CSCI E-168

Assignment 5 and the description of the Final Project are ready: http://e168f07.7fff.com/private/assignments/

A few highlights:

Due dates –

Dec. 9: Due date for final project proposal if not based on ChildCare Co-op. The instructions in the download provide information on this. The key is that your project should be similar in complexity to ChildCare Co-Op, and the proposal should be similar to the writeup for ChildCare Co-Op (http://e168f07.7fff.com/assignments/assignments-4-5-and-6-overview/).

Dec. 16: Due date for Assignment 5.

Dec. 19: Due date for an additional “feature” if you choose to extend ChildCare Co-op but want to do something besides the choices for additional features.

Jan. 19: Due date for final project. Super “drop dead” due date: Jan. 21. If for some reason you have thoughts of an extension, remember to review the rules for “EXT” grades, and keep in mind that there is a lot of red tape around dates, getting signatures, etc. (http://extension.harvard.edu/2007-08/register/policies/grades/)

For assignment 5, your task is to write some missing controller actions and make dynamic some views that are currently “static” (just raw HTML with canned non-dynamic data). There is a rather long discussion of all of the controllers and what needs to be done for each one.

In the e-mail to the group I included a URL to a “reference” implementation. I will provide that in lecture if for some reason you’re reading this but didn’t get the e-mail.

Note as well that I added some validations and convenience methods to the models, so you will probably want to use the ones that come with this download rather than relying on the models you created for Assignment 4.

The download also includes the way we wrote the original associations, as well as solutions for the finders. Note that the tests for many of the finders allow for multiple solutions, so in some cases you will see multiple solutions inside of an Array (in lib/finders.rb).

There will be a few tweaks forthcoming: A very few tests, and I want to fix the stylesheets for IE; otherwise, this is the blueprint for the rest of your work for the semester.

Enjoy!