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Name: R. J. Scott McKenzie <rmckenzi@cs>

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Questions/comments about the syllabus or project handout:

-Under "Assessment", it says that late handins make you lose 5% 
of a letter grade.  Does this mean that a final grade of 97 goes 
to a 96.5 (5% of a letter grade), or to a 92 (5% of final grade)?


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Project Title 1: Virtual Teacher's Assistant

Brief Description: A program that allows teachers to maintain a
local database of information necessary for the course.  This 
would include assignments, grades, scheduling information, 
and student information.  It would include support for webpage
updates (e.g. automatically releasing information about assignments
to students on the hand-out date).

Identify Local Users: Educators, especially at the university level

Assign a 1-5 score for these criteria
	Useful to others: 4
	Has specific users: 5
	Can be scaled up to PC product: 4
	Divisible: 3
	In C++ on Suns: 4

	Overall: 4

Pros: Database, GUI, authentication examples available for integration
into project idea

Cons: Modifying webpages may be slightly ambitious

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Project Title 2: PCGen .lst Creator

Brief Description: A program which allows users to create their
own .lst files for the PCGen program

Identify Local Users:

Assign a 1-5 score for these criteria
	Useful to others: 2
	Has specific users: 5
	Can be scaled up to PC product: 2
	Divisible: 2
	In C++ on Suns: 3

	Overall: 2

Pros: Would eliminate the hassle of manually creating .lst files
for the program (similar to writing HTML by hand)

Cons: User base of program is fairly limited, as PCGen is only 
useful to people that play d20-based role-playing games. Also,
probably not divisible amongst 10 people (maybe 3 or 4).

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Project Title 3: Combination Real-time Strategy/First Person Shooter

Brief Description: A game which allows the commander of an army 
to control multiple units in teh style of a real-time strategy
as well as control individual units in the style of a first
person shooter.

Identify Local Users: Video game players

Assign a 1-5 score for these criteria
	Useful to others: 2
	Has specific users: 4
	Can be scaled up to PC product: 4
	Divisible: 4
	In C++ on Suns: 3

	Overall: 3

Pros: Conceptually an interesting idea, combining two types of
video games that have similar fan bases.

Cons: Very ambitious.  Also, not "useful" as it is a game.

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