Announcements

• Final Client Tech Transfer meetings will take place next week, plan on the meeting taking 45-60 minutes:
  • Everyone on the team is expected to attend this final meeting
  • At least one person from the course staff must attend this final meeting
  • All code/documentation changes must be complete before this final meeting
  • Demo any new features/changes done and user testing feedback since your last meeting (or show the entire app if requested by the client)
  • Go over all the project details your client will need to know to support it going forward (which should also be in the documentation as well)
• Upcoming Deadlines
  • Technical Documentation Final, due at final client Tech Transfer meeting

 

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Projects

This semester our teams are working on these projects

Course Description

In this course, you will gain experience with the entire program development project cycle, from initial conception through user acceptance. You will be exposed to a broad perspective of issues related to the management of technology including feasibility assessment, project planning, project implementation, performance testing, documentation, marketing, and roll-out. This course will include many guest lectures from industry partners to provide contact with people actually involved in delivering software.

You will work in teams on a large software project that has an actual customer who expects to use the software after the course ends. Through these activities, you will gain program development skills that parallel real-world processes. Project ideas will be solicited from local clients that can be on-site to work with you and that tend towards non-traditional platforms or user interfaces. You will make a public presentation of the project results at the conclusion of the course.

The goal of this course is to expose students to a realistic model for the effective design and construction of software programs, and provide a useful experience in technology development. As such, students must have completed at least CompSci 307, CompSci 308 or equivalent team project experiences.

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