From 7 to 8 (11/09/02)

The first Assignment was due yesterday the 10/09 !

You should always plan to finish (implementation AND testing AND documentation) a project one week before the due date ...

What if the internet does not work the due day ?

What if you get ill the day before ?

What if your hard drive crash the antepenultimate day ?

(Third from last)

What if there is no text editor available in the lab ?

What if you first have to the learn the language before beginning the assignment ?

What if you decide to begin the testing step of your project 2 hours before the due time, and that eventually a major bug appears ?

What if you decide to post your project at 23H59mn500ms and you forgot than the "client" mailbox could be more than 500ms away from your mail tool ? or perhaps is full ?

What if you are so used to program at night that you forgot that midnight isn't in fact midday ?

What if by the end, you get so tired that you send the wrong version ?

What if the last video data projector get stolen the day before your presentation ?

What is one member of your team decide to resign right in the middle of the project ?

What if the computer you had planed to work on is not available ?

What if your first child made her first teeth the week before ?

What if ...

You should had planed something for each situation ...

At least ... you should try to negotiate : keep your client informed

And how much does it cost ?

2 weeks, 10 man days, 1500$/day, 10% a day for late penalties

Next Assignment

Because of an official policy, due date : 18th of October. Late penalties from the 22nd of October. No Exception : it is a group work (make sure you synchronise your work on two different hard disks).

15 mn presentation of each projects : the 30 and 31 of October

5 weeks + 1

You read the project, meet each other, design the project
Learn what you need to learn to do the project
Program
Meet again and check that the different classes match together. Test and correction
Documentation + send the result
Sleep well and be ready to present your project

From 7 to 8 (11/09/02)

The first Assignment was due yesterday the 10/09 !

You should always plan to finish (implementation AND testing AND documentation) a project one week before the due date ...

What if the internet does not work the due day ?

What if you get ill the day before ?

What if your hard drive crash the antepenultimate day ?

What if there is no text editor available in the lab ?

What if you first have to the learn the language before beginning the assignment ?

What if you decide to begin the testing step of your project 2 hours before the due time, and that eventually a major bug appears ?

What if you decide to post your project at 23H59mn500ms and you forgot than the "client" mailbox could be more than 500ms away from your mail tool ? or perhaps is full ?

What if you are so used to program at night that you forgot that midnight isn't in fact midday ?

What if by the end, you get so tired that you send the wrong version ?

What if the last video data projector get stolen the day before your presentation ?

What is one member of your team decide to resign right in the middle of the project ?

What if the computer you had planed to work on is not available ?

What if your first child made her first teeth the week before ?

What if ...

You should had planed something for each situation ...

At least ... you should try to negotiate : keep your client informed

And how much does it cost ?

Next Assignment

Because of an official policy, due date : 18th of October. Late penalties from the 22nd of October. No Exception : it is a group work (make sure you synchronise your work on two different hard disks).

15 mn presentation of each projects : the 30 and 31 of October

5 weeks + 1

You read the project, meet each other, design the project

Learn what you need to learn to do the project

Program

Meet again and check that the different classes match together. Test and correction

Documentation + send the result

Sleep well and be ready to present your project

Subject Presentation

Form your groups before Friday ( = send me a email before Thursday)

A group to work with Shaun Press

Today

Behaviour

Interpolator

Case study, 3D ball Animation model

Readings :

Generic 3D Ball Animation Model for Networked Interactive VR Environments