Update Week 12:

We are working on the final video for the IAP presentations.

Here is an example of some of what will be on the video.

Hopefully one of the group members will post a video of the program?

We will see!

Update Week 11:

We mainly worked on the paper this week, and we did not make a video.

However here is a link to the marvelous paper.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6252240/Team%20Haptic%20Feedback%20-%20User%20Test.docx

There will be more to come!

We are going to work on the under armor model now so be ready!

Yeaaaaa!!!

Mythical Man Month: ch 16 17

Summary:

Most artificial barriers that once existed have been removed (severely restricted hardware etc)

Most Accidental difficulties have been solved.

There is no single solution to an overgrown and out of control project.

Software is extremely complex and unvisualizeable.  Visualization tools are very useful.

Conceptual errors are the meat of the problems that appear.

The author does not have much optimism for the usefulness of AI in software development.

covers several different hopes for greatly increased productivity in the future (automatic programming, experet systems, etc)

great designers are required to make great improvments to software.

NSB has become a core principle of many programming philosophies.

Update: Week 10

We are user testing!!

keep on rollin!

We need volunteers for next week!

Reports on Weeks 7,8, and [9]

I have been posting these on the wrong blog, they can be found here:

dlandinicapstone.blogspot.com

Week [9]: http://dlandinicapstone.blogspot.com/2011/04/results-for-week9.html
Week 8: http://dlandinicapstone.blogspot.com/2011/03/results-for-week-8.html
Week 7: http://dlandinicapstone.blogspot.com/2011/03/report-on-weeks-6-7.html

Sorry for the confusion.

-Derek