Due on or before April 27, 2009, 4:30 p.m.
This problem is to be done on a group basis following the Trinity University Academic Integrity Policy. or Trinity University Honor Code.
All students are covered by a policy that prohibits dishonesty in academic work. The Academic Integrity Policy (AIP) covers all students who entered Trinity before the Fall of 2004. The Academic Honor Code covers all those who entered the Fall of 2004 or later. The Integrity Policy and the Code share many features: each asserts that the academic community is based on honesty and trust; each contains the same violations; each provides for a procedure to determine if a violation has occurred and what the punishment will be; each provides for an appeal process. The main difference is that the faculty implements the AIP while the Honor Code is implemented by the Academic Honor Council. Under the Academic Integrity Policy, the faculty member determines whether a violation has occurred as well as the punishment for the violation (if any) within certain guidelines. Under the Honor Code, a faculty member will (or a student may) report an alleged violation to the Academic Honor Council. It is the task of the Council to investigate, adjudicate, and assign a punishment within certain guidelines if a violation has been verified. Students who are under the Honor Code are required to pledge all written work that is submitted for a grade: On my honor, I have neither given nor received any unauthorized assistance on this work and heir signature. The pledge may be abbreviated pledged with a signature.
Laboratory problems should be submitted electronically (e-mail to cs3194@leda.cs.trinity.edu) on or before the due date and should contain a problem write-up, source code to any programs and data sets used in solving the problem. The submitted files should be ASCII text files having Unix end-of-line characters (please convert all Windows and Mac text files to Unix format-I have found that Emacs or the Stone Text Tool seem to do a reasonable job of such conversions). If several files need to be submitted, put them in a directory having name your-last-name-problem-set-number and create a tar archive of this file system and attach it to your e-mail problem submission.
The Junior design problem involves the development of an iPhone application for a real-world problem in the management of large construction projects. The problem will involve aquisition of information from phone sybsystems such as the GPS radio, etc. and internet based communication with remote systems, databases, etc.
Mr. Ron Toupal or Trinity University ITS (Mr. Fred Zapata, Tony Salinas) will be outside consultants for the project and provide assistance in determining the application requirements.
For an example of the kind of iPhone applications which might be useful in a University setting, you should consult the following projects which are on-going at Stanford University and Abilene Christian University.
Stanford: http://www.terriblyclever.com/marketing/iPhone_Athletics.swf
Stanford: http://www.terriblyclever.com/marketing/iPhone_Directory.swf
ACU: http://www.acu.edu/technology/mobilelearning/index.html
This project work will be a preliminary project to a closely related Senior Software project which the Junior group will be involved in as Seniors during the Fall 2009 semester. Because of this, Dr. Pitts will be an additional project consultant for the Junior design problem.
There are two iPhone projects:
The Sanford and ACU iPhone projects have similar iPhone apps and these projects should be consulted as examples of what might be involved in your designs.
The juniors will be divided into two 5 man teams to work on these two projects.
Here are the groups (as determined by J):
names =: 'Alexander Bacon';'Christopher Dudley';'Nicholas Gilmore';'Rebecca Ingram';'Arno Kristel'
names =: names,'Matthew Maly';'David Mann';'Scott McClellan';'Troy McKinnon';'James McNiff'
groups =: 'Group 1';'Group 2'
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Group 1
Alexander Bacon
Troy McKinnon
James McNiff
Nicholas Gilmore
Rebecca Ingram
Group 2
David Mann
Scott McClellan
Matthew Maly
Arno Kristel
Christopher Dudley
The problem will consist of at least the following phases:
Problem requirements will be determined from independent problem research and consultation with the instructor and project consultants, and Dr. Pitts. Dr. Chuck White (Vice President of Information Resources and Administrative Affairs), Mr. Fred Zapata (Director of ITS), and Mr. Tony Salinas (Assistant Director of ITS) have agreed to act as consultants for the Trinity iPhone projects.
A requirements document must be submitted to the instructor by February 16, 2009.
You should give some attention to user interface design. For example, it may be appropriate that the designers study existing iPhone applications and study iPhone software application development interfaces so that the application design follows the Apple iPhone application user interface guidelines.
Since this is a real-world problem, there is an excellent chance that, if your design meets the requirements you identify, your design and implementation will be used on a production basis.