Project Description
CSC 314 

Due: at many times in the future, so keep watching

Turn in: 

• To be discussed and detailed below
• Several check-points and steps

Note:   While you are working on this project, other class activities will still be assigned

• Exam and Final
• Homework assignments

Tentative Dates - see below for description of activities

• Friday October 31 - Project Proposal submitted in class
• Friday November 21 - Project Progress CheckPoint
• Monday December 1 - Presentations begin
• Wednesday December 10 - Documentation and CDs due for all projects
• Thursday December 18 - Final Exam  10:10 - 12:10

Project goals

• Learn new aspects of assembly language
• Research and problem solving
• Motivation, determination, and programming
• Apply to areas of interest or at least interesting/large projects
• Work on a larger program
• Work as a team

Project background

• work on a larger assembly language project
• small groups
  • groups of 3? (2 to 4?)
• project should involve
  • good programming structure
  • abstraction
  • user interaction
  • more advanced/details features than assignments
  • more interesting topics than assignments
• some ideas for discussion
  • scrolling menu
  • mouse tracker
  • keyboard control on on-screen object
  • Etch-a-Sketch like program
  • Hardware interface (ports, speakers, ...)
  • Some type of game
  • substantial programming project
  • efficiency comparison
  • algorithms and data structures
• this project will span a couple weeks
  • but that does not imply you should wait a couple weeks to begin working on it

Tentative Project Requirements

Project Proposal

• you should have an idea for your project topic
• Friday Oct 31: submit a project proposal containing
  • brief project description
  • list of group members working on the project

Progress Report

• check-point to see how things are going
• Friday November 21
• written report discussing
  • project description
  • progress and effort
  • successes, failures, challenges, outlook for project
• this should become a starting point for your final report

Project Presentation

• December 1 - ??
• discuss purpose/goal for project - what did you do
• demonstrate project
• discuss design strategy and technique - how did you do it
  • very little code should be displayed

Project Evaluation

• Peer evaluation of presentation & project
• Peer evaluation for group members
• Self evaluation of contribution
• My evaluation

Project Submission

• The final project packet will contain the following elements
  • Printed
    • Written report
    • Program - documented
  • CD - in case, labeled (Project, Group, Class, Semester)
    • Report
    • Source Code - complete
    • Executable
    • Everything I need to build and run the project