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Aquarium Project Overview
During this task you will make an aquarium using small basic. You are to work as a team by splitting the project up into small tasks and allocating work. This project is designed to last for about 8 weeks, 3 weeks planning and learning about project management, 4 weeks to produce the aquarium and 1 week to present your work.
So what do you need to do?
The project title is Aquarium, and you will mainly be using Small Basic to complete the project. The rest is up to you, this is a project where you can improve your group working skills and show off your coding talent, artistic vision and imagination in anyway you like (providing your teacher approves your planning). You can use any software you want to contribute to the project, for example you might want to use Adobe Photoshop to create or edit and image to be used in your aquarium.
Note: You should have completed the 'Think like a Computer Scientist' project before you start this project.
So what do you need to do?
The project title is Aquarium, and you will mainly be using Small Basic to complete the project. The rest is up to you, this is a project where you can improve your group working skills and show off your coding talent, artistic vision and imagination in anyway you like (providing your teacher approves your planning). You can use any software you want to contribute to the project, for example you might want to use Adobe Photoshop to create or edit and image to be used in your aquarium.
Note: You should have completed the 'Think like a Computer Scientist' project before you start this project.
Learning Outcomes
During this task you should:
- Learn new ways on working as a team.
- Learn how to effectively communicate as a team.
- Reasons and methods of keeping communication to a minimum.
- Learn how to manage tasks including serial and parallel running of tasks through use of a Gantt chart.
- Learn how to produce a Gantt chart using a spreadsheet.
- Enhance your coding skills - specifically the use of algorithms.
- Learn how to use different software and integrate work into one final coded project.
Activities Overview
This project is broken up into 3 task and the activities included in the tasks are listed below.
1: Select your groups - about 3 people per group is good, minimum 2 people maximum 4 people.
2:As a group produce a mind map including features of your aquarium including any interaction you may wish to have.
3: Each member of the team should draw some sketches of what your aquarium will look like.
4: Have a team meeting to discuss the most appropriate solution to follow.
5: As a group draw and note down what you would like you finished project to include.
6: Break down the project (Decomposition) into small pieces that can be allocated to each member of the group.
7: Produce a Gantt Chart on excel to clearly show who is doing which task, when tasks should be started and finished and which task should run in parallel and which need to run in series.
8: Produce all the individual parts of the project.
9: Pull all the parts together to produce 1 complete aquarium project.
10: Prepare the presentation of your finished project.
1: Select your groups - about 3 people per group is good, minimum 2 people maximum 4 people.
2:As a group produce a mind map including features of your aquarium including any interaction you may wish to have.
3: Each member of the team should draw some sketches of what your aquarium will look like.
4: Have a team meeting to discuss the most appropriate solution to follow.
5: As a group draw and note down what you would like you finished project to include.
6: Break down the project (Decomposition) into small pieces that can be allocated to each member of the group.
7: Produce a Gantt Chart on excel to clearly show who is doing which task, when tasks should be started and finished and which task should run in parallel and which need to run in series.
8: Produce all the individual parts of the project.
9: Pull all the parts together to produce 1 complete aquarium project.
10: Prepare the presentation of your finished project.