CS347 Advanced Software Design
Monday, 7 April 2025

+ Wednesday
- More project refinement
- Intro to docker
- We're not done with git, but we're taking a breather

+ [20 minutes] Meet with your team
- Short list of project ideas (2-4)
- Pick the most likely couple ideas and talk about questions like:
    - How big is this project? Too big? Too small?
    - How big is its "minimal viable product" feature set?
    - Do you need data? How hard will it be to get?
    - Are dev and testing setups complicated?
    - Does this project help you learn what you want to learn?
    - Does this project decompose into modules so work can proceed in parallel?
    - What are you most excited about with this project?
    - What worries you most about this project?

- Take notes. I'll ask for a writeup due Wednesday.

+ Discussion all together
- Effective teams and barriers to team happiness
    - Smart financial advisor
        - data entry: spending events
        - data: known spending patterns of other people/models
        - automate comparisons, advice
        - dashboard summary, advice, enter new data,...
        - questions
            - data entry is hard
            - OCR???
            - don't understand the comparison to other people
            - ML is too much for the available time
            - art skills
    - VST plugin for music production
        - adding different instruments
        - adding synth elements
        - questions
            - niche user base
            - how hard is it to code the features you want?
            - existing software and libraries; how to get the tools you need?
            - 
    - Chess, maybe online, maybe distributed
        - questions
            - how to do multi-player
            - UI design and implementation
            - coding the chess rules
            - 
- Your project ideas and questions