CSC 322.01, Class 03: Project descriptions

Overview

• Preliminaries
  • Notes and news
  • Upcoming work
  • Questions
• Project options
• Select projects
• Getting up and running on Rails

News / Etc.

• I’m still working on getting the site up and running.
• Friday PSA

Upcoming work

• For Monday, please read http://www.strengthsquest.com/file/BriefThemeDescriptions.pdf and pick five characteristics you think best describe you.

Good things to do

• Dance activities this weekend.
• Moderation.
• Some Math LaTeX thingy in Math/Stats commons Sunday at 3pm
• CS Table Tuesday: Planning.
• CS Extras Thursday: LaTeX.

Questions

Syllabus

Project options

Mayflower online community

• Client: Mayflower, Retirement community in town (with too many former faculty)
• Goal: Something like a walled-garden facebook.
• Longer-term goal: Much more.
• Why: Better community to elder people in town.
• People: Kent McClelland (Prof. Emeritus of Soc), Kathryn McClelland (former MathLAB director), and others
• Interesting: Security

Volunteer board

• Client: Greater Powesheik Community Foundation, “back office” for most of the nonprofits in town.
• Goal: Match people who want to volunteer with volunteer opportunities.
• Why: Make our community better.
• People: Nicole Brua-Behrens
• Interesting: Amount and variety of data.

PALS

• Client: PALS, animal shelter
• Goal: ???
• Why: Because they need help
• People: ???
• Interesting: Who knows?

SpamR

• Client: CS students
• Goal: Automatically log csstudents email so that people don’t have to get/keep it in their mailboxes.
• Why: Help keep mailboxen clean
• People: Sam
• Interesting: Processing mail

Conference planning support

• Client: GHS + others
• Goal: Back-end software to support planning of annual conference on tech opportunities to encourage Iowa students to pursue jobs in tech.
• Why: Outreach!
• People: Ursula (owner of Noyce visiting dog) + Kevin Seney (principal high school principal)
• Interesting: Ursula is fun

CS Curricular Planning

• Client: Sam
• Goal: Figure out what students will be taking, communicate with students what we hope to offer.
• Why: Argue for more faculty.
• People: Sam, SEPC
• Interesting: Dealing with dynamic state of system

CSprofessor Job Board

• Client: CS community
• Goal: Easy to find academic jobs
• Why: Advertising for the department; help convince smart people to take jobs that pay less than half of what they are worth
• People: PM
• Interesting: (Parsing postings)

Choices, reviews

• Mayflower community
• Volunteer board
• Unknown PALs
• SpamR
• Conference support
• CS Curricular Planning
• CS admin job board

Your goal

    Your name
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    1. Unknown PALs

    2. Mayflower

    3. Volunteer board

    4. Conference support

    5. Drop the course