practicum OO: marking and reviewing

All assignments will be reviewed on the quality of the application, its design, documentation and the way object-oriented design and implementation techniques are deployed. Before and after marking by the supervisors, students may be requested to process review criticism and adapt their application or documentation or to demonstrate their application.

Documentation

The documentation includes at least a requirements specification, design specification, and a user manual. The design specification should describe (the pros and cons) of your design decisions in a short, comprehensive article (aprox. five pages), explaining the global architecture of your application, and the role of object-orientation in solving the main design problems.

Architecture

By architecture we mean both design and implementation of the application, and both must reflect object-oriented concepts such as encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism. The system architecture needs to be transparent and the application needs to install smoothly.

Interface

The application needs to have an intuitive, easy-to-use GUI with associative on-line help.

Note: The requirements listed above are given as a directive, individual markings and reviews may deviate.