CS 451-2 Syllabus

CS 451-2
Senior Project

General info:

We will not be meeting as a class, but individually or in teams. The exception is (possibly) the first time, when we will discuss ideas for projects. If you're already in my Senior Project class, you'll need to come to that first meeting anyway, to talk about what you're doing.

There is no text, but you may need to buy a book for your specific project.

You can take the 451-2 sequence in any order. It's that independent.

Contact information:

phone extension 8157
email: briggs dot double u at lynchburg.edu
office: Hobbes 104. If the door's open (and it almost always will be, if I'm there), you are welcome, office hours or not.
office hours TBA
Web site: cs.lynchburg.edu/briggs

Motivation:

to undertake some significant CS project, either in research or software development.

Grading:

This is up in the air, until we meet and discuss what we're doing. This is my best guess for now. If we need to do some software engineering, I'll make appropriate changes.

First semester: requirements document, design document: 10% each
weekly meeting grades: 20%
final project: 60%

Second semester: presentation at Student Scholar Showcase or Research and Internship Symposium: 20%
weekly meeting grades: 20%
final project: 60%

Your project is complete when all the agreed-on features are present -- good grade for good project, bad grade (ack) for bad but complete project, but good or bad, projects must be complete.

For the standard grading scale, look here.

Equipment:

A cluster of Linux machines, and the Windows boxes.

Policies:

Assignments are due at the time of the meeting.
Attendance: since we have one meeting a week, missing a meeting is a major deal (besides being a pain for me). YOU ARE ONLY ALLOWED 2 MISSED MEETINGS. If you miss 3, you'll have to take the class again. However, if you email me in advance that you can't make a meeting, we can reschedule it.

How to do well:

Keep your schedule up to date, and adhere to it.
Don't miss any meetings
Schedule time each week to work on the project
Do something you love!

Center for Accessibility and Disability Resources

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Contact Information

Julia Timmons, Director of the Center for Accessibility and Disability Resources
1501 Lakeside Drive
Lynchburg, VA 24501

Email: timmons.j@lynchburg.edu
Phone: 434-544-8339
Fax: 434-544-8808

Meg Dillon, Assistant Director of the Center for Accessibility and Disability Resources

1501 Lakeside Drive
Lynchburg, VA 24501
Email: dillon_ma@lynchburg.edu
Phone: 434-544-8709
Fax: 434-544-8808