CSC 460 Senior Project
Syllabus, Spring, 2008

Dr. Gail Miles
Office  211 Mauney
Phone  7268
e-mail  milesg@lrc.edu

Overview
The primary focus of CSC 460 is to get your project up and running. The course will be set up in such a way that you will have fewer classes at the beginning of the semester when you are working harder on the project than at the end. 

Your performance will be determined by:
One exam  (10%)
Project ( Project Deliverables including the final product  40%)
Walkthroughs, Reviews, Demos 20% (5 of these)   -- I expect these to be professionally done
FINAL Comprehensive - 15%
Final Exam 15%

GRADING SCALE : A 94-100
B+ 90-93
B 86-89
B- 83-85
C+ 80-82
C 77-79
C- 74-76
F Below 74
NOTE: This is a different grading Scale!!!!!!!

TESTING: The exams will essay.
The final exam will be cumulative.

CONTACTING THE PROFESSOR:  All of you know by now that contacting me is best done by e-mail. That guarantees that we are not playing phone tag. I check my e-mail many times a day. There will be no excuses accepted concerning the inability to reach me. You are expected to use your L-R e-mail account!

MAKE-UPS OF EXAMS: Make-up exams are not ordinarily given. With exceptional circumstances (i.e. illness, college-related absences, or previous approval by the professor) exams may be made up if they are taken before the next class period after the test has been administered.

CLASS ATTENDANCE: You are expected to attend class. Attendance is taken. Since we often meet only one day a week, it is important that you not miss this day. I also expect you to be on time. Being late to class is a poor habit to get into.

The difference this semester is that we will meet on varying days throughout the semester. It is expected that all of you will be meeting regularly with your teams and working on your project. You should be maintaining a Project Notebook with meeting notes etc throughout the class I do not separately grade it, but it will be part of the final documentation submitted for the project 

The software project that you designed last term will be completed by each student as a member of the same team.

The software project is more important to this course than CSC 400. Because of its importance, the project accounts for 60% of the assessment (both project and the walkthroughs) and you must pass both the project and the exams to pass the subject.

You are expected to create this as a member of the same team that designed the project in CSC 400.  

There were a few problems in a couple teams where one person on the team was not performing as well as others on the team. This semester, I will grade this more carefully since this is the implementation phase. Therefore, a student could be a member of a team that gets an A in their project, but gets a C in their individual score.

The primary benchmarks for the project will be specific walkthrough stages.