very important.

• describe what tools you will need (map builder, mod tracker, etc.)
• describe both what you already know how to do and what you do not know how to do

provide a timeline

• Phase I (April 14) and Phase II (April 28) need to be significant milestones in your project.
  • On these days you will demonstrate to the class exactly what work you have done.
• Outside of the milestones, you should have at least 3 dates outlining goals of what you are going to have done and by when.
• The Phase II milestone should show your project almost complete.
• Your milestones and goals need to be specifically measurable. For example "I will know how to program the ship movements" is not an acceptable milestone. Instead "I will post to the class blog my code which controls the ship movements as I want them in the game" is better.

parting remarks

• A good submission will be at least several paragraphs. If yours is less, look to add more specifics of how you are going to do what you propose to do and what milestones you might add to your project.
• You can propose to work as a team of 2 people on the same project, but I am not encouraging this. If you do propose to work together:
  • Make sure you outline how the responsibilities on the team will be divided.
  • Know that I will still grade you individually on the project based on the quality I perceive your individual work to be.
  • Have a plan from the beginning for how each of you will document your work so it is clear what each of you have contributed.
• This is considered an initial exploration of what you will do. The finished idea, accepted by me, is not due until March 31. Therefore:
  • Feel free to speculate more freely on what you'd really like to do. We can refine later.
  • You are encouraged to comment on each other's submissions, suggest ideas to each other, etc.

• I must approve all project proposals before they will be accepted as projects.