CSE 260 Final project requirements

Presentations

You'll have 20 minutes to give your presentation, including questions. I suggest you have between 8 to 10 slides. Please bring a copy of the slides to class so I can use it to grade your presentation.

Your presentation should address the following issues.

  1. What is the goal of your project? If you are working with an application, describe the important steps of the underlying algorithm.
  2. What was your approach, e.g. experimental method?
  3. What are your findings and their interpretation? Include an analysis of performance.
  4. Explain any goals that were modified.
  5. What are your conclusions?

Final Report

A hard copy of the final report is due by 5PM on Friday, December 4th. Please put it in my mailbox on the 2nd floor or slip under my door in an envelope. As in prior assignments, please make me an electronic copy (instructions below).

Your writeup should describe the application at a level appropriate for a technical non-expert audience. Thus you will likely need to provide some background knowledge to allow the audience to understand the application.

The structure of your writeup should generally follow that of the presentation. However, be sure to include the following

  • Discuss what you learned from the project.
  • If you are working in a team, include an updated self-evaluation discussing the division of labor and other aspects of how you worked together as a team (A copy of the form is available in here)
  • Discuss any milestones you could not meet, along with an explanation.

    • The grade for your project will be based primarily on its thoroughness but also on presentation. Negative results are perfectly acceptable. Such results will be rewarded just as positive results are, that is, so long as all points listed above are adequately addressed.

    Draw your plots carefully and include any plotted data in tabular form in an Appendix. Don't include any source listings in your hard copy writeup, but do provide pseudocode as necessary. (Your electronic turnin will contain all the source code).

    The electronic submission should be a compressed archive. e.g. .tgz .zip.

    When extracted, the compressed archive should produce a directory of the form <LASTNAME>_<INITIALS>, i.e. Baden_SB.tgz. Be sure to remove .o files and executables before creating the tar ball. At the top level of your directory there should be a file listing all the parts of your electronic submission. Ideally this should be a file with clickable links, e.g. index.html, README.doc, etc., but an ordinary ASCII file README.txt will do.

    Provide various subdirectories as follows

    src/ contains all source code along with a makefile, so that I can build the software.
    src may have multiple subdirectories as needed.
    data/ Any tabular data, experimental output
    plots/ Any separate plot files

    If you need other directories be sure to explain them in the navigation file. Please stick to this format, as I'll ask you to resend if I'm having difficulties.

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    		 edu   [Wed Sep 23 19:06:15 PDT 2009]