Projects Started
by Mike
I currently have 2 courses with term projects right now,
1) CS3715 – Network Computing with WEB Applications.
I love this course, its actually fun and I’m learning alot. My term project in this course is also cool, its called “HRT” or “Help Request tool”. Its basically a tool to help system administrators and lab assistants to monitor a lab. It allows clients(people using the computers in the lab) to request help from the sys admins and lab assistants, clients can visit a webpage and select a help option tailored to the particular lab they are in and request help in that area. The lab assistants and sys admins monitor the lab through a webpage that gives them a .svg(Scalable Vector Graphics) representation of the lab they are in, and when a client requests help, the request is displayed graphically indicating which computer in the lab help is being requested from and the type of help that is needed. It will have a bunch of other features as well like authentication against the LabNET system here at school and other things like user metrics, etc.
Im preally pumped about this project, and I’ve also got an all-star group to work with in Jason and Thomas, so I expect good things.
2) CS3716 – Software Methodology
This course I don’t love so much. The project assigned to both classes to work on, isn’t that exciting. heres the description.
We will implement a Camping Reservation System (CRS) for the Avalon. It is a computerized application that provides information on public and private campgrounds and allows the user to make a reservation. The user selects a number of nights, maximum number of visited campgrounds, maximal travel distance, requested facilities, etc. In response the system prepares a sample itinerary. After confirmation from the user the system will make the reservation.
Like I said, not very exciting, the course kind of makes me uneasy in the sense that in CS3715 we got to pick our groups, but in this course, we don’t get to pick, so I always get a little wary when my mark is dependant on people I don’t know. I know this is similar to what its like in life and working in industry, so I guess, Im just going to have to just make the best of it regardless of what group I’m in. We shall see, I can only do the best I can do and hopefully contribute to the group in a positive way.
Anyway, for those of you who are actually interested I will keep you up to date on this, maybe post some code snippits as I proceed, etc.
Comments
Two updates! Two!
Thats right, mikey is trying to be more diligent!
Hey Mike, how does it feel to be heckled by the cross country team? :evil
great broph! How did it feel to get the finger
Ask yer mudder
And you’d better not mod that last one down!!!
I’ve seen mike update twice…I’ve seen mike update TWICE!
Keep any/all the networking stuff for me. Looks like ill be doing it next term.
[...] Good news, the Help Request Toolkit is finally finished. Its been about a month an a half of hard work but it is done, and if I do say so myself, it is awesome. Its more of a proof of concept right now, but it works well and does everything we set out to get it accomplished. I will post some screens and such soon and some info about it in more detail soon. I think I’m gonna get some sub domain action going on so I can have dev.mikegrouchy.com and just put up some info about Ive been working on and have worked on. [...]