Archive for the ‘Student Projects’ Category

A Rails Question

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

One of our project students has a weird problem with Rails --- if you have an answer (weird or otherwise), we'd like to hear from you. I want to send an AJAX request to the server using POST. Rails is supposed to handle parameter passing, placing all parameters in the params hash. When ...

Second Season of Usability Wraps Up

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

The second Season of Usability just wrapped up; Ellen Reitmayr has posted a summary, along with a description of the excellent work that Liz Blankenship did on DrProject's administration interface.  It was a tremendous help --- they're already soliciting mentors, sponsors, projects, and students for next year.

Student Projects This Term

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

The students in my CSC491 capstone course picked their projects today---here are the students (S) and mentors (M) for the term: Porting the Online Marking tool (OLM) to Ruby On Rails: Mike Conley (S), Geofrey Flores (S), Prof. Karen Reid (M) Benchmarking the Usability of Scientific Workflow Tools: Fan Dong (S), Prof. ...

Rails Reviewer Wanted

Monday, September 1st, 2008

For the past few days, Blake Winton has been reviewing every single commit made by a team of students who building a medium-sized Django application. We'd really like to find someone (not necessarily in the Toronto area, but that would make it easier for me to buy her/him lunch) who'd ...

Summer’s End

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

The last of our summer students finishes at the end of this week; here's a few links to close off another great season: Dan Servos has finished his grade statistics visualization plugin for Moodle. Victoria Mui has been having fun with springs --- her screencast is here. Eva Wong wishes she had a ...

Wrapping Up

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

The summer is coming to an end, so students are posting screencasts: Matthew Basset: Team Foundation Server plugin for Hackystat. Qi Yang: Web-CAT. Ming Chow and Wenbing Li: FlareFlow SQL Query Builder. Previously posted: Nicole Allard: feature diagrams plugin for Eclipse. Nick Jamil: a customizable ticketing system for DrProject. It's been another great summer---I'm proud to have ...

Home Stretch for Students

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Coming down to the wire... Dan Servos has another Moodle visualization working. Anyone want to give me some money so I can hire this guy? Qiyu Zhu is producing useful error reports and new screens for creating users and projects. Shiny. Victoria Mui is laying out labels and making Gary Bader happy. Qi Yang ...

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!