Suggested Course Project: Its a Profs Life

Code base: cv.zip

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Week 1: Analysis: The Users Problem and the As Is State

The Users Problem

• Interview the user.
• What is the big pitcure problem the user is trying to solve?
• Good, Better, Best Analysis
• What are the key user tasks? Draw a process diagram.

The Existing Application

• What does the existing application do? Make a list of the key processes supported by the software.
• Create a set use case senarios.
• What are the key user tasks supported by the existing application? Draw a process diagram.
• What does the existing application require to be installed in the environment? Create a list.

The Existing Codebase

• What is the main call graph? (Hint: Start from cv.bat)
• What is the database schema?
• Which tables are arctual used? What parts of documents are "hand coded"?
• What is the assumed directory structure?
• How are errors handled?

Week 2: Analysis 2: The Abstraction and Figuring Out What Matters

Plan:

• Meeting notes (ARC)
• Intro to the Cloud
• Group work: ARC to review task 2
  • TA1: Review group pages, results of Task 1, create group listing page.
  • TA2: Assist groups in getting system running
  • ARC: Client for task 2.

Task 2: Analysis

• Create an abstract description of the problem.
• Get a handle on scale of data
• Generalize the requirements
• Find analogies to existing systems
  • http://www.mendeley.com/
• Looking for software that solves part of the problem
  • http://www.google.com/fusiontables/Home/
  • http://www.bibtex.org/
  • https://sites.google.com/
• Looking for data sources
  • http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/
  • http://scholar.google.ca/
  • http://academic.research.microsoft.com/
  • http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/index;jsessionid=64BE2CA876344665F14DA8D21A2D2E95
  • http://dl.acm.org/
  • http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/guesthome.jsp
  • http://www.confsearch.org/confsearch/
• Make an initial set of
  • Design goals
  • Design principals

Task 3: Analysis 3: Thinking about Technical Approaches

• Get a local copy of the original code base working
• Exploring technical approaches
  • Data storage?
  • UI?
  • Integration with other applications?
  • HTML Generation?
  • Latex Generation?
  • Bibligraphy?
  • Storage of PDFs
  • Web Site Management?
• What "technology proving" prototypes are required? Create a List.
• Create an initial Paper Prototype.