Cipher cracking 2011 weekly progress
From Derek
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 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
- 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:
- Goals for week 7:
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.
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