Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Teams (group of 6 students) are required to email their team members (the names and corresponding Knights email addresses) to the instructor by 5pm on January 16th.
Teams are required to email to the instructor their top three choices of the class projects from the list of available projects by 5pm on January 18th. The projects will be assigned on a first-come first-serve basis.
Please use the following format for the subject line when you are emailing the instructor or the TAs: "COP4331-Spr13: appropriate title".
I advise students who are in need of joining a class project team to email me for the placement.
Each team is required to have a class project page where the team deliverables and presentations are to be posted for grading. Teams are required to send the link for their class project links to the instructor no later than the due date of the deliverables 1.

Thursday, January 10, 2013:

Please see the class project page if you have not send me your project preferences. The page is currently up-to-date.
There WILL be recitations on the first week of the classes.
The class emailing list (cop4331-spr13@eecs.ucf) is populated with the currently enrolled students and will be updated by early next week. Feel free to send email to the list. Please note that use the email that you're registered on my.ucf.edu (for most students its their Knights email address). If you use any other address, the mail will bounced and not reach the list.

Sunday, January 13, 2013:

Please see the class project page if you have not send me your project preferences. The page is currently up-to-date. At most two teams can work on the same project.
Homework 1 is posted and its due on January 29th. Please submit the homework through Webcourses using the following format: COP4331C_Spr13_HW1_LastName_FirstName.pdf

Thursday, February 14, 2013:

The deadline for homework 2 is extended till March 3rd, 11:59pm. There will no additional extensions given.
Deliverables 2 must be submitted through webcourses2 by Feb. 26th.

Thursday, February 21, 2013:

Here is the summary of what is expected from the team project presentations:

The cover slide including the project title and names of the team members.
The outline of the presentation which should include main files that you will be discussing (documents from Deliverables I & II).
Every team member is required to present part of the presentation.
Each team will have 20 minutes (20 minutes presentation with 5 minutes Q&A session).
A hard copy of the presentation slides should be handed in to the instructor on the day of the team presentation.
Each team must also post their project presentation slides at the time of their presentations.

Thursday, February 28, 2013:

Please send me the links for your class project page such that they can be linked from the class projects page.
Please remember to submit homework 2 on March 3rd at 11:59pm.

Monday, April 15, 2013:

Check your team project link in the class projects page and if it's not linked, send your class project link to the instructor ASAP.
The order of the team project presentation are as follows:
April 16th (Tuesday): Teams 20, 19, 18, 17, 16 [6pm-7:15pm]
April 18th (Thursday): Teams 15, 14, 13, 12 [6pm-7pm]
April 19th (Friday): Teams 11-1 [2:30pm-5:15pm] [in BA2 207]
Here is the exact schedule of the presentations on April 19th (Friday):
2:30pm-2:45pm: Team 11
2:45pm-3:00pm: Team 9
3:00pm-3:15pm: Team 8
3:15pm-3:30pm: Team 5
3:30pm-3:45pm: Team 7 [requested]
3:45pm-4:00pm: Team 6 [requested]
4:00pm-4:15pm: Team 10 [requested]
4:15pm-4:30pm: Team 4
4:30pm-4:45pm: Team 3
4:45pm-5:00pm: Team 2
5:00pm-5:15pm: Team 1
5:15pm-5:30pm: back-up time slot

Here is the summary of what is expected from the final team project demos and presentations:

The demos/presentations should be 12-15 minutes
Present at most two slides for cumulative lessons learned by your team (these lessons can be technical and non-technical)
Include a slide IF and ONLY-IF your system have missing mandatory functional and/or non-functional requirement
No need to show the user's manual unless it's embedded in the software where you can quickly show it during the demo
A hard copy of the presentation slides should be handed in to the instructor on the day of the team presentation.
Each team must also post their project presentation slides at the time of their presentations.

Even though individual lessons learned (ILL) document is part of your final deliverables, each team member is required to turn in a copy of his/her own through webcourses2 to allow you freely evaluate your team members.
The format should be the same as the homeworks before: COP4331C_Spr13_ILL_LastName_FirstName.pdf
My extended office hours for this week includes the following:
April 16th: 4:30pm-5:45pm AND 7:30pm-8:45pm
April 18th: 4:30pm-5:45pm [after class office hours will be held on April 19th instead]
April 19th: 1:00pm-2:20pm
Kia's extended office hours:
April 15th and April 17th: 12pm-2:30pm (HEC 308)
Chris's hours are shifted a bit in order not to overlap with my extended office hours. Please check the board in CAVE to see where he is if he's not in the room
April 16th and 18th: 2:00pm-5:00pm (HEC 308)