Copy into your editor, fill in the blanks, and place in directory
/pro/web/web/courses/cs190/asgns/1-28/LOGIN2.txt.  Replace LOGIN
with your CS login.  Note the 2 there so that you don't overwrite the
first handin!  Come up with at least 3 potential projects.

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Name:  Michelle Neuringer

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Questions/comments about the syllabus or project handout:

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Project Title 1:  Design for Dummies (for lack of a better title)

This idea is a software/product design tool.  It's partially inspired
by students' frustrations with Rational Rose in cs32.  It's a tool 
that would have the power of design tools used in industry, though
geared specifically toward smaller or relatively novice software/product teams.  Its functionality could include:
	+ generating UML diagrams from graphical input (point, click and a box shows up, similar to Rose) as well as from fields in a form. Also it would be cool for the program to parse files and build UML diagrams from them - using keywords like Javadoc, but generating diagrams as opposed to documentation
	+ updating/adjusting diagrams automatically when design is augmented/changed 
	+ there could be a presentation element to the program - diagrams could be easily incorporated into various presentation formats, like slideshows (helpful for project teams to present to managers or clients)
	+ generated diagrams could serve as a way for programmers to test how solid their designs are (perhaps animations to test flow of
control between objects?)
	+ project could be extended to include code generation
	+ it would be great for it not to be just for programmers (hence the ambiguous "product teams")

Local Users:  cs32 students, project teams

Score
        Useful to others: sure (9)
        Has specific users: definitely (10)
        Can be scaled up to PC product: i think so (10)
        Divisible: yup (8)
        In C++ on Suns: yup (10)

        Overall: more rational than rose (47)

Pros: a sizeable user pool, extensible

Cons: without the code generation aspect (which I don't think the
project needs), it might be too easy.

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Project Title 2:  Collaborative Music-Making Tool

This project would involve creating an environment (a networked or online community) in which users could come together to create synthesized music, share music samples, and evaluate/critique others' compositions.

Local Users:  music lovers, composers and dabblers

Score
        Useful to others: yes (7)
        Has specific users: yes (10)
        Can be scaled up to PC product: probably better as an Internet thing (7)
        Divisible: yes (9)
        In C++ on Suns: yes (7)

        Overall: everyone better love music (40)

Pros: I could be very happy working on this project.  

Cons: hard to convince people that it's useful.  you can't tell its usefulness until you try using it.

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Project Title 3:  Java GUI Builder

This was a cs32 final project last year.  We could make it better.

Local Users:  Java programmers who hate writing and tweaking GUI code.

Score
        Useful to others: 10
        Has specific users: 10
        Can be scaled up to PC product: 10
        Divisible: 10
        In C++ on Suns: 10

        Overall: 50

Pros: extremely useful, lots of users.

Cons: this was a cs32 final project last year.