Independent Capstone Project Design

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Course	Independent Capstone Project
Institution
Instructor(s)
Term
Course Overview	The student will create a detailed plan for an independent capstone project in an HFOSS community. This will demonstrate the totality of skills required by a CS graduate.
Course Length	{{{courselength}}}
Student Characteristics
Prerequisites	Basic knowledge of software development skills
Infrastructure

Background

At many institutions, students often enroll in a "capstone" course which requires a completion of a "big" project: a project that requires months rather than weeks to perform. Often this project involves teams of students rather than individuals, but might be performed as individuals. Often, the project is chosen arbitrarily by the instructor, and results in an artificial academic artifact at the end of the project.

Students and/or faculty who desire a project with a greater practical impact might be interested in joining an HFOSS community and choosing a project that would ultimately be submitted to that community. This activities outlines a potential path to planning such a project.

The project could be appropriate for individuals or teams; it could be appropriate for upper-division or lower-division students; it could be appropriate for projects of various time lengths. The plan gives room for individual faculty to customize to meet their needs.

Directions

Step One: Learn about HFOSS

Complete the following foss2serve learning activities:

Intro to FOSS (Activity)
Intro to FOSS Project Anatomy (Activity)
FOSS Field Trip (Activity)
Evaluate a Project (Activity)
As needed, activities to learn about contemporary tools commonly used in FOSS communities:

At the conclusion of Step One, the student will meet with the academic advisor to discuss the material covered and answer any questions.

Step Two: Select and Investigate an HFOSS Community

The student should investigate and a select an HFOSS community in which this capstone project will be performed.

After selection, the student should complete Evaluate a Project (Activity), in order to ensure that the HFOSS project is mature enough to support the capstone project.

Upon completion of the Evaluate a Project (Activity), the student will meet with the academic advisor to discuss the results and ensure that the selected community is mature enough to support the capstone project.

Step Three: Prepare The Capstone Plan

First, the student should complete the following activities in order to identify possible concrete tasks and/or deliverables that could be used within the selected HFOSS community:

Finally, in consultation with the academic advisor, the student should prepare the Final Capstone Project Design Document. The format for this will depend upon the particular institution, but may include many of the following items:

Project title
Faculty members involved in final review of the project
Description of the work to be performed, including:
- Value of the project to the HFOSS community
- Relationship of the project to institutional capstone goals
- Expected deliverables
Project timeline
Relationship to the overall HFOSS project, including dependencies (if any)
Prerequisite skills needed
Literature review (if needed)
Facilities and/or equipment required

Deliverables

The only deliverable is the Final Capstone Project Design Document, outlined in Step Three above.

Assessment

The project is successful if the student's department accepts the project proposal and allows the student to begin work on the capstone project.

Comments

Additional Information:

ACM BoK Area & Unit(s)	various
ACM BoK Topic(s)	various
Difficulty	medium to challenging, depending upon the project selected
Estimated Time to Complete	several weeks
Environment / Materials	Internet access, possibly access to various common FOSS tools (outlined below)
Author(s)	Jim Huggins (jhuggins@kettering.edu)
Source	Based on the September 2015 POSSE workshop POSSE 2015-09
License	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

