APS 105S - Computer Fundamentals

Project Report Structure and Marking

Winter 1998

Final Report Due April 3, 4pm in Room Pratt 484
-1 mark (out of 30) for every minute late
Place Your Report in the Box Labelled with Your TA's Name

 

1 IMPORTANT

ON THE FRONT OF YOUR REPORT, BE SURE TO PUT:

• Your Teaching Assistant's Name - see the web if you're not sure who it was - this should be the TA who approved your project and saw your demo. If you don't put the right TA's name, your project will not be marked.
• Your lab day (monday or tuesday).
• Your name and student number.

2 Project Report Outline

The total length of your report should be no more than 2000 words, per person. Shorter is OK, as long as you feel you've said what needs to be said. Your report should have four sections and an appendix, as described below:

1. Introduction and Motivation. What you're doing and why it is interesting, worthwhile, and/or provides a good learning experience.
2. Design. Describe how your programs works - the major procedures and their function and how they interact. A block diagram showing these pieces is usually helpful here.
3. Report on Success. Did your program work? If so show that it did by reproducing the output of the program. (You can do this by sending output to a file and printing the file, or, if you know how, capture a window on your ECF screen using the xv program, or some program on your PC.)
4. Conclusions. Summarize your project in a few words, and say what you would do differently if you were going to do it all over again.
5. Appendix. Include a printed copy of your code, with comments.

3 Marking

The project is worth 10% of your final mark. It will be marked out of 30, broken down the following way: