Due Thursday, January 20
Overview and Purpose
Welcome to Senior Capstone Design! Throughout the semester you will be writing short blogs in order to keep track of assigned readings and your project's development. Maintaining a blog will help you to stay organized and to continually analyze your work. Using a digital artifact instead of a paper-based journal affords communication with other students and a quicker recall of past assignments/updates. You will set up a blog for the course and write a short introductory entry.
Format
Before you can begin writing your blog posts for the class, you obviously need to have a blog set up. While there are several blogging services available, it's recommended that everyone uses the Blogger service for consistency. If you are new to using Blogger, then follow the steps below to set up your own blog on Blogger.
1. Go to the Blogger site and log in with your Google account credentials. If you don't have a Google account, you have bigger problems to deal with.
2. On the home page, locate and click on the link labeled Create a New Blog.
3. Follow and complete the instructions to create your blog specifically for use in this course.
4. Locate the Profile widget on your blog and post your personal details. At the minimum, include your real name so that students know whom are the owners of their respective blogs.
Note: If you can't find the Profile widget, first click on the Design tab, then click on the Page Elements sub-tab, and finally select the Profile widget.
Email a link to your blog to Chris [chris_aikens (at) neo.tamu.edu].
Now that you have your blog set up, you will need to create an Introductory entry containing answers to the following questions. This entry is designed to help other students understand your interests and directions, which may in turn help decide teams for the semester.
- What is your name?
- What will you be doing after graduation?
- List your computing interests (HCI, information retrieval, databases, etc.).
- List your computing strengths (a language, focus area, etc.).
- What was your favorite computer science project that you worked on and why?
- What was your least favorite and why?
- What do you see as the top tech. development of the last 5 years and why?
- Provide some insight into your management/coding styles. This could include your preferred coding method, how you use line breaks, what time of day you work best, or any other relevant programming-related facts.
- Make sure to include a picture of yourself.