Published December 18th, 2015, in Education. Hampton University CSC 404 Software Design & Development I Fall 2015 --- FVCproductions https://fvcproductions.com

1. WeylandCorp
Our analysis of Kings & Queens, Dice, and ASTRO.

2. Our Team
PM
Frances
2nd in Command
Brandon
Writer
Charles
Developer
Justin
Writer
Jordan

3. ASTRO
Our choice of project.
Frances

4. Positives
Better Dev Setup
Looking at their software,
it’s clear that Astro used
Git, Bootstrap, JS - which
are popular components in
modern industry practices
for software development.
Compared to the other
projects, Astro does this
slightly better.
Improvements
Organizing the files so
that the modularization
of the app increases and
it’s easier for someone
else to look at it and
contribute.

5. Positives
Formatting overwhelmed
me at first, since at some
points, it lacked
appropriate spacing.
Improvements
All throughout their docs,
ASTRO was clear and
comprehensive in
detailing their project.
Documentation

6. Positives
They use flat icons to
represent different states
in the application and do
this wonderfully.
Design
The app is not
responsive, meaning it
doesn’t look the same on
various screen sizes.
Improvements

7. Negatives
Lack of organization
In industry, their project
probably couldn’t be
properly contributed to
due to the lack of
organization in file
structure/hierarchy.
Modularization is
extremely important for
future scalability.
Solution
The screenshot on the
left shows an ideal
project setup, with a
separate folder for
frontend and backend
components, tests, and
seed data. There is also
bower, gulp, and npm
related startup files.

8. Negatives
Unlike DICE, Astro failed
to deploy their software
anywhere, making the
possibility of users
actually using it
intangible.
Not deployed
Clean up code and then
deploy using Heroku or
GitHub pages.
Solution

9. Challenges We Face with ASTRO
Modularity
Cleaning up the code
While ASTRO did use
modern technologies, it
failed to organize the
structure of its code so
that contributions could
be easily made.
Quiz/Award System
Improve UI, Add Content
I’m not entirely sure why
a user got an award or
not because of the poor
user interface. In addition
to having to improve the
design, some tests lack
any content.
Deployment
Increase conversion
In order for users to
actually be able to use
this app, it needs to be
hosted somewhere.
Users shouldn’t have to
download anything!

10. Dice
Overview of Project
Brandon & Justin

11. Positives
Login Features
The login feature is
effective, the lost
password feature works
and only hampton emails
can be used with the
login page. Forgot
password feature also
works seamlessly
allowing user to reset
password quickly.
Improvements
The design of the login is
bland and could see
some improvements
such as a theme using
CSS or javaScript.

12. Positives
DICE explained their product in
the documents and included
diagrams that explained the
implementation well.
Documents also gave great
description of technologies
used.
Documentation
Format was confusing in some
spots as well as structure.
They could both be improved
on.
Improvement

13. Negatives
Gamification
The application is just
comprised of multiple
choice questions. With
little to no color and no
theme the application
feels more like an online
test than it does a game.
Improvements
Add themes, colors, and
different challenges to
make the application
more interactive and fun
to use.

14. Negatives
Accessibility
Week one is the only
week accessible on the
home page and when all
questions are answered
for week one there is no
way to advance to the
next weeks challenge.
Improvements
Allow all of the weeks’
challenges to be
accessible to the user
along with adding
different types of
challenges.

15. Negatives
Unfinished Pages
The leaderboard and
profile page were not
implemented correctly
and have no usable
function. Some avatars
on profile page do not
appear. Appearance on
documents differs from
actual program.
Improvements
Create a functional
leaderboard that tracks the
user's points by username,
profile and avatar. Also
create a user page where
users are able to send
messages to other
students and instructors
while also being able to
track progress.

16. Challenges We Face with DICE
Gamification Unfinished Pages Documentation
Although there is a
leaderboard that brings
in the element of
competition, the
application feels more
like an online quiz than it
does a game.
The login screen works
perfectly fine however,
the design of the
application is bland with
little color to no color.
The profile page has no
functionality, and the
home page’s
accessibility is limited.
The information needs to
be reordered so the
requirements document
contains “What”, the
functional specification
contains “How”, and the
design specification
should be detailed
enough to code from it
without further research.

17. Kings and
Queens
Overview of Project
Jordan & Charles

18. Overview of Kings and Queens
According to the Kings and
Queens documents, the aim
of this project is to increase
the passing rate of students
in CSC 151 and also the
holding rate of people
within the computer
science/ computer
information systems major.
The software is a game that
will use trivia and
questionnaire to help
students in 151 have a
better learning experience.
This trivia game will be
based off of internet
connection .

19. King and Queens Overview continued
This interface is used from
two different perspectives
which is one from the
student and the other from
the teacher. The student
uses this for review while the
teacher checks grades and
releases announcements on
the site. This site uses an
account from the student to
track their progress thru
there Hampton emails.
Software used to implement
this project:
-Firebase
-Adobe Illustrator
-Adobe Flash
-Adobe Captivate
-cPanel
-Javascript
-HTML/CSS
-Actionscript
-JQuery
-Photoshop
-Fireworks

20. Positives
Dev Tools
The use of front end and
back end libraries such
as Firebase, JQuery, and
Bootstrap to facilitate the
application.
Improvements
Their files should be
structured in a hierarchy
so that it is easier to
locate a specific file
which increases
modularity.

21. Positives
Presentation
By looking at the Kings
and Queens Presentation
we could tell that a lot of
effort was put into the
production of the
presentation.
Improvements
This can be improved by
making sure the demo
for the presentation is
active and running even
months after the demo
was presented because
the website for the
project does not work.

22. Negatives
Looking at their documentation, it’
s clear that K&Q was very
thorough in their descriptions of
their product. However, their
explanations were a bit lengthy.
Design
Formatting their documentation
so that it is easier to comprehend
and more and less overwhelming.
Improvements

23. Negatives
Log In Failure
During our attempts to
log into the StuckInCSC
game, the application
failed to launch. The
website would not load
nor deploy thus
indicating that testing for
this website was non
existent
Improvements
Actually deploy it to a
server that is maintained
so that there is no
possibility of failure.

24. Thanks for listening!
Any questions, comments, or
concerns?