Start this assignment right after class on Tuesday the 15th!

This assigment asks again for a short written document. More writing will be required later in this course, and more still when you go to work in the software industry. So learn to write.

• Anything worth writing is worth writing well. A first draft is just that, and rarely well written, so plan on several drafts, with editing and rewriting from one to the next. You will discover that when you rewrite you improve the ideas as well as the way you express them. Don't plan to dash something off just in time to turn it in.
• I expect grammatical English, free of spelling errors. Spelling and grammar checking tools in your word processor can help - use them - but they can't catch all the errors. If you're in doubt, have a friend proofread your work.
• If your native language isn't English I will take that into account. I understand how hard you must work to read and write in a new language. I'm sure I wouldn't do as well in yours as you do in mine. Make the writing assignments in this course an opportunity to improve your English.

Write a few paragraphs responding to each of the six possible projects we have heard about:
• VisitMe - facebook (Paul English)
• STUDDI (Nick Anzalone)
• IPhone DB query (Kevin Osborne)
• Agile dashboard (Jonathan Krentel)
• Voicewize catalog (Barb Arboleda)
• Evolution tree (Brian White)

Fill out the project ratings form.

The questions on the form suggest some of the things you might want to address in your paragraphs. But do write paragraphs, don't just use the questions as if they were items on a test.

In class we will decide (collectively) which of these we will take on. Be prepared to contribute to that discussion!