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Weekly progress and questions
This is where you record your progress and ask questions. Make sure you update this every week. The deadline is every Friday evening. However, if you sometimes slip a little into the weekend (so long as you don't do it too often) we won't be too hard on your marks.
Please remember that we make use of this progress section to give you your project mark. Your mark will suffer if you don't complete this section.
Semester 1 Week 1
Steven
- Week 1 work:
- First meeting with Patrick and Derek
- Introduced to Honours Project wiki page
- Watched the 2010 project video
- Watched the ABC documentary of the Somerton Man Case
- Began brief review of 2009/2010 documentation
- Patrick and I attended a Literature Search Training Session with Kay Leverett in the Barr Smith Library
- Included a tutorial on how to use the engineering databases – very helpful.
- Goals for week 2:
- Review previous years work in much greater detail
- Clearly define the project scope in accordance with Derek’s suggestions in meeting
- Generate a corresponding work breakdown structure
- Summarise individual tasks and associated deliverables
- Assist Patrick in preparing the Proposal Seminar ready for presenting in week 3.
Patrick
- Work Done this Week
- Initial meeting with Steven and Derek
- Had a brief read of 2009/10 Final Reports
- Watched ABC Documentary of the Somerton Man case
- Watched the 2010 group's YouTube video.
- Goals for Next Week
- Detailed examination of Previous Years' work
- Begin preparation of Proposal Seminar - to be presented in week 3.
- Identify the Tasks and Paths of the project
- Create Work Breakdown Structure
- Divide up tasks between team members and assign deliverables to tasks
Semester 1 Week 2
Steven
- Week 2 work:
- Attended meeting with Patrick and David Knight from the CS School
- Discussed Web Crawler/Pattern Matcher implementation options and difficulties
- Provided with additional resources for internet programming
- Attended Occupational Health and Safety Lecture with Braden Phillips and Stephen Guest
- Clarified requirements for project risk assessment and OH&S risk assessment for progress reports
- Patrick and I planned the project approach
- Established project work breakdown structure and proposed schedule
- Analysed the Final Reports of the 2009 and 2010 projects, attention towards;
- Understanding their procedures and results
- Develop ideas for improvement or extension
- Started work on Proposal Seminar
- Attended meeting with Patrick and David Knight from the CS School
- Goals for week 3:
- Prepare a gantt chart to represent proposed project schedule
- Complete and present Proposal Seminar on Friday 18/03/11
Patrick
- Work Done this Week
- Meeting with David Knight from the CS School
- Discussed Web Crawler/Pattern Matcher implementation options and difficulties
- Detailed analysis of 2009/10 Final Reports - Purpose to:
- Summarise the main findings
- Identify any areas missed in previous years.
- Drew up Work Breakdown Structure and planned project approach
- Started work on the Proposal Seminar.... Due to be presented next week
- Meeting with David Knight from the CS School
- Goals for Next Week
- Complete and PRESENT Proposal Seminar
- Begin work on verifying previous years' results
Semester 1 Week 3
Steven
- Week 3 work:
- Work this week was devoted to the Proposal Seminar
- Prepared gantt chart representing project schedule
- Attended meeting with Patrick and Derek
- Main focus on preparing Proposal Seminar
- Completed and presented Proposal Seminar with Patrick – only one attendee, Derek
- Goals for week 4:
- Establish software development environment on my laptop.
- Begin review of 2009 and 2010 software development
- Begin work on the Stage 1 Progress Report
Patrick
- Work Done this Week
- Spent the majority of the week working on the Proposal Seminar
- Had a meeting with Derek regarding Proposal Seminar
- Downloaded and installed JDK and Java Eclipse on Laptop as a working/development environment for project work
- Presented our Proposal Seminar! ... to one person, Derek. They don't know what they missed!
- Goals for Next Week
- More work on Verifying previous results.
- Begin code for text parser - the core of the pattern matcher
- Start work on the Stage 1 Progress Report... does documentation ever end?
Semester 1 Week 4
Steven
- Week 4 work:
- Began work on the Stage 1 Progress Report – due Friday Week 5
- Established a SVN repository for the project
- For use by Patrick and I as a code exchange point
- Under Linux installed Java IDE for project use and establish a project working environment
- Brief review of 2010 “web crawler” code
- Goals for week 5:
- Requirements for another course will restrict my available time in Week 5
- Complete Stage 1 Progress Report including integration onto wiki page
- Continue with previous project software investigation if time permits
Patrick
- Work Done this Week
- Began preparation of the Stage 1 Prog Report, due end of next week
- Created simple text parser to work from.
- Current ability:
- removes punctuation
- converts all letters to lowercase.
- Successfully tested on a Rubaiyat text file!
