Segmenting makes sense only if you have completed the outreach exercise. Recall that in the
outreach process you were to collect information and then reflect on it and distill it into a
few sentences that describe a project or a task. If your work accomplished both information
gathering and creating a short summary that could be passed on to anyone else wishing to work
on a project, you should proceed through this part. Otherwise, return to the seeking stage.
1. Describe the design process in stages.
Find parts make up the whole desired goal. Is there an interface component? Would it be useful
to investigate the market? How would the system be sold? Create a series of activities that
comprise the overall project.
We've already discussed the project process this term via benchmarks and milestones that
involved stages. Some of the stages we've described follow in the next few sentences. Giving
an initial talk to gain experience at giving presentations and to gather feedback or gain
partners. Creating and exchanging weekly progress reports. Writing an intermediate or
preliminary project report.
2. Write a project description - tell about the overall job.
The project description is a brief statement, something consisting of a few sentences, that
describes what happens as a result of the project activity.
3. Write a work statement.
Supply detail about a specific task. It should be enough that you could give the work statement
or task description to another person. When the person returns with some results you will need
to measure the accomplishments against the written statement you provided to determine
whether there is a satisfactory result.
4. Seek specifications.
Look for ways to indicate quantitative measures you need to have satisfied or or definite
qualities that must be present.
Create a written statement. This second short written document has the purpose of supporting
some project by breaking out detailed needs that are part of the overall job.
1. When considering use of visual representation, which statement is true?
(a) Half of eleven is six (in one number-representation system).
(b) An outline is not an accepted form for a talk visual.
(c) A table in a project would have to involve numeric data entries.
2. Computer science design projects:
(a) Can't employ randomness. (b) Are either hardware or software. (c) Neither (a) nor (b) .
3. For a presentation:
(a) A handout is essential. (b) Prepared visuals are helpful. (c) Neither (a) nor (b) .
4. We write weekly progress reports:
(a) To please managers. (b) For practical reasons, e.g., tracking the work.
(c) To gain skill, gather results, and document authorship.
5. The general principle of computer science reporting is:
(a) The longer the report the better. (b) The more lines of code presented the better.
(c) A well-written report is a useful business tool.
6. Select the mathematical statement that is absolutely true in all situations.
(a) (1/2) + (1/3) = 5/6. (b) (1/2) + (1/3) = 5/6 or 2/5. (c) (1/2) + (1/3) = 5/6 or 2/5 or1/5.
7. The force in pounds on the other end of a string that has a one pound weight at one end, and was wrapped around a tree branch two complete times (angle 4p) is:
(a) Less than a thousand.. (b) Slightly more than a thousand. (c) Above a million.
8. Binary summation yields:
(a) 1000 + 1000 = 2000. (b) 1001 + 1010 =10011 (c) 1001 + 1001 =11011.
9. The hyperbolic cosine of a real value x is:
(a) (ex - e-x) /2. (b) Neither (a) nor (c).
(c) The catenary (curve made by a chain suspended from two points at the same level) .
10. For the funds gambled in Nevada during1994,
(a) Slot machines took in slightly less than half the total.
(b) The total exceeded $ 17,000,000,000.
(c) Slot machines took in slightly more than seventy percent of the total.
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1. When considering use of visual representation, which statement is true?
(a) Half of eleven is six (in one number-representation system).
2. Computer science design projects:
(c) Neither (a) nor (b) .
3. For a presentation:
(b) Prepared visuals are helpful.
4. We write weekly progress reports:
(c) To gain skill, gather results, and document authorship.
5. The general principle of computer science reporting is:
(c) A well-written report is a useful business tool.
6. Select the mathematical statement that is absolutely true in all situations.
(c) (1/2) + (1/3) = 5/6 or 2/5 or1/5.
7. The force in pounds on the other end of a string that has a one pound weight at one end, and was wrapped around a tree branch two complete times (angle 4p) is:
(c) Above a million.
8. Binary summation yields:
(b) 1001 + 1010 =10011
9. The hyperbolic cosine of a real value x is:
(c) The catenary (curve made by a chain suspended from two points at the same level) .
10. For the funds gambled in Nevada during1994,
(b) The total exceeded $ 17,000,000,000.