Due: See Assignment Schedule

This is a Team assignment.

Team Project Proposal

Your main task this semester is to complete a semester-long Text Based Adventure Game (TBAG) team software project. Your task in this assignment is to form your team and decide what the theme of your project will be.

Here is a description of this project TBAG.

If you and your team want to tackle a project not on that list, you and your team will have to provide me with extremely 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 4, but not more than 5 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 Intellij, 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 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 your team’s shared Google folder named “CS320-Sp26-Team-www-xxx-yyy-zzz”, replacing “www-xxx-yyy-zzz” with the YCP user names of the members of your project team, in alphabetical order. Share the folder and contents with your team and with me.

This folder will be your means for creating and sharing all non-programming-related team assignments.

Then create your Team Project Proposal in that folder, using Google Docs. Name your Project Proposal document assignT01-www-xxx-yyy-zzz, again substituting the YCP user names of your project team members, in alphabetical order.

After you have finished your proposal, save it as a PDF file and then submit the PDF version to Marmoset under the “AssignT01: 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 doc 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!