Archive for the ‘Student Projects’ Category

Fall Courses

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

I am teaching two courses this fall, and would like you to help me decide what my students should work on.  The first course, "CSC301: Introduction to Software Engineering", is aimed at third-year students (juniors in American parlance), and covers agile software development processes, design patterns, and other introductory material.  ...

What My Students Have Learned This Summer

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

This post from John Cook, summarizing this post from Thomas Guest, is a pretty good description of what our students have spent the summer finding out...

Belated Barbecue Photos

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

We had our mid-summer student barbecue a couple of Fridays ago, and a good time was had by all. The photos are courtesy of Qiyu Zhu: In transit This must be the place. Whozat? Or we could use recursion! Mmm... Dancing, dancing!

Summer 2008 Logo

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Our summer students have chosen a logo for their t-shirts.  Yes, that is a hippo wearing a toque (knit cap, if you're American), a scarf, and an inflatable swim toy. You wouldn't believe how much discussion it took to get this far...

A Distributed Single Point of Failure

Friday, July 18th, 2008

And this week: Kosta Zabashta has discovered that infinite loops can span machines. Nicole Allard has finished her Eclipse plugin, and made a new screencast to show it off. Liz Blankenship has been busy. Dan Servos has discovered that the web never sleeps. Eva Wong is assembling her final GUI. Jeff Balogh is wrestling with grids.

Nick’s Last Day

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Tomorrow is Nick Jamil's last day with us---he'ss done a great job of building a variable-speed ticketing system for DrProject, but now he's got to put all that energy into getting married :-) To wrap up, he has put two posts on his blog: The problems that join limits in SQLite ...

Up On Stage

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Tuesday was Kosta's turn; today was Victoria Mui's.  Having spent most of the last week and a half reading source code, she got up a few minutes ago and gave a quick talk about her Google Summer of Code project at the Cytoscape retreat. I was impressed once again with ...

A Little Warm…

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

...but mostly fun: DemoCamp 18 was last night, and as Lillian's review says, it went pretty well. The venue was too small, and as she said, some of the off-color humor was a little tiresome, but it was good to see such a strong turnout from U of T, ...

Kosta Needs Your Input

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Kosta Zabashta is looking for input on one more feature for DrProject IRC integration before his demo on Tuesday.  You could win a prize!  (Not from him or me, just... you know, generally, there's nothing stopping you from winning something from someone...)

Yes, Our Students Are Still Busy

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Week 9 of 15 (or 10, or 16, depending on which student we're talking about), and we're all staying busy: I wrote five mid-term evaluations this morning. Unsurprisingly, I had more to say about the students who blog regularly than about those who don't. Qiyu Zhu has wrapped up the role editor. ...