Specifications for Final Presentation Package
CS 496: Senior Seminar II, Spring 2010

Rational

• To gain some semi-public recognition of the work you've done.
• To convey a general sense of your project to the seminar.
• To practice presenting your own work to a group of your peers.

Requirements

1. Presentation using PowerPoint (or similar).
2. 30 minutes maximum (including at least 5 minutes for questions).
3. The general form of a presentation is
   1. Intro to the area
   2. Specifics of your project
   3. 1 or two central algorithms
   4. Demo
   5. Conclusion
   6. Questions

Process

1. Complete your project
2. Construct a project binder including
   1. A clean copy of your research paper.
   2. A users manual (with the essential instructions if someone were going to run your program in your absence). Length 1-3 pages.
   3. A programmers guide (with the essential instructions if someone were going to modify your program in your absence). Length 1-10 pages.
   4. A copy of your presentation slides
   5. A post-mortem addressing what you learned/gained from doing the project, what you would do differently if you were going to repeat the experience, and how you would extend it if you had another month to work on it. Length 1-2 pages.
3. On a CD/DVD:
   1. A copy of everything that is included in your project binder
   2. All the source code, and instructions for building it (in a file named README).
   3. Javadoc for your code
4. 24 hours (or more) before your presentation
   1. Demo your working project; the program must work when I test it -- it is highly recommended that you allow me to test it some days early so that you can fix whatever glitches we run into.
   2. Hand in your project binder and CD/DVD.