- Current ability:
- Goals for Next Week
- Complete Stage 1 Progress Report and Submit/Put on wiki
- Continue with text parser work
Semester 1 Week 5
Steven
- Week 5 work:
- Limited availability this week due to requirements for another course
- Worked heavily focused on the Stage 1 Progress Report
- Integrated contributions from Patrick and myself and submitted to MyUni
- Goals for week 6:
- Complete Stage 1 Progress Report
- Integrate Stage 1 Progress Report onto the wiki page
- Technical work:
- Begin formulation of cipher scheme testing that will extend on results from 2009 and 2010
- Begin exploration of additional cipher schemes that can be tested
- Summarise methodology for testing validity
Patrick
- Work Done this Week
- Lots of work on Stage 1 Progress Report
- Submitted a semi complete copy to MyUni
- Drew up design plans for pattern matcher and web crawler, and their integration
- Goals for Next Week
- Finish Stage 1 Progress Report
- Post up proper Stage 1 Progress Report onto the Wiki
- Spotted a gap in Documentation - next one not due til week 12! Time for some proper work.
- Look into statistically analysing some results gathered last year.
- Continue work on text parser, start adding pattern matching features.
Semester 1 Week 6
Steven
- Week 6 work:
- Completed and integrated the Stage 1 Progress Report to the project wiki page. See the link Patrick has provided below.
- Learnt valuable wiki syntax and semantics
- Formulated cipher scheme tests that will extend the results from 2009 and 2010
- Identified possible additions to the cipher “cross-off list”
- Completed and integrated the Stage 1 Progress Report to the project wiki page. See the link Patrick has provided below.
- Goals for week 7:
- Meet with Derek and Patrick and plan availability and work for the mid-semester break
- Begin implementation and testing of cipher schemes that will extend the results from 2009 and 2010
- In collaboration with Patrick, begin implementation and testing additional cipher schemes for use in the “cross-off” list
- Get a good result on my Engineering Management test.
Patrick
- Work Done this Week
- Stage 1 Progress Report, Stage 1 Progress Report and more Stage 1 Progress Report. The completed report has been formatted for the Wiki site and is now available here.
- Developed a plan to analyse the pattern matching results gathered in 2010. Unfortunately it relies on a working pattern matcher to gather more data, which leads to:
- Further development of pattern matching software. An Initialise function has been added and pattern matching features are currently being designed.
- Goals for Next Week
- Continue work on text parser/pattern matcher
- Start testing Ciphers on the Cipher Cross-Off list
- Set up a plan with Steven/Derek as to what we plan to achieve over the mid-semester break
- Get a good result in my Financial Institutions Management test.
Semester 1 Week 7
Steven
- Week 7 work:
- Attended a meeting with Derek and Patrick and summarised the work completed to date and intentions for the mid semester break
- Patrick and I finalised use of the Cipher Cross-Off List as the means for presenting and centralising results of continued 2009 project cipher scheme testing. Specific page to be added to wiki by Patrick.
- Investigated one cipher scheme from the “Cipher Cross-Off list”. Results provide more thorough proof of conclusions from 2009
- Goals for “break”:
- Begin detailed research into web-crawler implementations – ensuring there is compatibility with Patrick’s pattern matcher software
- Examine at least one more cipher on the Cipher Cross-Off list – results will be added to the page created by Patrick
- Investigate possible additional university computer resources for use in developmental testing
Patrick
- Work Done this Week
- Worked on text parser some more, developed a version that is capable of analysing the structural statistics of the Rubaiyat.
- Used Text parser to gather statistics on the Rubaiyat. Results indicate that the code and the poems inside are NOT structurally related. See reports (to come) for further details.
- Set up the wiki Cipher Cross-off List!
- Had a meeting with Derek and Steven to go through our work done so far and to plan out work for the next period.
- Goals for Next Week
- Test one cipher identified on the Cipher Cross-Off list
- Further development of the Text Parser/Pattern Matcher
- Look into creating a closed web environment in which our Web Crawler can be safely tested.
- Enjoy my "holidays"
Semester 1 Mid-Semester Break
Steven
- Mid-semester break work:
- Detailed examination of code used in cipher scheme testing for 2009 project
- Completed testing of two more cipher schemes from the Cipher Cross-off List – results yet to be added to project wiki
- Investigated potential web crawler implementations – research documentation needs further compilation
- For the purposes of future testing contacted Braden Phillips and learnt how to apply for access to the university servers for additional computing power
- Goals for week 8:
- Add results of cipher scheme testing to the project wiki
- Test another cipher identified on the Cipher Cross-off list
- Further investigation of web crawler implementations. In addition, update supporting documentation
- Meet with Patrick and discuss compatibility of current web crawler options with regard to the pattern matcher software
Patrick
- Work Done this Fortnight
- Goals for Next Week
See also
