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My name is Eric Ianni, and I have the pleasure of being the instructor for this course. I will do my best to provide you an informative and encouraging course with a great learning experience. If you have any suggestions on this course, you're welcome to contact me at any time.

This course allows you to create a software project of your choice. Material presented guides you in selecting a project, then provides you with mechanisms for reporting on your project throughout the term until the final submission is due.

Topics

We will be covering three topics geared towards helping you select, plan for, execute, and then report on your project:

Project Selection and Planning
Periodic Reporting
Final Reporting and Demonstration

Tools

The tools you will use will be entirely dependent on your chosen project.

Course Structure

Considering this is an independent study course, you will be spending most of your time pursuing your project. That said, there are some crucial benchmarks you will need to cover along with weekly reports during the development of your project.

Project Plan

During the first module, you will be asked to examine your personal motivations and to produce a Project Plan.

Weekly Reports

During the development of your project, you will need to report your progress weekly to the instructor.

Final Report

At the end of the course, you will not only have produced a project, but you will write a report about the project and the experience of development.

Office Hours:

There will be no regularly scheduled office hours for this course because each student will have unique-to-them questions. Please refer to Start Here - Instructor Information & Communication Policy for how to schedule a meeting if you feel it is required.

My Expectations

Your measure of success will largely be defined by you in your Project Plan (with my agreement). Therefore, it is important that you stay on top of your work so you can meet the expectations laid out in the plan. If things start going south, it is my expectation that you will reach out immediately and not wait until it is too late to make adjustments.

Please go over all the content in the Start Here module. Read the course syllabus carefully. It is also a good idea to look ahead to what you will be expected to produce at the end of the term so you can make informed decisions to maximize your chances of success.

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