Notes for Week #12: Prototype Demonstations and Discussions I

Roger B. Blumberg, CS92/ED89, 227 CIT
http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs092/2000/cs92.rbb12.html

A CS92 Project Checklist

This week we begin looking at and discussing prototypes of the programs and, as there is no reading assigned for the rest of the semester, all your efforts should be focused on the completion, revision and refinement (and of course the regular, reliable backing up of all files that are a part) of your projects. To that end, here is a checklist of what will constitute your finished project:

Although we don't expect that many of your have spent much time on documentation so far, we do expect you to turn your attention to it very soon. For interesting examples of documentation external to the software, see the excellent materials prepared for the Building Blast! and Colonial Times projects last year, and the Campaign Trail and Pizarro's Haunted Mansion projects from 1998. Interesting examples of self-contained documentation can be found in the Color Theory and WIRES projects from 1998.

Finally, we would like all the teams to do some sort of user testing/study before the programs are finished. This can be something as informal as the observation of students using the prototypes, or something more structured, but the results should be documented as part of the project pages.


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