Final Project | ICS 314, Fall 2015

Learning Outcomes

Use an IDE (IntelliJ IDEA) effectively

You can use IntelliJ IDEA easily and effectively for source code construction and modification.
You can configure IntelliJ IDEA to load within 10 seconds.
You have learned keybindings necessary to use IntelliJ IDEA efficiently for Javascript programming.

Competent with elementary Javascript

You can create local and global functions, and manipulate objects and arrays.
You can pass functions as parameters, and create anonymous functions.
You can use the Underscore Javascript library to simplify manipulation of data structures.

Use configuration management tools and techniques effectively

You understand the motivation for version control and configuration management
You can use git commands to support version control.
You can set up a GitHub account and use it to manage files.
You can implement project enhancements by creating and merging branches.

Create high quality technical essays

You demonstrate the ability to write professional-quality technical essays.

Efficiently create software that conforms to standards

You understand the benefits of coding standards and why they improve the quality and efficiency of software development.
You can recognize the presence (or absence) of standards and make software conform if necessary.
You can take advantage of tool support to automate compliance with certain standards.

Use and develop open source software appropriately

You can choose a suitable open source license for your projects.
You can create software projects that satisfy the three prime directives and thus can support an open source community.
You can interact with the open source community via appropriate questions and forums.

Design and implement web pages using HTML and CSS

You can use HTML and CSS to design basic web pages.
You can use tools (IntelliJ, Chrome Developer Tools, LiveReload) to design and implement pages quickly.

Design using Twitter Bootstrap

You can use Twitter Bootstrap to design modern, responsive, and attractive web pages.

Design using Meteor Framework

You understand basic principles of Meteor: reactive variables, collections, publications, helpers, templates.
You can develop basic CRUD applications quickly and effectively.
You can implement authentication and authorization.
You can use extensions and templates: AutoForm, Twitter Bootstrap, Iron Router, meteor-application-template.

Practice simple project planning techniques

Learn to collaborate more efficiently in a team by breaking a project into sequence of milestones, and each milestone into issues which are assigned to group members and tracked in GitHub.

Write useful project documentation

Learn to write user and developer-level documentation.

Assessments

Assess your ability to complete M1

This assessment evaluated the ability of teams to create the first Milestone deliverable.

Some of the system issues for teams to work on for the next milestone include:

UI formatting: Do better than the example format with the six large format plain Jane buttons! It’s not good! That student had only one day to design it: you all have a month! Go find sites with layouts you like, then inspect their HTML and “be inspired” by it.
Whenever the user submits a form, the system must provide feedback to user about whether the submit was successful. (The system should also do validation whenever necessary.)
Users should select texts via pull-down menus (what would be best is to select the course with one pull down menu, then a second pull-down menu would display only the textbooks associated with the selected course).
The user’s email should be the UH email they logged in with. You should capture that automatically on login.
Home page should provide a nicely formatted description of what the site does and why the student would want to login to use it.
Stick to fontawesome for icons unless you really need something different.

Some process issues:

Everyone should add their profile photo to HuBoard so it is easy to tell who is assigned to which issues.
Everyone should always be assigned at least one issue they are working on and one issue that is “ready” for them to work on once they finish the one they are currently working on. I will check your HuBoards occasionally to see if that’s true.
I did not review the GitHub home page and wiki pages for M1, but these will be looked at for M2.
Try add GitHub integration to your Slack teams so you get a notification whenever anyone commits.

Milestone presentation behavior:

Some people left class after their milestone presentation was done. That was very disrespectful to the other students. If you do that again, you will get no credit for that milestone.

Assess your ability to complete M2

This assessment evaluates the ability of students to create the second Milestone deliverable.

Assess your ability to complete M3

This assessment evaluates the ability of students to create the third Milestone deliverable.

Module: Final Project

Learning Outcomes

Use an IDE (IntelliJ IDEA) effectively

Competent with elementary Javascript

Use configuration management tools and techniques effectively

Create high quality technical essays

Efficiently create software that conforms to standards

Use and develop open source software appropriately

Design and implement web pages using HTML and CSS

Design using Twitter Bootstrap

Design using Meteor Framework

Practice simple project planning techniques

Write useful project documentation

Readings

Guided tour of the final project module

TextBook Exchange Requirements

The three prime directives for open source development

ICS 414, Software Engineering II, Spring 2016

Final Project UI Design Tips

Experiential Learning

Final Project: Milestone 1

Final Project: Milestone 2

Final Project: Milestone 3

Final Exam

Final Portfolio

Assessments

Assess your ability to complete M1

Assess your ability to complete M2

Assess your ability to complete M3