Cipher cracking 2011 weekly progress

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

1. <insert what you did>
2. <insert your goal for next week>

Patrick

1. 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.
2. 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

1. <insert what you did>
2. <insert your goal for next week>

Patrick

1. 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
2. Goals for Next Week
   • Complete and PRESENT Proposal Seminar
   • Begin work on verifying previous years' results

Semester 1 Week 3

Steven

1. <insert what you did>
2. <insert your goal for next week>

Patrick

1. 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!
2. 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

1. <insert what you did>
2. <insert your goal for next week>

Patrick

1. 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!
2. Goals for Next Week
   • Complete Stage 1 Progress Report and Submit/Put on wiki
   • Continue with text parser work

Semester 1 Week 5

Steven

1. <insert what you did>
2. <insert your goal for next week>

Patrick

1. 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
2. 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.

See also

• Cipher Cracking 2011
• Final Report 2011
• Stage 1 Design Document 2011
• Progress Report 2011

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