If you are concerning about the technology used, you are probably right. This 4th year project didn’t intend to strength students’ coding skills, it focus on giving students a chance to learn how software is developed in a real world. Such as, how to transfer the info collected in the interviews into requirement specifications; how to make design decision with ambiguites; how to set priorites for the tasks and how to schdule the tasks; how to deal with the changes of requirements during the inplementaion; how to work together as a team; and many other howtos.

To be honest, less than 15% of the time was spend on writing codes for this project, and I have to admit the file system I implemented with B+ tree in my 2nd year was more complicated than this 4th year project if the only concern is the complexity of coding.

By the way, for a real word project, I tend to use simple rather than complicate technology, as long as the customer’s requirements could be met. If it were possible, we would like to find a way to make our project as simple as a first year assignment.
Yang Lu

Greg expressed some concern at the small number of U of T students present. C’mon, kids — it’s almost summer, some of you a graduating, and right on campus was this great opportunity to see what’s going on in the working world and meet potential employers.

This could be because students who don’t know Greg personally were not told. There’s a weekly email sent out to all Computer Science students and it did not include information about this event.

Sadly since most students don’t have any initiative, combined with the fact that it is right at the beginning of exams, you get the results you did: just a handful of students.

Cheers.

Would a Java based online message board system be considered a 4th year project at UofT?? I didn’t see the demo and can’t seem to find any details but this sounds like a 2nd year assignment (at best) to me.