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- Instructors:
- Prof. Rahul Simha.
- Prof. Timothy Wood.
- Instructor emails:
- Time/place: This is an online course.
- Office Hours:
- Prof. Wood: TBA
- Prof. Simha: Tuesdays 1.30-3.00pm
- Prerequisites: - see undergraduate curriculum.
- Official catalog description: The first in the sequence of three capstone design project courses. Students develop a preliminary design for their project. Requirements include architectural design, user interface specification, and formal written reports.
- Informal description: This is all about defining your project and taking baby steps towards getting it started. In doing so, you will write small programs, explore APIs that you may use, and plan out a schedule of steps towards completion.
- Specific learning outcomes:
- Learn what constitutes a project.
- Explore ideas for projects.
- Critique project ideas.
- Develop at least one idea into a proposal.
- Textbook: There is no official textbook. Readings will be recommended where appropriate.
- Programming load: Mild. You will be expected to write small code snippets to test out APIs, and to play with ideas.
- Coursework and grading: See approximate grade breakdown.
- Assignment submission and late work policy:
- All reports, presentations and such will be submitted via the course wiki or project website.
- Points will be taken off for late submission, approximately one letter-grade for each 24-hour period after the due-date. These points will not not be pro-rated hourly. Thus, if something is due 5pm March 19th, a submission at 5.05pm March 19th drops a letter grade.
- If you're seeking an extension because you've been ill and have a letter from a doctor, come by and see me about it.
- Academic Integrity policy:
- In this course, you will be expected to work on all assigned coursework by yourself, unless otherwise specified by instructions on this site. If you have any questions whatsoever regarding these policies, see me during office hours.
- You may not, without permission from the instructor, exchange course-related code with anyone (including anyone not registered in the course), or download code for use in your coursework, or use material from books other than the textbook. Likewise, you may not look at anyone else's code or show your code to anyone else. Protect your work: for example, be careful not to leave your printouts around.
- If you use material in your assignments that are from outside the course material, then you should be prepared to explain that material. The instructors and TAs reserve the right to question you on your use of extraneous material. Failure to answer such questions might be viewed as grounds for an integrity violation.
- The Academic Integrity Code will apply to this course. Please read through the code carefully.
- Penalties for violating the code or the policies described here include failing this course, and are elaborated in the Academic Integrity Code.
- Late policy: As such, the standard university late policy will apply to most deliverables. That is, if you have a valid reason, such as a medical issue, then a late submission is acceptable if discussed with the instructor. However, in this course, there are some deliverables that occur at fixed dates, such as the presentations. For the presentations, you absolutely need to be there for the final presentation and the SD Final Day. For presentations 1-4, we will take the best three scores and count those towards the final grade.
- If you have a disability that may effect your participation in this course and wish to discuss academic acommodations, please contact me as soon as possible.