SWE 432: Design and Implementation of Software for the Web Assignment — Fall 2014 |
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This is the same assignment as assignment 2,
except you have to give a new principle.
Review your classmates' essays on Piazza to make sure
you do not repeat one of them.
For this homework you should work alone.
Review your SWE 205 notes.
Extract a General Usability Principle (GUP).
Your GUP should be as general as possible
and must be articulated in one sentence.
Examples are
"Don't make me think"
and
"Use radio boxes instead of dropdowns when possible."
Write a short (1 or 2 pages) essay about your principle.
Your essay should
You may not use the two example principles above.
Submit your report by posting it on Piazza in the folder "hw3".
The subject should be "Alternate assignment 3 - your name".
You can put the report up as an HTML file or formatted as PDF.
No word processor files. No handwriting.
Your file should have the name
yourfirstname-initial
followed by yourlastname-assignment3
(for instance, UPraphamontripong-assignment3.html
or UPraphamontripong-assignment3.pdf
).
Making your report available to me is your responsibility; if I cannot access your file then you will not get credit. Be sure to test access to your file before the due date.
The grading for this assignment will be as follows:
[Total: 20 points]
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