Guidelines to My Students

Nansha Forum pps file

You must have a well-designed home page with at least the following information

Email address and office phone number
Link to your projects
Restricted access to some un-published information
- home phone number
- working papers
- working projects

If you do a FYP project with me, you have to follow the steps below.

Identify the project topic (discuss with me)
You have to establish a project web page which keeps all information about the project
- Public pages:
  - Project code name
  - Project description
  - Project team members and contact information
  - Other information you wish to share in public
- Restricted Pages
  - Meeting record (time and place of the meeting, present and absent members, "things to do" or decisions of the meeting, etc.)
  - All documents described below
Project description (Powerpoint format): before you start design and coding, you have to prepare
- project description and objectives
- user scenario description
- requirement analysis
- project schedule
Design document: give a detailed design document before coding
- appropriate models (functional, object, etc.)
- test procedure
Coding and testing
You have to use version control software, such as Microsoft SourceSafe. This is very important.
Initial demonstration to me
Final project delivery
- presentation
  - 20-30 minutes presentation (powerpoint format)
  - 15-20 minutes demonstration
- documentation
  - project report (to all committee members and to the Department)
- software package
  - source code
  - installation guide
  - usage guide
  - documents (all of the above documents in Powerpoint or Word format)

L.M. Ni, Preparing Technical Reports Using MS Word (doc), May 2003. You have to read this report carefully before starting to write your first technical paper.
S.L. Kleiman, "Writing amath phase two paper," (ps)

S.L.P. Jones, J. Hughes, J. Launchbury, "How to give a good research talk," (ps)

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