Alexandria ACM SC | Graduation Projects: Choice& Work

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Graduation Projects Answers

Mohammad Abdelaziz Gowayyed

June 2013


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Agenda

Introduction

Your Idea

Your Supervisor Your Team

Your Plan

Your Final Discussion What is the Answer?


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Typical GP story Before first semester

Finish 5%

During first semester

Finish 10% and intent to do a lot in mid-year vacation During the mid-year vacation

Finish 5% and intent to do a lot in second semester

During second semester

Finish 10% and intent to do a lot after the finals After the finals

Finish 10% and you will be busy writing!

At the presentation day: did only 40% of your

dreams!


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Why to make a graduation project? Required for graduation.

Demonstrate/show/prove the knowledge that

you gained during undergraduate studies.

In our case, it is computer engineering.

What is engineering?


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Why to make a good graduation

project? Exploit the opportunity

CV

Interviews


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Your Supervisor Ask former students about each supervisor.

Two kinds of supervisors.

He will give you part of the grade.


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Idea Why? and How? is more important that

What?

What is the motivation?

Survey

Do not reinvent the wheel!

Modular ideas are better, what if you couldnot finish all what you want to do?

Search for ideas, again and again!


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Idea Building a System

Web application

Robot

Game Security

Do research

Networks

Data management

Pattern Recognition

Machine Learning and Computer Vision


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Your Team The popular dilemma: build the team first or get

the idea first?

At least, make sure to agree on the field.

Do not assume. Assign one day per week for the project whatever

busy you are.

Use an online tool for managing tasks: e.g. Asana Communicate more and more and disseminate

information

Each member should has his own contribution


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Your Plan You do not need to plan for your project, if

you dont want to do your best in it.

Plan even if you think you will not stick to the

plan. Then, do your best to stick to it.

Let the whole team contribute in the plan.

Brainstorming.


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For each iteration If each member in the team allocated one

complete day for each week, we are talking about

16 hours/iteration.

5 members = 16 * 5 = 80 hours!

Define the iteration goals.

Define concrete deliverables wherever possible.

Extract tasks and assign them to members.

Grade yourself after each iteration.

You will need a secretary in the team!


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Extracting tasks Administration

Create database with the following schema:

User: {first_name, last_name, email .}

Role: {role_name}

Create Sign Up page with user fields

Create Sign In page with fields: {username andpassword}

Create methods to help in authentication: e.g.is_admin(user): returns whether the user is adminor not


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Im the fastestrunner.

Thats not true.The fastest runner is

me!


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The moral of the story is thatslow andsteady wins the race.

This is the version of the story that we've allgrown up with.


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Sure!

Can we have another race? This

time well go through a different

route.


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What

should I

do?


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The moral of the story?

Everyone has his own strong point which he should

exploit.

Working to your strengths will not only get you

noticed, but will also create opportunities for growth

and advancement.


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Hi, buddy. How

about doing our last

race again?

Great! I think we could

do it much better, if wetwo help each other.

Hi, buddy. How

about doing our last

race again?


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