Today we talked about the report:
- how and what I need to reference
- what I should put in my design / analysis parts
- how and where to use UML diagrams.
At the moment I have finished to write the first draft of the abstract, introduction, analysis and design parts.
I am now going to work on the modifications we talked about during the meeting.
I also need to work on finding some more references.
I’ll then start working on the implementation part.
This week we talked again about the report, I’ve asked my supervisor to check my table of contents to be sure I was covering everything.
The big sections of my report will be :
- Introduction
- Analysis
-Design
-Implementation
- Feedback/ Testing
- Conclusion
We also discussed what each section should content.
I have now finished to write the abstract and introduction, so now I’m now going to start writing the Analysis and Design parts.
Today I showed my supervisor the demonstration applications I used last week during my presentation at Schlumberger.
I also told him I had decided to stop coding on the project. Here are the main reasons :
- The final year project handbook says students are supposed to work 20 hours per week on their final year project (and 10hours per week for each of the other modules), over a period of 20 weeks. Which makes a total of 400 hours for the whole project. So far I’ve spent at least 800 hours on the project (report not included). Also I have four other modules, on which I should have worked 40hours per week but I didn’t.
- The marks : even if it was not my main objective until now, I need to remember that the objective of the year is to get a first class degree. And for that it makes much more sense to work on the other modules than on the final year project, for the simple reason that the implementation only represents 30% of the marks.
So from now on I will only work on the report and the other modules and won’t be changing the code any more.
My supervisor didn’t tell me if it was a good idea or not to stop the development, he just told me that I still had to keep a schedule for the remaining weeks.
Also, from now on we will only meet if needed (I won’t go every week as I used to).
Here is the schedule for next week : I’m going to start writing the abstract and the introduction parts of my report.
