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CSC 493: R01: Project Concept Proposal

As you know, the Project Concept Proposal is typically used to make a case for a project and it is frequently the first document to be created in the software development life cycle. You have begun your README.md for the initial part of your project concept proposal by drafting the following sections:

README.md

Do your best to improve these before next time, even though they are mostly just guesses at this point. See Awesome READMEs for a list of great README files.

Before next time you will complete your project concept proposal by improving your README.md and by adding a second file entitled concept.md to your Github repo. Include the following sections in concept.md:

Goals: The primary benefits and goals of the proposed project and how this project is intended to address the need/opportunity just described.

Context: A statement context for the proposed project including a statement of the need or opportunity which your project is intended to address. Including very brief descriptions of existing similar products and their utility and limitations and/or advantages and disadvantages. (Use hyperlinks

Novelty: The novelty of your solution and/or the enhancements you propose

Functionality: The expected project functionality and characteristics

Audience: Describe the intended audience of users and the main usability goals (i.e. how the expected users will benefit from your proposed project)

Challenges: The challenges that you anticipate encountering during this project’s development

Measures: An outline of project measures of success (how you will know when you have met the requirements.)

Motivation: Briefly describe your primary personal motivation for this choice of project. i.e. why is this important to you, why you have selected it, and how you hope/expect it will enhance your career.

Future Extensions: Possible extensions to the proposed project to be completed only if time permits

Other: (Optional section) To the above, you may add any additional items that you think will strengthen your proposal.

You may want to use MarkDown cheat sheet and MarkDown Live Demo.

Add a relative link to concept.md from README.md to concept.md. (A relative link uses just the file name and not http://…) Test this link and make sure it works.


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