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+# cs4241-16b-FinalProject
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+For your final project, you'll implement a course project that exhibits your mastery of the course materials. 
+This project gives you an opportunity to be creative and to pursue individual research and learning.
+
+## General description
+
+Your project should consist of a complete Web application. 
+The site must exhibit facets of the three main sections of the course material:
+
+- Static Web page content and design. You should have a project that is well-designed, easily navigable, and exhibits good human-computer interaction.
+- Dynamic behavior implemented with JavaScript and possibly other JavaScript librarires.
+- Server-side programming. Typically this will take the form of some sort of persistent data and possibly server-side computation.
+
+Additionally, you should incorporate features that you independently research to add to your project.
+
+## Example Projects
+
+The following list describes a few examples of what I would consider to be good projects. Excellent projects serve someone: define your users and stakeholders. 
+Don't just create a webapp with a pile of features.
+I encourage you to identify projects that will have impact.
+
+Here are some ideas:
+
+- Interactive data visualization: Find an interesting dataset, then visualize it using d3.js. See visualizations on the New York Times, 538, or [mbtaviz (wpi grads!)](https://mbtaviz.github.io/) for inspiration.
+- WPI Infrastructure: There are a lot of things that could be done better on the WPI school website. Find something you care about and make a prototype that shows how it could be better. Avoid course schedulers or course survey browsers -- these already exist!
+- (bonus) Infrastructure ideas: Course sizes are growing, making it more difficult than ever for professors to learn about all the students in their course. Create a webapp that provides a better interface to the students in the course (search, filtering, with profiles almost like Facebook) using Banner data. Alternately, create a flash-card game that uses student data (pictures, names) to help professors get to know their students.
+
+## Logistics
+
+### Team size
+Students are encouraged to work in teams of 2 or 3 students for the project. 
+This will allow you to build a good project without expending an excessive amount of effort. While I would expect a team of three students to produce a project with more features, I expect a single person project to exhibit all of the required facets described above.
+
+### Schedule / Deliverables
+
+- November 21: You should provide an outline of your project and the names of the team members. The outline should have enough detail so that I can determine if it meets the minimum expectations, or if it goes too far to be reasonable by the deadline.
+
+There are no other scheduled checkpoints for your project. 
+You must be done in time to present it to me before the term ends. 
+
+#### Turning in Your Outline / Project
+
+Deploy your outline, in the form of a webpage, to Heroku.
+Ensure that your project has the proper naming scheme (cs4241-fp-yourGitHubUsername) so we can find it.
+Folks on the same team should post the same webpage.
+
+## Final Presentation
+
+Presentations will occur during the final week of class.
+We'll also set up a submission site so we can get your repo links.
+
+As for the presentations, we will take over a different room on WPI's campus, with tables.
+You'll set up and demo to folks who stop by.
+You'll also demo to me and other graders.
+
+This is a fun event.
+Since there was no textbook for the course, I'm going to ask or contributions so we can buy tasty food/drink.
+Look for a Square Cash link from me soon.
+
+## FAQs
+
+- **Can I open-source my project?** You may open source your project from the beginning. I encourage it. While other course code should be kept hidden, this is a case where others can and should learn and draw inspiration from everyone else.
+- **Can I use XYZ framework?** You can use any web-based frameworks or tools available.