CMSC 220 Lab 9

Lab Assignment 9

CSC 220

Due: Before 11 am on Tuesday, May3, 2005. Upload a completed lab report to SOCS to your CSC220 Dropbox..

PLEASE NOTE: Hours for the Holman Hall labs for Finals Week may be severely restricted. If you need access to the labs beyond posted hours, PLEASE email or see me. I do not guarantee entry, but I will do my best to provide supervised access.

Final note: I read mail sporadically. Do not rely on email for "quick" turn around. Plan ahead.

Lab 9: Implementation of GUI Design

Attempt to implement at least a significant portion of your GUI design. You may or may not get to this step. The requirement for "Lab 9" is that you demonstrate what you have running. You may do this either during lab time in the last week of classes, or by appointment during that week or finals week.

Be prepared to provide Dr. Martinovic with a copy of all source code. He will copy it to a directory on his Unix account.

Summary Document

You are expected to submit a final report on your lab. Much of it should consist of reorganizing your submissions for labs 7, 8 and 9. The organization of the final report is as follows:

a cover page identifying the team members, include a reference to where the code can be executed in the Unix environment.
a table of contents
Section 1: Initial Design
This should summarize what the project was, and describe your inititial goals for the project.
Section 2: GUI Layout
This should present your GUI layout (lab 8) including identifying all input and output components.
Section 3: Summary of the implementation.
Describe what the final product actually does, clearly identify the following
- what you actually implemented from the design in section 1
- what you decided not to try to implement because of complexity or time constraints
- what you tried to implement, but couldn't
Section 4: Analysis and Reflection:
Answer the following questions in a paragraph each. Clearly mark each subsection
1. Describe whether the software development method helped you solve this problem, did you start writing code immediately, or did you do a lot of design work first. Reflect on how successful your approach was
2. Describe how you designed your GUI interface. Did you integrate it into your design, or did you implement your program as a text version first. Reflect on how successful your approach was.
3. Describe how you worked as a team. Give details on how often you met, how you divided the work (if you did) and who did what.
4. Reflect on the use of objects to complete the project. Do you think that object-oriented coding made it easier or more difficult to complete the project.
Include a list of all code as an appendix. At the front of the appendix, list all classes you defined. Show any class extensions by stating what class your classes extend. Optional: include a diagram of how the classes interact.