Transcript Investigating a File Transmission Protocol using CSP and B

CS300 Planning and Executing a
Project
Helen Treharne
(Bogdan Vrusias)
Overview
 How to organise yourself?
 Make time for your work
 What resources are available to you
 Are there different kinds of projects?
 Development Projects
 Research Projects
 Assessment of Projects
 Deliverables and submission
 Plagiarism
 Questions
Aims of CS300
 To put into practice various concepts and
techniques studied in the Computing and IT
programme
 Apply scientific and software/hardware
techniques to solving a problem
 Develop skills in information gathering
 Analyse the solution to evaluate the associated
results
 Demonstrate the ability to time manage tasks
 Demonstrate the ability to present the project
work both orally and written
How much time is it going to take?
 CS300 is worth 45 credits, that is, the equivalent
of three 15-credit final-year options
 Effort expected 450 hours including writing up
 20 hours per week over 23 weeks (not including exam
periods)
 Amount of time required should be taken seriously,
and if you do not work hard enough in the first
semester you can be sure to run into time pressures
later!
 Make a block of time in the timetable to work on
your project
Resources Available
 On-line searching for books/papers
 Colin Smith – library information skills
sessions (week 3)
 Internet – but can’t guarantee quality
 Make use of your supervisor
 Regular meetings
 Keep them informed of progress – be honest
Development Projects
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Identify broad area
Identify the problem & client (stake holder)
Select method of solution
Specify the solution
Design the solution
Build the solution
Test the solution
Present the findings
Example
 Design and build a Java Peer-Peer file sharing
system between a small number of users
 Investigate existing peer-peer systems and evaluate
what functions they provide, identify a set of features
would like to include and ones which are not included
but would like to implement
 Use advanced features of Java Programming including
object serialisation and network programming which
will need to be learnt independently
 Why student chose this – interested in music
sharing systems, e.g. Napster
PDA Information System
Membership Number
Gym Member
Gym Instructor
Enter Membership Number
Select Exercise Type
3
View Member
View Exercise
History
View Stretch History
D1: Members
D4: Stretch Exercises
View Cardio History
View Weight History
D2: Weight Exercises
D3: Cardio Exercises
Aims of PDA Information System
 The aim of this project is to gain an understanding of handheld
devices and to develop a software application that can be used to
assist gym instructors. The project has five main objectives:
 To provide a portable handheld solution to allow gym instructors to
design fitness programs for gym members by using a Personal
Digital Assistant (PDA).
 To design and implement a software application for the PDA that will
be able to transfer data to a database held on a server.
 The user interface of the software application will be designed
according to Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and heuristics
techniques, to make it user friendly.
 The project will demonstrate the functionality of the PDA whilst
combining a wireless technology to assist with the transfer of data.
 The project will adopt current analysis and design strategies to
describe the life cycle of the systems development.
Undertaking a Development Project
 You might still need to acquire new skills
 Database example
 Architecture – what platform, software going
to use
 Accessing a database – write simple
examples
 Web front end – CSS, XML
 Secure login – use of hash functions
 It still has to do something!
Research Projects
A process model:
Identify broad area;
Select Research Topic;
Decide the approach;
Formulate research plan;
Collect data or information;
Analyse and interpret data;
Present the findings.
Examples of Research Projects
 Integrated Solution for Project
Management and Risk Assessment
 Neural Network for Medical Diagnosis
Using Diabetes Dataset
 Using Digital Signatures in Electronic
forms
Assessment
1. Memorandum of Agreement signed by
you & your supervisor (week 5 Autumn)
2. Technical discussion with supervisor &
another examiner (10%) (week 1 Spring)
3. Project Report (70%) (week 11 Spring)
4. Viva Examination with supervisor &
same examiner (20%) (week 12 Spring)
5. Draft report is expected (week 8 Spring)
Action points from last year’s
feedback
 60% gave their supervisors a draft report.
Clarify expectation about meetings.
 A lecture on preparing for a viva.
 90% agreed that this lecture gave clear
instructions on the deliverables and effort
involved.
Writing Up
 Write up as you go along
 Target audience – one of your peers
should be able to understand it
 Aim for 30-50 A4 pages excluding
appendices
 Need to start early to get used to writing
Contents of Report
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Literature Search
Investigation
Specification
Development
Evaluation/Testing
Critique of work
Future work
Reports can vary in format
 If your project consists of four quite distinct
activities
 Choose 4 main chapters, one for each activity
 Sections in each chapter address
 Design, Implementation and Evaluation.
 Consider design of each activity separately but to
consider the implementation and evaluation of them
together.
 Overall aim is to make it easy for the reader to
understand the points you are trying to make
 http://www.pums.cam.port.ac.uk/projects/d
ocs/projrpt.htm (accessed 13/09/05)
Plagiarism
 You will have used many sources of information, vital
any quote properly acknowledged where used in the text
and in bibliography (see Citation guide)
 If your program includes any pieces of code which you
did not write yourself, then you must identify them and
say where they came from. For example, if you copy an
implementation of a particular algorithm from a book, you
must make it clear that you did not write those lines of
code.
 Under no circumstances should copyright material be
included in a project report without the proper
permissions having been obtained, and any such
inclusion should be agreed with your supervisor.
General guidance
http://www.computing.surrey.ac.uk/courses/c
s300