CS 4500 Submission Guidelines, Spring 2009

Project Bid

Date assigned: Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Date due: Friday, January 16, 2009, by 12 midnight
This time deadline is very important!! Do not submit late!!

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Format, content, and related documents

• Prepare the project bids using something like the description in the Texas documentation standards, following the Texas general formatting and layout guidelines and the specific guidelines for contents of the Project Bid Document.  Each bid requires a separate document.
• For examples and ideas, consult the Texas table of bids on the page of Texas documentation from past teams.

Naming and location of the bid document

• Set up a project web page.
• The bid documents should be named bid1, bid2, bid3 (with appropriate extensions).

Submitting the project bid

In order to turn in your project bids:

• Electronic version:
  • Your BID documents should be located in the appropriate location within your project directory.
  • By midnight, send an email message to tch, with a Cc: to the team mailing list, giving the full URL of your team's bid documents. Please include the "http://" part of the URL, since this allows some mailers to launch the page by a simple double click. Do not send any attachments!!
  • Use the following subject line on your message:

CS4500bid: <Team Name> Project bids

where you replace <Team Name> by your team's name. Be precise with spacing and punctuation. (There is only one space after the colon and one space after the team number)

This deadline is especially important since it is on the critical path to giving all teams their project assignments. IF all bids are in on time, then by the second week of classes each team can be assigned a project. The goal is to reach informal agreement by the end of week 2.