For each project at your table:
    Pitch the project. Basic idea, key user stories.

    Feedback
    -- Good idea?
    -- What features would be most important?
    -- What features would be coolest?
    -- Red flags, danger zones?
    -- Ideas about technical solutions to hard parts.
    -- Whatever else (constructive) comes to mind

What could Jeff do in class to help?
-- Sample programs?
-- Lab exercises?
-- Lectures on language features, tools,...?
-- ??

ActionListener in Swing, Action vs. ActionListener
Storing images in MySQL
Lab session, work on the projects, ask each other questions
Accounts/login/passwords, etc.
Different pages per user
Javascript intro
Lab office hours





Fred Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month" Chapter 9, 1975

"Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables,
and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your
tables, and I won't usually need your flowchart; it'll
be obvious."

Eric Raymond, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" 1997:

(Rephrasing Brooks)
"Show me your code and conceal your data structures,
and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your data
structures, and I won't usually need your code; it'll
be obvious."

Also Raymond, related:
"Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better
than the other way around."

Guy Steele, a web essay, 2002:
"Show me your interfaces, the contracts for your methods,
and I won't usually need your field declarations and class
hierarchy; they'll be irrelevant."

How to put these ideas to use when you start a project?
Think about your abstract data types, and ask yourself
some questions:
-- What Things are at the heart of my project?
-- What operations should those things support?
-- In terms of those Things and their operations,
what do I want my main program to look like?

# Sort of like this
options = getCommandLineOptions(sys.argv)
itunesLibrary = ITunesLibrary(options['filename'])

action = options['action']
if action == 'toprated':
    tracks = getTopRatedTracks(options, itunesLibrary)
    for track in tracks:
        print track.title, track.rating
elif action == ...:
    ...

# Which leads me to need
class Track
    def __init__...
       self.title = ''
       self.rating = 0.0
    etc.

class ITunesLibrary:
    # These two methods support the "iteration protocol"
    # in Python, so I can do a for-loop over an ITunesLibrary
    def __iter__(...):
       ...
    def next(self):
       ...

def getTopRatedTracks(options, itunesLibrary, n):
    topRatedTracks = []
    for track in itunesLibrary: #**** I NEED ITERATION IN ITunesLibrary
       do something
    topRatedTracks.sort(trackRatingCmp)
    return topRatedTracks[0:n]