Black Lab 'B' - Week 3 Update

BLACK LAB 'B' - WEEK 3 UPDATE

Overview

Accomplished This Week

• Completed Functionality and Design Proposal Reports
• Assigned Jason Craft to VP Software, to handle all XML file questions, concerns, and formatting before handing them over to the Chair for integration
• Completed basic framework and assets for game
• Agreed on a new method for marking the Open House prototype as a lab, rather than as individual tables
• Finalized XML file formatting, distributed pre-formatted XML document to all tables
  

To Be Accomplished Next Week

• Complete all subject material content for the game (questions, help files)
• Complete game package (assets, framework)
• Prepare transfer package
• Begin preparing for Open House Presentation
  

Table Progress

David's Group

Table: B6
Topic: Lessons 24-27

Accomplished This Week

• Completed Functionality and Design Proposal

• Completed basic game control structures in flash
• Designed basic game assets
• Began working on subject material for lessons 24-27
  

To Be Accomplished Next Week

• Complete all game assets
• Complete all game control structures
• Complete game package
• Test import functions for XML files
  

Gavin's Group

Table:B5

Topic: Lessons 20-23

Accomplished This Week

• Final XML format decided on
• Question production started
• Questions for section 20 finished as a group
• To improve production rate GED sections 20-23 photo copied so that is can be used as home for question generation
• Questions for sections 21-23 started

To Be Accomplished Next Week

• All minimum of 15 questions per section completed by monday
• Have all questions converted in to xml format
• Write help file pdf's

Stephen's Group

Table: B1

Topic: Lessons 1-5

Accomplished This Week

• Completed work on functionality report
• Initiated development of questions, will do a set of 8 for sets of 1, 2, and 3 digits.
• Split tasks amongst group members, and defined standard of quality and parameters.
• Designed plan for help files and distributed workload.
• XML formatting was redesigned, Jason has taken part of lab workload, thus we redistributed the group workload to compensate

To Be Accomplished Next Week

• Have questions completed.
• Have portion of help files written.
• Jason will compile questions and submitted work.

Christine's Group

Table: B-2

Topic: Lessons 6-10

Accomplished This Week

• The functionality report was handed in
  
• each team member read and understood their assigned lessons
  
• Halfway through creating questions per lessons
• Danial was assigned to do the formatting for the xml file to be handed in to Jason and to be compiled by David
  

To Be Accomplished Next Week

• Finish all questions along with the solutions (minimum of 15 questions per lesson) and send them to Danial
  
• Danial will finish formatting all the questions into an XML file
• Each team member will create a pdf file on how to solve such questions in their assigned Lesson
  

Brandon's Group

Table: B-3

Topic: Lessons 11-15

Accomplished This Week
- Completed and handed in Functionality Report
- Assigned and worked on questions
- Chris started XML files

To Be Accomplished Next Week
- Finish XML files and send to Jason
-include needed images.
- Finish help files and send to David

Jesse's Group

Table: B-4

Topic: Lessons 16-19

Accomplished This Week

• Worked on the functionality Report and Design Proposal.
• Scheduled group meetings to complete the Report.
• Submitted the Report at the beginning of the long lab.
• Began working on the questions for our designated sections.
• The chapters were divided in the sense that each person does at least one question from each lesson.
• As for the designation of the help files, each person does one for each lesson.

To Be Accomplished Next Week

• Completion of the questions in XML format.
• Completion of the help files.
• Submission of our XML and PDF documents to David for the final product.

Figure 1: Current Schedule Progress