As we’ve discussed, the deadline for completing your term projects is 5PM on Friday May 3. At that time, I expect that you have completed your term project and its description in html and linked everything so that it can be seen from your website by an external viewer (that is, somebody not in the LRC). There is no requirement to turn in anything on paper.
The list of term projects available can be seen at:
http://www.ce.utexas.edu/prof/maidment/ce311k/docs/termproj.htm
If your project is posted now, I have linked to the project file. If it is not yet posted, I have linked to your home page, so that when your project is posted there, I will be able to go to it.
Your term paper in html should include:
Some suggestions after viewing some of the completed projects and programs:
1. Be careful that your user interface is not too large. The computers in the LRC have large screens and high pixel resolution. If you use all of that, likely portions of the right side and the bottom of your user interface will not be viewable in a computer with a smaller screen and less pixel resolution.
2. Make sure that your project report file has an absolute web page address, such as the one give above for the term project list. If you just make a link in Word to a document in your Z drive, it may be that all that is stored is the related address on the Z drive, which means that only you can see it, and then only when you are working in the LRC.
3.
Make your submitted project description a .htm or
.html file. You can do this in
Word by saving the file using Save As/ Web Page. This will create the text htm file and an attached folder of
images from your Word doc. The
advantage of having the file saved as web page is that the text automatically
adjusts itself to whatever width of screen the web page viewer provides. If you display the report as a Word .doc
file, the format is fixed and may run over the right hand side of computers
with small screens. It’s a lot easier
to create web pages in Word and save as Web Page than trying to do the html as
a text file.
4.
If
your project is done in VBA for Excel, attach the .xls file from Excel
to your project report html file. If
your project is done in Visual Basic, you must make both the .vbp and .frm
files available if the project is to be executed in design mode by somebody
else. You should also convert the
project to an executable by using File/Make ….exe. Executable files cannot be downloaded from a website directly,
so the best way to make them available is to put them inside a Winzip archive,
as I demonstrated in class on Tuesday.
This makes a .zip file that you can attach to your web page and
that I can download.
I am going to ask Hiroshi to
make a preliminary pass through all the projects to make sure that they are
displayed correctly after 5PM on Friday.
The term project is worth
20% of the final grade. When I grade
the project, I will be looking for:
Good luck!! It’s been fun seeing these projects grow
and evolve this semester into some really neat finished results.