CSE P 501 Project Report

Project Code

In fairness to everyone, all projects are due by the cutoff given in the final part of the assignment. Your report should describe the project that you turned in by the deadline (see next section for report details). However, there is always the "last" bug. If you want to make some additional changes to the code and discuss them in your report and at the meeting, we may be able to take these into account in evaluating the project, particularly if the changes are small bug fixes. However, large changes to the project after the deadline, while they may be very useful for your learning, cannot fairly be evaluated as if they were turned in on time.

Be sure to turn in the complete sources to your project, as well as test programs and samples of assembly code generated by your compiler. You should include a brief readme file in the files that you turn in (not in the report) with instructions about how to build and run your compiler.

Report

Please write a brief (a couple of pages should be more than enough) summary of your project describing:

• What language features work (arithmetic expressions, if/while, object creation, dynamic dispatch, arrays, etc.).
• What language features weren't implemented, don't work, or don't quite work.
• A summary of the test programs you've tried and the results.
• Any extra features or language extensions supported by your compiler (additional Java language constructs not part of basic MiniJava, extra error or semantics checking, source information or other goodies in the assembly language program, optimizations or analysis, etc.)
• How work was divided among team members. If you split up the work, who was responsible for what, or if you worked together on everything, a description of how that went.

Your report should discuss the entire project, not just the code generation part, so we can use it to help evaluate the overall outcome. Bring your writeup with you to your project meeting. If you do finish it in advance, you can send it in using the regular course drop box. This is optional, but allows us a chance to review your report before the meetings.

Meeting

Plan on meeting with the instructor during finals week for 20 minutes to discuss your project. Meetings are scheduled at Microsoft on Tuesday, December 15, and at UW on Thursday, December 17. We'll use the regular classrooms for meetings. If neither of those times can be made to work, it may be possible to schedule other times; contact the instructor if this is a problem.

Please bring a copy of your report with you. This isn't a formal presentation (i.e., don't waste time preparing a PowerPoint presentation or anything like that). If at all possible, everyone in your group should be at the meeting.

That's it!  Have a great holiday break!