diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 0fbd90b..5f908ed 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,98 +1,3 @@ -# cs4241-FinalProject +# Card Game Playfield -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, design, and implement for your project. - -## Example Projects - -The following list describes a few examples of what I would consider to be good projects. -Excellent projects serve someone/some group: 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. - - Server-side components for data visualization could include state-tracking, computation (e.g. machine learning), and many other data-related possibilities. -- 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, as 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. - -The above are just a few possibilities. -Create something useful for a cause or hobby you care about; something that will help you grow as a student. - -Also see our [hall of fame](https://cs4241-17a.github.io/fame/), with notable projects from prior offerings of the course. - -## Logistics - -### Team size -Students are encouraged to work in teams of 4-5 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 four students to produce a project with more features, I expect a single person project to exhibit all of the required facets described above. - -### Deliverables - -__Proposal:__ -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. -This file must be named proposal.md so we can find it. -Submit a PR to turn it in. - -__Evaluation:__ -Conduct an evaluation of your website, with 5 people. -Sessions should be a minimum of 10 minutes per person. -Evaluations should be semi-structured: users must perform tasks on their own without your help (i.e., observe only!). -Allow participants to "think-aloud" to gain insights into what's going on in their mind as they use your site. -After you've ran participants, analyze and report on your results in evaluation.md. -A good evaluation will uncover both usability challenges as well as design challenges. -Submit along with your final code to turn it in. - -There are no other scheduled checkpoints for your project. -You must be done in time to present before the final project demo day. - -#### Turning in Your Outline / Project - -Submit a second PR on the final project repo to turn in your outline and code. - -Deploy your outline, in the form of a webpage, to Heroku or some other service. -Ensure that your project has the proper naming scheme (fp-yourGitHubUsername) so we can find it. -Folks on the same team do not need to post the same webpage, but must instead clearly state who is on the team in their proposal. -(Staff will use the proposal to build the grading sheet.) - -## Final Presentation - -Presentations will occur during the final week of class. - -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 demo to staff as part of your grade. - -Naming and URL Scheme ---- - -You must use a consistent naming scheme for all projects in this course. -If we can't find it, we can't grade it. - -By default Heroku assigns your application a random name. -To change it, follow [this guide](https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/renaming-apps). - -Only one team member needs to deploy the project on heroku. - -The name scheme should be `fp-yourGitHubUsername`. - -## FAQs - -- **Can I open-source my project?** You may open source your project after the class ends. -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. +Coming soon...