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School of Computing — Year 4 Project Proposal Form

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SECTION A

Project Title: xxxxxx
Student 1 Name: xxxxxx
Student 1 ID: xxxxxx
Student 2 Name: xxxxxx
Student 2 ID: xxxxxx
Project Supervisor: xxxxxx

Ensure that the Supervisor formally agrees to supervise your project; this is only recognised once the Supervisor assigns herself/himself via the project Dashboard.

Project proposals without an assigned Supervisor will not be accepted for presentation to the Approval Panel.

SECTION B

Guidance: This document is expected to be approximately 3 pages in length, but it can exceed this page limit. It is also permissible to carry forward content from this proposal to your later documents (e.g. functional specification) as appropriate.

Your proposal must include at least the following sections.

Introduction

Describe the general area covered by the project.

Outline

Outline the proposed project.

Background

Where did the ideas come from?

Achievements

What functions will the project provide? Who will the users be?

Justification

Why/when/where/how will it be useful?

Programming language(s)

List the proposed language(s) to be used.

Programming tools / Tech stack

Describe the compiler, database, web server, etc., and any other software tools you plan to use.

Hardware

Describe any non-standard hardware components which will be required.

Learning Challenges

List the main new things (technologies, languages, tools, etc) that you will have to learn.

Breakdown of work

Clearly identify who will undertake which parts of the project.

It must be clear from the explanation of this breakdown of work both that each student is responsible for separate, clearly-defined tasks, and that those responsibilities substantially cover all of the work required for the project.

Student 1

Student 1 should complete this section.

Student 2

Student 2 should complete this section.

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