Prototype Deliverable Comments

Team: Yakko Wakko and Dot Dayplan

Grade: (96 out of 100)

The following is a breakdown of the grading.

Document presentation (5 out of 5)

Important points:

Organization: OK
Document author: OK
use of English: OK

Comments:

Project Description of Target System (5 out of 5)

Comments:

Installation manual (17 out of 20)

installation instructions: I tried following your instructions to get my own dayplan schedule to be shown, but I cannot get it to work. I think there is probably some information missing in your installation, or it is incorrect or this functionality does not exist and your documentation should be modified.
Software available: No. You still have not put a link to the applet anywhere on this page. I received the URL from Roy, but that is inadequate.
Target platform described: I believe you said you cannot get it to run in Netscape 2.0, but you don't mention either a browser or appletviewer to run your application.

Comments:

User guide (18 out of 20)

directions geared toward user: Yes, you have adopted a very good format for writing this manual. Unfortunately, some of the instructions are not clearly described.
supporting information (screen dumps, access to prototype): OK
clarity: see below

Comments: I do not understand why you have shown different blocked out colors for the Schedule display window and this is not explained. Also, I am very confused by how you include new users. You refer to an Add User button in the User Guide, but the prototype has an Edit Users button. So far, I have only seen a single user being shown.

Guide to the source code (18 out of 20)

description of how code is structured in file system (or equivalent level of detail): It's all there, but so is a lot of other stuff that probably shouldn't be there.
clarity: Hard to decipher

Comments: You need to prune a lot of the information in here and present the information that is important to your applet alone.

Live demonstration (33 out of 30)

Attendance: all present
evidence of running system: Yes, and it was rather impressive
Discussion: good discussion

Comments: Please enter the Java contest as private individuals. I would like to work with you to improve some of the features of your tool before it is sent off. I think there are some simple things you can do to make it a lot more usable and useful. Top priority is to get the multiple users feature working and to have a list of several people that you can use as sample individuals for demo sake. Next priority should be to allow someone to create a scheduled activity, even if it cannot be saved to a file. I think the shortcuts to beginning of a quarter are unnecessary, but you should put in a feature to jump to a specific date. Also, the previous date button is very difficult to understand.

This document will not be officially regraded. If you do make significant changes to this document, then please indicate that when you turn in your final notebook and I will judge then whether you deserve a grade adjustment.