Due: See Assignment Schedule

This is a Team assignment.

Team Project Proposal

Your main task this semester is to complete a semester-long team software project. Your task in this assignment is to form your team and decide what your project will be.

Select one of the projects from the list of Team Projects.

If you and your team want to tackle a project not on that list, you and your team will have to provide me with compelling evidence that your entire team is up to the task, as I (and the class tutors) will not be able to provide your team with as much guidance throughout the semester as you would get for one of the standard projects.

In a 3-4 page document, describe the following:

Who is on your team? You will be choosing your own teams. You must have at least 3, but not more than 4 team members. All team members must be from the same section of CS320

Briefly describe the system your team will create. Please note the following important requirements:

  1. The system must be a web application, meaning that the user interface must be web-based.
  2. The system must have a client-server architecture, i.e., a browser-based web front-end and remote server back-end.
  3. The system must store persistent data in a SQL database located on the server side.
  4. The system must be awesome when it is completed.

Be ambitious. The goal of this course is to learn how to design and build complex software. I do not expect that you will necessarily complete 100% of what you propose. In fact, I have only ever had one team “complete” a project, and it WAS awesome.

In your description of the system, include sketches of what the user interface will look like.

What language(s) and programming environment will you use? You will be using Java and Eclipse, with Java servlets and Java Server Pages (JSPs). It is likely that you will end up using client-side JavaScript (JS), but we will NOT be covering that topic in this course. JavaScript will provide a great opportunity for self-learning. I also strongly discourage attempting to implement a game (except for those included in the project suggestions), as previous history has shown that game development for this class has a low-rate (<5% chance) of success (creating an interesting, playable, graphical game).

I strongly recommend that you discuss your idea with me before you submit your proposal.

Examples:

Here are some examples of previous Team Project Proposal submissions:

Here is the template for your Team Project Proposal. Download the template document, modify it, as necessary, and follow the submission instructions below.

Submitting

Have one team member create a shared Google document for your team project proposal and name it “assign01-www-xxx-yyy-zzz”, replacing “www-xxx-yyy-zzz” with the YCP usernames of the members of your project team, in alphabetical order. Share your proposal document and contents with your team and with me.

After you have finished your proposal, save it as a PDF file and then submit the PDF version to Marmoset under the “Assign01: Team Project Proposal” project. Only one team member should submit the document.

Important: Only submissions in PDF form will be accepted. Do not submit a document in any other format, i.e., do NOT submit a Google or Word doc - save it in PDF form first, and submit the PDF version to Marmoset. Make sure to follow the specified naming conventions for your proposal document!

After you submit your team project proposal, I will create a shared Google folder for your team project and then share that folder with you and your team. The folder will be named “CS320-Sp24-Team-www-xxx-yyy-zzz” with your usernames substituted as above. That folder will then be your means of submission for all non-programming-related team assignments. After you have been granted access to that folder, please copy both versions of your Team Project Proposal (Google Doc and PDF) to that folder.