What, A Senior Project?

Everyone loves their group senior project experience. What will it be like?

History

LMU has had a proud, 30+ year history of senior capstone courses — a group project in the fall, and an individual project in the spring.

Why?

You are taking this class not only to become a better person, but also to get prepared for a high-paying job in the software industry. By “get prepared for” we mean you are going to do things that prospective employers love to see that you have already done. And you are going to learn and use (both orally and in writing) the right vocabulary.

What Will We Do?

You are going to

Did you say “Documentation”?

But of course. You will document both:

Your project will be kept in a project notebook, which is really just the wiki for whichever repository you will be using. Here are some of the previous notebooks:

You’ll also be responsible for a meeting log. These can be fun. Here are some of the previous logs; as you can see, some groups did better than others: