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#** Look into statistically analysing some results gathered last year. | #** Look into statistically analysing some results gathered last year. | ||
#** Continue work on text parser, start adding pattern matching features. | #** Continue work on text parser, start adding pattern matching features. | ||
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| + | === Semester 1 Week 6=== | ||
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| + | ====Steven==== | ||
| + | # <insert what you did> | ||
| + | # <insert your goal for next week> | ||
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| + | ====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 [[Stage 1 Design Document 2011|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. | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
Revision as of 01:58, 10 April 2011
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
- <insert what you did>
- <insert your goal for next week>
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
- <insert what you did>
- <insert your goal for next week>
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
- <insert what you did>
- <insert your goal for next week>
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
- <insert what you did>
- <insert your goal for next week>
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 and converts all to lowercase. Successfully tested on a Rubaiyat text file!
- Goals for Next Week
- Complete Stage 1 Progress Report and Submit/Put on wiki
- Continue with text parser work
Semester 1 Week 5
Steven
- <insert what you did>
- <insert your goal for next week>
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
- <insert what you did>
- <insert your goal for next week>
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.
See also
