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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.

Briefly record (i) progress, (ii) problems/questions, (iii) goals for following week.

Semester 1 Week 1

Lucy

1. Week 1 progress:
   • Met with Peter
   • Read and discussed background information on the case (from wikipedia, newspaper articles etc.)
   • Attended the literature training session with Kay Leverette

1. Goals for Week 2:
   • Meet with Prof. Derek Abbott
   • Begin preparation for Project Proposal Seminar in week 4.

Peter

1. Week 1 progress:
   • First meeting with Lucy.
   • Reviewed background info about the case, including videos and info from Derek Abbott's page.
   • Attended to the Literature Search Training Session with with Kay Leveret in the Barr Smith Library.
2. Goals for Week 2:
   • Meet Prof. Abbott.
   • Find out what tasks we will be perusing within the scope of the project.
   • Read through previous years work, including the documents on the wiki.

Semester 1 Week 2

Lucy

1. Week 2 progress:
2. Met with Derek Abbott
3. Discussed the many tasks for the project and the content for the proposal
4. Received a copy of the last year's honors students' work on CD (from Peter)
5. Attended the Risk Assessment Lecture by Danny Gibbins (Acting Honors/Design Project Coordinator)
6. Goals for Week 3:
7. Complete preparation for Proposal Seminar
8. Decide on scope for project (pic which tasks we will attempt)

Peter

1. Week 2 progress:
   • First proper meeting with Derek and Lucy.
   • Discussed the different possible directions we could go in the project with Derek.
   • Discussed with Lucy which of the above we would like to pursue this year.
   • Introduced to the wiki and previous year's work and files from the wiki and CD form.
2. Goals for Week 3:
   • Get last year's students code working and understand where they left of.
   • From there make a start redoing their tests and looking at them critically as a starting point for the project.
   • Finish the proposal seminar presentation.

Semester 1 Week 3

Semester 2 Week 12

Lucy

1. Week 12 progress:
2. Goals for Week 13:

Peter

1. Week 12 progress:
2. Goals for Week 13:

See also

• Cipher Cracking 2013
• Semester A Progress Report 2013
• Semester B Final Report 2013
• Cipher Cross-off List

Back

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• Back to Derek Abbott's homepage
• Back to EEE Department page
• Back to the University of Adelaide homepage
• Back to Cipher Cracking 2013 homepage