The course project will have students build a "Question & Answer" website akin to those from StackExchange.com (namely, StackOverflow.com). The project will be broken down into four milestones, where a milestone will consist of requirements to be met by each student's implementation.
Each milestone will have a set of "Base Requirements" and "Get Ahead" requirements. Students only need to be concerned with meeting the Base Requirements for the milestone's deliverables. The Get Ahead requirements must be met for the milestone after the milestone in which they are defined (e.g., Milestone 1's Get Ahead requirements will be due as part of Milestone 2), so students can opt to begin working on these if time permits.
About half way through the milestone (see the schedule for due dates), a midway status report will be presented in class by each student. This report will consist of a 2-3 minute presentation (with slides) describing the planning done by the student to meet the milestone's requirements, preliminary design strategies, the status of development, and any further information to signify that progress is being made. A demo is not necessary but screenshots are encouraged. This presentation will be worth 2 of the 25 points for the milestone. You will get 0 of 2 points if you are not present or fail to show progress. Even beginning to think about the problem or develop design is considered progress, so long as you show it in the midway status report.
The four milestones' and midway presentation dates and deadlines will be defined on the course website.
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At 3:00pm on the demo day, a script will clone the GitHub repository you specified in assignment 1.
host: localhost
username: admin
password: 5pR1nG2OlS
The home page for your web site must be located in a file named "index.php". In addition to the files for the web site, you should also provide a backup of your MySQL database for importing for your project demo. This can be accomplished in the phpMyAdmin Export tab. The resulting file should be a .sql file. This file will be loaded into a MySQL instance on demo day, so verification of the integrity of the dump (i.e., try to import it using phpMyAdmin) is encouraged. Include this file in the root of your project repository as milestone3dump.sql. Include enough questions, answers, and users to effectively evaluate your web site.
We will use a Docker-based deployment scheme on demo day. This system will be equipped with the latest PHP, mySQL, and Apache versions. The instance will also expect the milestone3dump.sql and index.php files to be in the root of your project repository and will assume you used the above credentials for interaction with your database.
As an alternative to the above default configuration, you can provide a config.ini
file in the root of your repository with the follow key-value pairs. You can customize the values but if the config.ini
file is provided, it will override the other defaults specified above.
[cs418]
dbuser=jatwood
dbpass=Th3h0RROr!
dbname=mycs418database
dbdump=customDumpFilename.sql
Per the syllabus, a brief writeup detailing how each requirement was met, design decisions, programming tricks, and helpful resources consulted is required to be submitted as a hard copy on demo day.