Description Points

Attendance

Attendance will be taken at the beginning of every class. For every class missed, 5 points will be deducted from the 25 points allocated for attendance.  You will be allowed to miss  1 class without penalty.

Individual Work

This project can be either be done individually or with a group of 2 students.  The group of 2 students can be across both 12:25pm and 1:50pm sections (1 student from each section).  If you choose to work with someone else, the total amount of points you can earn on the project will be 80 out of 100.

Project 1 – Mini Project

For the mini project, I would like you to develop code that focuses on extracting and/or cleaning data of your interest.  This data could be used in project 2 later in the semester. You can leverage data scraping, API connections or simply loading a csv file into your python program and then, you can use various methods to clean (refine) down the data to a usable form.  Then, you can save the file as a new csv for future use.

If you are taking on a large project for project 2, you could use this as phase 1 of the project.

At the end of the project, you will record a video of your screen sharing what you did and then submit it to canvas.

Project Proposal Document

The proposal will consist of:

1)   describing the context you are interested in (particular job or general field);

2)  what your program will do;

3)   a timeline setting some key milestones for you to meet the deadlines of the project; and

4)   identifying a few factors that may inhibit your ability to develop the solution to meet the project’s requirements.

You can simply create a word document and bullet your responses below each of the 4 components described above.  Somewhere between a half page and full page would suffice.

Interview Stream Video Submission

This component of the project is optional.  I have worked with the Career & Professional Development department to facilitate an opportunity for you to use Interview Stream as a mechanism to develop and refine a response to an interview question related to the project. If you want to participate in earning these points, you will need to follow the  instructions (coming soon) to logon and record a video of yourself responding to the interview question:

“Give me an example of how your MIS degree has prepared you for this position”

Your response should use this project as a tool to not only show how you are able to apply your IT skills to this specific position, but also how given an opportunity to develop a solution on any professional problem, you chose to develop a program in the context of this position.  The “context” can be narrowly or broadly scoped (e.g. auditor at KPMG versus financial analyst).  Either way, make sure there is a connection between the    context in the python solution and the context of the position you are referencing.

Please note: These videos will be reviewed by two members of the Career & Professional Development department.  They will provide customized feedback on your video, so please do not just “mail it in” .  Be as professional as possible and   look at this as an opportunity to get some constructive feedback related to your ability to bridge what you learn in class with obtaining employment somewhere in the future. This is not intended to discourage you from submitting a video but to motivate you to do your best.

Project 2 - Code and Video Presentation of your Program Two types of submissions are required for the project.

1)  A video that is recorded and submitted on blackboard that describes your code in somewhat detail.

A link will be made available for you to submit your video and code.  At this point, you will upload your video and submit a copy of your code. You need to record a video in which    you explain your code.  You must share your computer screen during the recording.  The recording should be between 4-7 minutes long.

Recording to the zoom cloud and then providing the link and password would be the

easiest.  Either way you choose your video should be just a few minutes long.  You should follow this structure:

-     Introduce the context you are focused on

-     Provide an overview of your program by running it and explaining its purpose.

-     Provide a more detailed description of your code by highlighting the core

concepts applied, or the new concepts you explored.   Basically, this is kind of  like the comments you put in your code, but an audio explanation of the major components of your code.

-     Provide me some brief feedback on the project and how I may improve it in the future.

Below is the rubric that will be used to grade the video presentation of your code. The core programming concepts I refer to are:

-     Branching/Boolean

-    Loops

-    Functions

-     Classes

-     List/Dictionaries/Tuples