Progress Report

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Progress Report

• "Don't leave all the writing until the end. Keep
  notes - especially for the Progress, Design,
  Implementation, Testing and Evaluation sections.
  Even if the notes are only in point form, it will
  be much easier to write the Progress Report."

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Introduction

• Don't rewrite your introduction, perfect it.
• Has your supervisor requested that you radically
  change your introduction?
• Have you changed the scope and aims of your FYP?
• If not, you should not waste time rewriting your
  introduction. Instead, use the time to make sure
  your introduction is perfect. Proofread and check
  your verb tenses

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Progress

• In this section, think of the investigative
  process that you have gone through the trial and
  error. Did you think that Giddy's algorithm
  should work, but, in testing it, it didn't work?
  Why didn't it work? What did this the fact that
  it didn't work tell you? How did you apply this
  knowledge to the next algorithm you chose?
• This section is important as it shows your team's
  ability to think analytically and to problem-solve

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• Design
• Refine and formalize ideas and methods For
  example optic design, data structure design.
• Implementation
• Describe in detail how you will implement your
  ideas and designs.
• Testing
• Provide a test plan
• Must be more detailed than in the Proposal.
• Think of how you will determine if it is
  efficient - how will you interpret the results?
  How can you tell whether your implementation is
  effective and efficient?
• Evaluation
• Find a comparable system.
• Find more data sets.
• If it is a multifaceted system, take out one
  component and compare.

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Project Planning

• Update the Gantt Chart including everything that
  you have done and will do.

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References

• Update, unless you didn't get it right the first
  time.