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Josiah Hester
Jeff Leyh
 Will Lemmon
Brandon Makofsky
Zachary Musgrave
 Kelly Poulsen
Patrick Vanstee
Eric Anderson
 Gent Kepuska
John Caylor
Dana Leonard

End of Semester Deadlines
  1. First drafts, noon, Monday April 20
  2. Put everything in a *.zip, *.tar, or *.rar file on your website
  3. Will be returned with feedback, Noon, Monday, April 28
  4. Final drafts, Noon, Friday May 2 (hard deadline!)

Structure
  1. Introduction
  2. Problem Statement: what problem am I trying to solve?
  3. Background: other solutions
  4. Proposed Solution
  5. Demo (at least 10 minutes, possbily up to 20)
  6. Summary Results
  7. Conclusions and Future Work
  8. Acknowledgements

Tips
  1. Look at your audience; make eye contact
  2. Smile
  3. Speak clearly
  4. Slides: short phrases
  5. Pictures help a lot
  6. Always speak in the first person, plural (editorial "we")

Practice Presentation Schedule

Presentation Schedule, Monday, April 27, 3:00 - 5:30 pm

Documents: Tech Ref Manual, User Manual, Poster, PowerPoint Presentation, Code

Assignments (Spring 2008):
  1. January 15: Discussion of Android and Apple SDK, Will introduces Visual Studio
  2. January 17: Snow Day
  3. January 22: Assignment #1, Simple application (e.g., Tic-Tac-Toe), Will discusses Assignment #2
  4. January 24: Android program observation
  5. January 29: Assignment #2, Intermediate application (e.g., Connect-4 and others)
  6. January 31: Discussion of possible projects
  7. February 5: Assignment #3, Standalone laptop application accessing database (e.g., Appointment book and others). Will describes web applications.
  8. February 7:
  9. February 12-14:
  10. February 17-19:
  11. February 19-21:
  12. February 25-27:

Projects (Spring 2008):
  1. Tools:
    1. web-applications, backend database, cell phones (one of I/O): camera/video/SMS/GPS, Treo (Windows Mobile 5.0), ATT Tilt (Mobile 6.0), Sony Vaio (micro PC, Bluetooth, WiFi, ATT cell), Motorola phones (open GPS), Google SDK emulator, IP cameras, Zipit (Linux, 32 Mb memory, 4 Gb mini-SD card)

Assignments (Spring 2007):
  1. January 18: Assignment #1, Simple application (e.g., Tic-Tac-Toe)
  2. January 25: Assignment #2, Intermediate application (e.g., Connect-4 and others)
  3. February 1: Snow Day
  4. February 6: Presentation on Developing Mobile Device Applications (Adam Goodbar)
  5. February 8: Assignment #3, Standalone laptop application accessing database (e.g., Appointment book and others)
  6. February 13: Presentation on Developing Webservices (Austin Grigg)
  7. February 15: Assignment #4, Standalone, emulated, mobile device application
  8. February 20: Presentation on Developing Web Applications (running on buckbeak)
  9. February 22: Assignment #5, Standalone, emulated, mobile device application accessing database
  10. February 27: Presentation on sending SMS messages and email programmatically
  11. March 1: Assignment #6, Web application accessing database

Projects (Spring 2007):
  1. February 28: Assignment #1
    Half-page paragraph project proposal

  2. March 7: Assignment #2
    Two-page description of functionalities of your program
    One-page ER diagram of database tables

  3. March 14: Assignment #3
    Final version of database
    Detailed weekly set of goals for the following Wednesdays:
    March 28, April 4, April 11, April 18, April 25

  4. March 28: Assignment #4
    Clear assignment of tasks to individuals

    Demonstrate progress on overall project
    Demonstrate progress on individual tasks

  5. April 4: Focus on April 2 presentation
    Poster templates distributed

  6. April 11: Assignment #5

  7. April 16: FoCI Poster presentations: Madren Center
    April 18: Assignment #6

  8. April 25: Assignment #7

  9. May 1: Final presentations

  10. May 4: Final submission of projects

Topics (Spring 2007):