Deadlines, August 12^th and August 22^nd

This is important new information. Your first major project submission, with documentation and working code on the CCS Unix systems is due by midnight, Monday, August 12th. Credit for this first project submission is 15% of your total course grade.

The final version of the project is due by midnight, Thursday, August 22nd, the last day of classes for this Summer Quarter. Credit for the final version will be 25% of your total course grade. That and the 15% for the first major report will total 40%, which is the portion of the total course credit apportioned for your project.

We will do our best to get some feedback to you rapidly after the August 12th due date, in case you need to do some final tweaks. If you are able to get a preliminary version to us before the 12th, all the better, because we can get feedback to you sooner.

What to do and hand in

• Place your source and compiled code on the College's Unix system and tell us path to your files. Mail the location to Ms. Zhang xin@ccs.neu.edu including your project title and both partner's names. Be sure to make your email subject line clear and informative. Check that your code is accessible by having one project partner try to access the code in the other partner's directory location.
• Have a brief plain text Readme file in your code directory that explains four things:
  • What we should run.
  • How to interact with your code, if that's the way it is set up.
  • What we should expect to see as the output/display/results of running your code.
  • What computer graphics principles and techniques are demonstrated by your system. (The remainder of your explanation, and a discussion of your design and implementation will be in the Project Report described below.)
• Turn in a reasonably complete first draft of your Project Report. You may post this report on your site, but you must turn in a hardcopy no later than the beginning of class, Wednesday, August 14th. Since this is just your first draft, it would be far better for you and for us if you could hand in this draft at the beginning of class on Monday the 12th. The report should contain the following, at a minimum:
  • What graphics principles and techniques are being used and/or demonstrated by your project.
  • How the principles and techniques were implemented in your code.
  • What parts were difficult or not so difficult and which were rewarding or not. Please be specific.
  • What you feel you accomplished and what you would have still liked to do.
  • Diagrams or screen shots that demonstrate the principles and/or show your system's output. Diagrams are a required part of your report, whether they show data structures or output to the screen. After all, this is course about graphics. Your diagrams can be hand-drawn, on separate pages if you like, to make your report easier to prepare. Just be neat and include some text with your diagrams that explain what they're about.
  • A list of web pages, books (which sections in particular) or articles you used to help you build your system. Do this in the standard way (there are many sources of information about how to do this, e.g., this one).
• The electronic version of your Project Report can be in any format you like, but you are still required to hand in a hardcopy that we can read and mark up. For example, your Report could be created as a web page or set of web pages at some URL we can access.

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