Assignment 1 – Project
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Objective:
Effective time management are essential for business and for study. It can be used as a tool
to support software development, such as managing team meetings. In this assignment,
you’re responsible for the development of a time management tool. You’ll practice
engineering workflow and tool chains for software development.
In this assignment, you’ll develop a countdown timer designed for team meetings. An
example of the countdown timer can be found at:
https://www.timeblocks.co/
The basic feature of your countdown timer should include:
1. Allowing users to specify sub-tasks and time.
2. Allowing users to export and import sub-task and time configuration as a CSV file.
3. Allow users to pause / advance / extend the current sub-task.
4. Every member is required to develop one feature to enhance countdown timer, which
can be used to support online meetings.
The development of feature 1 should remain in the master branch. Other features should be
firstly developed in a separate branch, and then merge to the master once the feature
development is complete.
Upon completing each of the three feature listed above (Note: you can proceed with any
order), you should create tags v1.0, v2.0, and v3.0 for each completed feature.
In this assignment, you can discuss with your group can choose to program in either Java,
Javascript, or Python. As this course focuses on tools for software development, please select
the programming language that you’re already familiar with. For simple countdown timer in
these programming languages, you can take a look at the following links to get start with
(note: these samples are not the solution, just to give you some ideas to start with):
Python https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZkQFab3NnA
Java https://examples.javacodegeeks.com/desktop-java/awt/event/asimple-timer-example/
Javascript https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_js_countdown.asp
As a reminder, this course focuses on tools for software development, and programming skills
are the pre-requisite of this course. You should choose a programming language that you’re
familiar with, or you are confidence that you can be self-taught or learn with your group to
complete the assignment.
Deliverables
Checkpoint (11:59pm on Thursday, 09 Nov, 2023)
You’re required to:
• Create a private team repository on gitlab.com;
• Each team members should create one account to access the project repository (you will
lose mark if you have more than one account).
• In the README.md file, write your real name, username, and student ID. Commit the
change into the repository. (i.e. each member will make a commit for the checkpoint).
• Add "inft2063tutor" as a developer of your assignment's gitlab repository, to allow our
tutor to access and mark your assignment.
• Use git clone to download the entire code repository. ZIP the repository and submit to the
checkpoint submission link on the course website. Every member needs to submit.
Final submission (11:59pm on Sunday, 31 Dec, 2023)
You should submit three files: code repository (in ZIP), individual report (in Word or PDF),
and individual presentation (in PPT or MP4 or AVI):
• Code repository
This is the group work, but individual contributions will be recorded with version control:
o Every member is required to submit a ZIP file (and in general they should be the
same for the group).
o You should prepare a user manual written in markdown, with filename
manual.md, saved under the doc/ sub-directory in your code repository.
o You should commit your changes and push to your work to your group repository
on gitlab on a regular basis. For submission, you should clone the entire repository
and save it as a ZIP file and submit to the course website. (Note: no mark will be
given for other compression formats, such as RAR or 7z)
• Individual report
Every member is required to submit an individual report. No mark will be given for a joint
report. A report up-to 20 pages in length, including the following sections:
1. Project overview: Give a brief summary of your project.
2. Individual contribution: Provide details of your contribution in Features 1,
2, and 3 in this project. Provide details of the new feature you’re
responsible for. Describe how you collaborate with other group members.
3. Software workflow process and software development environment:
Describe the workflow process you practice in this assignment. Provide
details of the tools you used in this project: for instance, addons that has
been configured if you use an IDE, or scripts used if you use command line
interface. Explain the benefit of your development environment.
Other guidelines
• Penalties apply for reports exceeding the maximum page limit.
• There is no minimum length. Lengthy report may not necessarily better.
• You can optionally include appendix which does not count towards the page limits.
• Please get in touch with your group members early and start your project early.
• Presentation
• Everyone is required to present their individual task. Up to 3 minutes per person.
• Submit voice-record slide presentation in an mp4 video file. You can use Microsoft
PowerPoint to record voice and export -> create a video. You can also use software
other than Microsoft PowerPoint.
• This is an Individual Presentation. You should include the common introduction of
your group project in your 3 minutes, to demonstrate your understanding of the
overall project, instead of only one group member present a project overview. (i.e.
you can repeat the project introduction slides among the group members.)
• The presentation should be individual (i.e. multiple 3-minute presentations). No mark
will be given for a joint presentation.
Marking Scheme
Assessment Components Weight
Checkpoint (every student needs to submit) 5%
Software design and implementation 20%
Version control 20%
Bug tracking 10%
User manual 10%
Individual presentation
10%
Individual report 25%