Lab Project Writeups
From students doing projects for my classes, I would like to see a
demo. However, since this is often not possible, as practice in writing
research papers on projects (you cannot do demos for hundreds of people)
the following is desired:
Even if you do show me a demo you still need to do this write up.
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an intro (what you are doing),
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enough background to understand the problem (should be references)
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background on what others have done in this and related areas,
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what you actually did
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a description of the solution/algorithm,
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a sample run (working) (you can talk about it (a specific
example - not generalities) or illustrate it with output lines).
The best is to provide a walk-through with screen shots. See
the page about taking screen snapshots
if you are not familiar with this.
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a sample run of a possible error situation (or a description
of what it would do...and possibly how it could be improved)
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discuss the limitations,
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discuss the goodness of the program.
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say where one could go from here...problems encountered in the
coding and design also any interesting peculiarities you may want to share.
For the background, you do not need as much as a research paper, but
you should have looked at *some* other work to get ideas