Resources for Final Year Projects

 

Welcome to a resource page for information that may be helpful when you are considering and working on your FYP. This site has been thrown together to try to stop the mail server collapsing under the weight of documents I would otherwise be sending out by e-mail

Here is a link that will tell you precisely how many days are left until hand-in day on 7th May 2019, which will be close to the hand-in date for your FYP if you are starting in September 2018

Please click on the relevant links to access this information. More information will appear here as and when it becomes useful for you to see it. In fact there's already so much I've restructured it a bit.

Content	Link
A document to help you formulate your thoughts when considering your project	here
Some things to think about if you would like me to supervise your project	here
An example of a very good project report from a year or so ago in which a software artefact was created	here
A PowerPoint presentation with information about a number of SDLCs and methodologies	here
A workplace risk assessment form and guidance on the DSE regulations to help with the risk assessment you have to do	here
The explanation of Weighted Comparison Matrices that some of you had difficulty seeing in an e-mail	here
Guidance (from the faculty) on what an FYP should include\consider for each award	here
The proposed schedule of meetings for semester one	here
The official timetable for what you have to do when for a submission this year is on Blackboard	here
Guidance on writing an FYP proposal	here
An example of a good, generic proposal	here
A mind map of  the different aspects to be considered when thinking about developing software	here
An example of an 'academic' style of writing	here
Another, longer, example of a referenced academic style of writing	here
Definitions of what an abstract is to make doing one easier	here
An example of an abstract from the same work from which the first example of writing style is taken	here
A guide on the Harvard referencing system	here
The official FYP handbook	here
The official FYP timescales	here
The official FYP web site	here
A summary of the SWAT hybrid methodology we spoke about	here
and the gory detail of  it  (this is a big document)	here
Some info on different Software Development Lifecycles and related things:	Waterfall RAD Protyping Barry Boehm's Spiral Model The V Model The RUP Extreme Programming Scrum and here is a comparison of several with pros and cons of eafch
Some freeware to help you draw mindmaps (thanks Joachim) There's also loads more if you Google it	here
An explanation of ethical issues according to the BCS	here
An explanation of ethical issues according to the BPS	here
A 'fast track' ethical approval form. You should all fill one of these in and give them to me for signing	here
A mind map (pasted into Word) of possible report content with particular focus on the research section. You will need to zoom in a lot.	here
The test plan that was mentioned in our meeting. Bear in mind that this was for an early release of software that did not have much functionality. It became much bigger later in the project.	here
An example of the tasks extracted from a real project plan - two years' work for a number of people	here
The plan itself for the above project	here
The guidelines I send out to the project students whom I am second assessing at the Mid-point Viva this coming January	here
The official guidelines about the mid-point viva and the second asessor's role generally	here
Some thoughts about Gradex and the stuff that you are asked to produce for it. Even if you have no intention of being there	here
An alternative, illustrative, project plan, first as an .mpp file and then as a Word document	here
An example of a system navigation chart (another sort of blob picture)	here
Input that might help when you are planning your final presentation\demonstration	here

This page was created in, or about, September 2006 and last updated on June 26th 2018.