Write a proposal for a software product you would like to pursue for the majority of the semester. Make it obvious, interesting, and make the need for it sound convincing.
You are welcome to write a proposal with up to 5 other students, if desired. If you do work with others on the proposal, you must clearly indicate the names of all the team members in your proposal.
Your proposal must focus on the product's value proposition, including answers to the questions below. Keep it thorough but concise. If you are not clear on whether your writing is any good, consult with a friend.
Give your project a nice title.
What software system would you like to build this semester, and why? Include a description of what problem the system would solve and why this is important.
Who will this software be for? These people are your end-users or customers.
Do not make software for imaginary users who do not exist - you must have real people as your initial end-users. Tell us who they are. For example, is it for a particular type of business, mass consumer, a campus office, a professor, or friends or family, or ... people just like you.
Understanding who your end-users are, and ideally speaking with some along the way, will help you refine your designs to be suitable for your audience, and understand whether you have succeeded at the end or not.
A description of what the system will do from an end-user's perspective. Be as complete as necessary to fully explain the system, but do not worry about technical implementation - this will be developed in subsequent work.
A brief justification that the proposal is neither too easy nor too ambitions for a group of approximately 4 - 6 programmers to undertake in one semester.
Complete the assignment as a Markdown document in the file named README.md in this repository. The message should be nicely formatted and outlined with a clear heading and sub-headings for each section.
Use the git features of Visual Studio Code to commit your work and push them to the GitHub repository.
Share the link to your document in your private assignments Discord channel AND in the public #project-ideas channel. In both cases, include the title of your project for all to see in the message.
We will select a subset of the proposals that we think will be the most interesting and appropriate for this course. These will be published to the class. Your next assignment will be to rank your favorites. We will then make team assignments based on this information and the answers you have provided to the previous introductory questionnaire.
If your proposal is selected, you are 99% guaranteed to be part of that team.