shud i begin the major project? (1 Viewer)

[:: ck ::]

hehe i kno u guy's are all prolli studyin hard for ur exams n shiet

just wondering if u think it's wise if i start my project durin these holliz... haha but i haven been given the criteria etc...

is there any restrictions on what u can make... wot lang... blah blah...

i want to accomplish something these holidays... n want to finish major project earlyish so i don't end up doing it all on the last few wks

i know theres heaps of time ... but yea ... tell me wot u think if it's smart or stupid idea

 

[Winston]

Yeah u should might as well, have it easier on yourself...

for criteria, it's dependent on your schools teacher


our one had no restrictions.

 

[anti]

i think most don't have restrictions. it'd be good to get it out of the way since it's not really the most important part of sdd.

 

[Ragerunner]

lol.

I was thinking "Isn't School over?"

But then realised your year 11

Yeah it's best to get it out of the way early and concentrate on study throughout the year.

 

[Jeo]

Originally posted by Ragerunner
lol.

I was thinking "Isn't School over?"

But then realised your year 11

me too

 

[Rahul]

learn more about the programming language. thats what i would have done in my situation. find out the quality of the top programs from last yr and learn from them.

set up a log book, ie like a database or something that you can use. make it fancy or whatever.
go through your program package from yr 11 and make notes of the thing you will include in the log book, and what also what you could/should have included. our log book was 10 out of the 35 marks.....so the BS we made up in it counted a lot
go through other projects and get more of these ideas.

the main thing is to 'start' early, which you have....

 

[Ragerunner]

lol. My major project was annoying.

Log book done the day before the due date.
I still don't know much about VB. Just googled an existing program and backward engineered it and made my own documentatino for it. This was because of poor planning.

Since you will be starting year 12 soon, it would be excellent to get the project out of the way and focus on other subjects incase you end up in the situation of it being due very close to the trials and wasting a lot of time.

 

[enak]

If you're like me, you will keep procrastinating until an month before it's due , but I agree that doing it earlier is better than doing it later.

 

[ezzy85]

our schools vb was down for the whole year, so we used that as an excuse to do it on the weekend it was due. and we got 97%. but starting now would be the way to go.

 

[Winston]

i started mine wen i got it but i just did research i officially coded in februrary of this yr

it pays off starting early, i got a 100% so yea

 

[Fosweb]

Originally posted by Ragerunner
Just googled an existing program and backward engineered it and made my own documentatino for it.

That's funny... Last month i had:
2 people get to my site by typing: "hsc sdd major project download"
1 person with "hsc major design project layout"

And before last month:
4 people with "sdd major project"

So if you were one of these people, reverse engineering one of my projects, I'd love to come and kick your arse right now. You are also stupid. With a little more searching, the full source code for all my stuff is also there...

But seriously: ryan.cck get started now on your major.
Just keep your program simple, as most probably, your documentation will be worth far more than the actual program.

Some things that would be 'useful' to you if you incorporated these into your program. (As these things often come up as algorithms in an exam)

1. Standard algorithms for searching/sorting.
2. Use of records/arrays.
3. Reading/writing to a file. Especially using Random Access files and writing records to these files.
4. String manipulation

Start doing things like your data-dictionary and test data from the start. Use Access for these kind of things, and it will make life easier in the long run, and give you evidence of usage of CASE tools.

 

[Ragerunner]

Nah I never got one from your site.

The one I did was a frogger game and tic-tac-toe.

I combined it into one game and made it look fancy.

 

[Fosweb]

Well. I would still be interested to know what these people who did get stuff from my site did with it.

 

[Winston]

yeah people are asses for copying peoples source code, especially taxing them from planetsourcecode, one of those chatting clients arggghhh idiots i tell u, dont do SDD if u cant even make a simple program for ur major work dammit...


ryan make a wordpad that's something nice simple and challenging

 

[Fosweb]

Wordpad: Actually - that would give you a number of cool things that you could do. Such as:

1. Formatting. Easy.
2. 'Find and Replace' using Regular Expressions. Bit harder but cool stuff.
3. Spell checking. Not hard.
Etc... endless possibilities for adding things to your project. You should do something that you can add things to along the way.

 

[Winston]

Originally posted by Fosweb
Wordpad: Actually - that would give you a number of cool things that you could do. Such as:

1. Formatting. Easy.
2. 'Find and Replace' using Regular Expressions. Bit harder but cool stuff.
3. Spell checking. Not hard.
Etc... endless possibilities for adding things to your project. You should do something that you can add things to along the way.

Fosweb u just had to add "Regular Expressions" in didn't you?
lol i hate dealing with them i always get a headache, but i've been reading the guide, but i'm so lazy to remember.

 

[Fosweb]

Hehe... Not that bad once you learn how to use them. Plus then you keep finding places where they are useful. But VB is not the best language for RE...

 

[Beaky]

I'd be more worried about creating good quality algorithims for the exams...

ohh wait... thats prob cause ive finished my major... and forgotten how stressful it is!!!

hehe... now im stressed for the software exam!!!

Do it now man!!! start studying NOW!!! kill software!!! you have soo much time... bahhhhhhhhhh not me 4 weeks!!!!ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

 

[Winston]

Originally posted by Fosweb
Hehe... Not that bad once you learn how to use them. Plus then you keep finding places where they are useful. But VB is not the best language for RE...

yeah VB6 sucks, but VB.NET makes regular expressions come to live, i dont use it for replacing strings i do it for format validation. it's cool!

 

[Fosweb]

i suppose i will have to get around to learning some .Net after HSC.