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Corning Community College

Systems Programming


Specifications for Opus Development

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Objective

To indicate the requirements for the Opus that each student will be created as part of their educational journey through the semester.

Monthly Evaluation

For each full month of the semester:

Your Opus will be subject to evaluation by the following criteria:

Sections

There are five sections of your Opus, delineated as follows:

  1. Introduction/Overview: Who are you, why are you here, etc. This section is meant to provide a personalization of your Opus. [This section must have a title, optionally a subtitle, a minimum of 192 words describing you or your purpose, and an appropriately sized image]
  2. Part1: This will correspond to the efforts during the first full month. It has the following sub-sections:
    • Topics: the (at least) 12 topics you will be identifying, defining, and demonstrating.
    • Objectives: the (at least) 3 course objectives you will be identifying, defining, and measuring.
    • Experiments: the (at least) 3 experiments you will be performing and optionally retesting.
  3. Part2: Your efforts during the second full month will be located here. It has the following sub-sections:
    • Topics: the (at least) 12 topics you will be identifying, defining, and demonstrating.
    • Objectives: the (at least) 3 course objectives you will be identifying, defining, and measuring.
    • Experiments: the (at least) 3 experiments you will be performing and optionally retesting.
  4. Part3: The third full month will be contained in this section. It has the following sub-sections:
    • Topics: the (at least) 12 topics you will be identifying, defining, and demonstrating.
    • Objectives: the (at least) 3 course objectives you will be identifying, defining, and measuring.
    • Experiments: the (at least) 3 experiments you will be performing and optionally retesting.
  5. EoCE: Finally, the EoCE will wrap up your explorations of the semester. Its composition will likely be similar to the above parts, but is subject to change. More details as it becomes available.

Word Count

Each Opus section, with the exception of the Introduction/Overview, must comply with the following specifications:

Experiments

As indicated above, each month you are to undertake a number of original experiments in pursuit of knowledge related to the course; these experiments must be conducted utilizing the scientific method.

  1. Define the question you wish to answer
  2. Gather information and resources (observe)
  3. Create and state a hypothesis
  4. Describe the experiment
  5. Perform the experiment
  6. Collect data
  7. Analyze data
  8. Conclusions (interpret the data generated and infer conclusions that serve as a starting point for new hypothesis or experiment)
  9. Retest (for our purposes, you will only be retesting the experiments of others in the class; you cannot retest one of your own experiments and count it as a retest.. if you retest, you're merely enhancing your own experiment)

Sample Experiment

To aid you in performing experiments in the course, please reference the following sample experiment following this method and formatted to the Opus specifications:

Template

The template (a copy of which has been already provided to you) for the semester Opus is accessible here:

Feel free to view the wiki source and copy sections to supplement your local copy.