Final Year Projects: The Malaysian Experience

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Final Year Projects The Malaysian Experience

• Wong Chek Yoon
• Microsoft Malaysia

.NET Curriculum Workshop, 24th August, 2003
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Content

• Background/context
• Constraints
• Sketch of overall plan
• Faculty .NET Essentials Workshops
• All Students .NET Lecture Series
• Final Year Students .NET Drop in Days
• Fresh graduates broker employment opportunities
• Why .NET for final year projects?

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Background/context

• Visiting Fellow at Faculty of IT, Multimedia
  University academic year 2002/2003.
• Realisation MS Research, University Relations,
  Academic Developer, MSDNAA, MS Press produce
  lots of academic relevant resources
• Focused on .NET for final year student projects
• Other activities
• Visits/lectures at other local universities
• Create awareness of .NET info/materials for
  teaching RD (including .NET Shared Source)
• Acknowledgments
• Thank you MMU, USM, UiTM, UM, UTAR, Uniten, KDU,
  APIIT

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Constraints/challenges

• Cannot use formal contact hours for lectures
• Faculty and students new to .NET
• Limited time (self)

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Overall plan

• Faculty
• .NET overview (academic viewpoint)
• 2 days hands-on workshop (.NET Essentials)
• Resources
• Academic Resource Kit CD
• Other CDs selected videos from MSR .NET Crash
  Courses, and from MSDN .NET Shows
• Students
• .NET Lecture Series (1st 2nd semester)
• .NET Drop in Days (open lab drop-ins)
• Students get to ask questions self-learning of
  practical aspects of .NET via hands-on labs.
• misc invited lectures
• e.g. SQL Server 2000, career talks.
• Broker employment opportunities with Microsoft
  partners

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Topics covered in .NET Essentials
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Topics covered in .NET Lecture Series
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Why .NET for Final Year Student Projects?

• Academically rigorous topics which turn out to be
  relevant to Comp Sci and IT curriculum
• OO Programming
• Web Application Development
• Distributed Computing
• Security authentication/authorisation
• Interesting, new cool technologies
• Smart Device Applications (PDAs, Mobile Internet)
• XML Web Services
• Embedded systems
• Acquire ready-to-go industry relevant skills

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The year in pictures
.NET Lectures, Drop-in labs, etc
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Results

• Over 70 students completed their Final Year
  Projects using .NET (MMU, USM, UM)

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Sampling of project titles
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Sampling
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Samping
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Some more Final Year project ideas

• Build Mobile Web and Pocket PC based solutions
  using Smart Device Extensions for Visual Studio
  .NET
• Use .NET Speech SDK for developing speech-enabled
  web applications
• Grid Computing using Web Services
• Peer-to-peer computing
• Web Services and GXA standards, and extensions

• Build hosting system for student web services,
  featuring online development and usage metering
• Security topics authentication, authorisation,
  encryption
• OS topics graphical visualisation of garbage
  collection behaviour
• Graphics programming using DirectX v.9 (with
  .NET)
• Video streaming topics, digital rights management

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Resources (1)

• http//www.jati.net.my/cywong/

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Resources (2)

• http//docs.msdnaa.net/ark_new3.0/cd3/npage.htm

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Resources (3)

• http//msdnaa.net/

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Resources (4)

• http//research.microsoft.com/Collaboration/Univer
  sity/Europe/Events/dotnetcc/Version4

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Resources (5)

• http//research.microsoft.com/collaboration/univer
  sity/

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QA and Discussions
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Backup Slides
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Teaching Ideas

• .NET Framework
• A Virtual Object System Development Platform
• Of relevance to
• Component Technology
• Object Oriented Programming
• Web Technology
• Distributed Computing
• .NET Compact Framework
• For smart devices and embedded systems
• Of relevance to
• Microprocessor systems Interfacing
• Control Systems