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-|'''Title''' || Independent Capstone Project
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-|'''Overview''' || The student will create a detailed plan for an independent capstone project in an (H)FOSS community
-|-
-|'''Prerequisite Knowledge''' || Basic knowledge of software development skills
-|-
-|'''Learning Objectives''' || The student will prepare a detailed plan for a project that demonstrates the totality of skills required by a CS graduate.
-|}
-=== Background: ===
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+|course=
+Independent Capstone Project
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+|instructors=
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+The student will create a detailed plan for an independent capstone project in an HFOSS community.
+This will demonstrate the totality of skills required by a CS graduate.
+|students=
+|prerequisites=
+Basic knowledge of software development skills
+|infrastructure=
+}}
+=== Background ===
+At many institutions, students often enroll in a "capstone" course which requires a completion of a "big" project: a project that requires months rather than weeks to perform. Often this project involves teams of students rather than individuals, but might be performed as individuals. Often, the project is chosen arbitrarily by the instructor, and results in an artificial academic artifact at the end of the project.
-=== Directions: ===
+Students and/or faculty who desire a project with a greater practical impact might be interested in joining an HFOSS community and choosing a project that would ultimately be submitted to that community. This activities outlines a potential path to planning such a project.
-# '''Learn about (H)FOSS'''
+The project could be appropriate for individuals or teams; it could be appropriate for upper-division or lower-division students; it could be appropriate for projects of various time lengths. The plan gives room for individual faculty to customize to meet their needs.
-# '''Investigate an (H)FOSS Community'''
-# '''Prepare The Capstone Plan'''
-=== Deliverables: ===
+=== Directions ===
-# '''Final Capstone Project Proposal'''
+==== Step One: Learn about HFOSS ====
-=== Assessment: ===
+Complete the following foss2serve learning activities:
-The project is successful if the student's department accepts the project proposal and allows the student to begin work on the capstone project.
+# [[Intro to FOSS (Activity)]]
+# [[Intro to FOSS Project Anatomy (Activity)]]
+# [[FOSS Field Trip (Activity)]]
+# [[Evaluate a Project (Activity)]]
+# As needed, activities to learn about contemporary tools commonly used in FOSS communities:
+## [[Intro to Wiki (Activity)]]
+## [[Intro to IRC (Activity)]]
+## [[Blog Activity]]
+## [[Intro to Bug Trackers (Activity)]]
+## [[Intro to GitHub (Activity)]]
-=== Comments: ===
+At the conclusion of Step One, the student will meet with the academic advisor to discuss the material covered and answer any questions.
+==== Step Two: Select and Investigate an HFOSS Community ====
+The student should investigate and a select an HFOSS community in which this capstone project will be performed.
-=== Additional Information: ===
+After selection, the student should complete [[Evaluate a Project (Activity)]], in order to ensure that the HFOSS project is mature enough to support the capstone project.
-{| border="1"
-|-
-|'''ACM Knowledge Area/Knowledge Unit''' || What ACM Computing Curricula 2013 knowledge area and units does this activity cover? [[ACM_Body_of_Knowledge]]
-|-
-|'''ACM Topic''' || What specific topics are addressed? The Computing Curriucula 2013 provides a list of topics - https://www.acm.org/education/CS2013-final-report.pdf
-|-
-|'''Level of Difficulty''' || Is this activity easy, medium or challenging?
-|-
-|'''Estimated Time to Completion''' ||  How long should it take for the student to complete the activity?
-|-
-|'''Materials/Environment''' || What does the student need?  Internet access, IRC client, Git Hub account, LINUX machine, etc.?
-|-
-|'''Author''' || Who wrote this activity?
-|-
-|'''Source''' || Is there another activity on which this activity is based?  If so, please provide a link to the original resource.
-|-
-|'''License''' || Under which license is this material made available? (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/)
-|}
-=== Suggestions for Open Source Community: ===
+Upon completion of the [[Evaluate a Project (Activity)]], the student will meet with the academic advisor to discuss the results and ensure that the selected community is mature enough to support the capstone project.
-Suggestions for an open source community member who is working in conjunction with the instructor.
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+==== Step Three: Prepare The Capstone Plan ====
-This work is licensed under a
-[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License]
-[[File:CC_license.png]]
+First, the student should complete the following activities in order to identify possible concrete tasks and/or deliverables that could be used within the selected HFOSS community:
+# [[FOSS in Courses 1 (Instructors)]]
+# [[FOSS in Courses 2 (Instructors)]]
+Finally, in consultation with the academic advisor, the student should prepare the '''Final Capstone Project Design Document'''.  The format for this will depend upon the particular institution, but may include many of the following items:
+* Project title
+* Faculty members involved in final review of the project
+* Description of the work to be performed, including:
+** Value of the project to the HFOSS community
+** Relationship of the project to institutional capstone goals
+** Expected deliverables
+* Project timeline
+* Relationship to the overall HFOSS project, including dependencies (if any)
+* Prerequisite skills needed
+* Literature review (if needed)
+* Facilities and/or equipment required
+=== Deliverables ===
+The only deliverable is the '''Final Capstone Project Design Document''', outlined in Step Three above.
+=== Assessment ===
+The project is successful if the student's department accepts the project proposal and allows the student to begin work on the capstone project.
+=== Comments ===
+=== Additional Information: ===
+{{Learning Activity Info
+|acm unit=
+various
+|acm topic=
+various
+|difficulty=
+medium to challenging, depending upon the project selected
+|time=
+several weeks
+|environment=
+Internet access, possibly access to various common FOSS tools (outlined below)
+|author=
+Jim Huggins (jhuggins@kettering.edu)
+|source=
+Based on the September 2015 POSSE workshop [[POSSE 2015-09]]
+|license=
+{{License CC BY SA}}
+}}
+=== Suggestions for Open Source Community: ===
-[[Category: Learning_Activity]]
+[[Category:Learning Activity]]
-[[Category: LEARNING_ACTIVITY_SUBCATEGORY]]
+[[Category:Specification and Design]]
+[[Category:Capstone]]
+[[Category:Good Draft]]

Independent Capstone Project Design

Latest revision as of 13:21, 8 September 2018

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Step One: Learn about HFOSS

Step Two: Select and Investigate an HFOSS Community

Step Three: Prepare The Capstone Plan

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