CLASS PROJECT

Build something• Install on your machine• Build

• Desktop app• Web app (consider XAMPP or MAMP/WAMP)• Backend • User interface

• Must involve information management• Best to bring it in on a notebook• Share the development process as you go along

What sort of tool to experiment with?• Perhaps you know an area that others don’t know• Advanced or specialized data management

• Geographic information systems• Information integration• Images, video, animation, sound data• Music (MIDI or audio editing or synthesized instruments)• Natural language• Speech synthesis

Development environments• Web (focus on data):

• Ruby on Rails, Grails, Turbo Gears, Django, etc. • Rapidweaver, Freeway, etc. • HTML5 (local data storage, graphical and video data standards)

• Desktop app development environments focused on data intensive applications• REALbasic• Visual Studio

• Specialized database system• Geographical• CAD• Medical imaging, textual medical records

What to show• If you have a windows machine, we can plug you into the

TV displays• We can take turns looking at your screen• You can take screen capture (image or video), perhaps

with voice over• You can use slides, but only for screen capture and

remarks concerning the screen captures• No need to hand in a paper

Important• Programming (or a lot of it) is not required• But please put in time to share something substantive with

the class• Try to build something non-trivial• You can share it in stages• You can work in groups• ** End with a lesson or lessons learned!