ScienceChallenges Design Project Presentation

ScienceChallenges organizes awesome challenges for students.
The presentation was held for the Design Project as part of the curriculum for Computer Science @ University of Twente.

Transcript

1. ScienceChallenges www.sciencechallenges.nl vrijdag 21 juni 13
2. Who we are Bram, Marcel, Koen and Bas Started second half of semester vrijdag 21 juni 13
3. Design Project What did we do? Online platform To organize and promote Challenges for students vrijdag 21 juni 13
4. A while back... First year Computer Science students Vision: innovate education Awesome challenges vrijdag 21 juni 13
5. What is a Challenge? Practical, fun, creative. Often an (inter)national competition. About half a semester. vrijdag 21 juni 13
6. First Pilot We organized 6 challenges during a semester Great success. It’s fun. vrijdag 21 juni 13
7. Next step Allow everyone to organize Make it easy vrijdag 21 juni 13
8. Goal Design Project Build a platform for these challenges. vrijdag 21 juni 13
9. Requirements For the design project. vrijdag 21 juni 13
10. Requirements Good workflow For the design project. vrijdag 21 juni 13
11. Requirements Good workflow Maintainability & Quality For the design project. vrijdag 21 juni 13
12. Requirements Good workflow Maintainability & Quality Polished product For the design project. vrijdag 21 juni 13
13. Workflow Remote & asynchronous development vrijdag 21 juni 13
14. Workflow vrijdag 21 juni 13
15. Maintainability & Quality Behavior driven development Peer reviewing Continuous Integration vrijdag 21 juni 13
16. BDD with Cucumber vrijdag 21 juni 13
17. Peer Review vrijdag 21 juni 13
18. Continuous Integration On Travis: On Github: vrijdag 21 juni 13
19. Coverage Keep codebase tested. vrijdag 21 juni 13
20. Polished Product Use sensible design frameworks Design around User flow. Inspiration and details. vrijdag 21 juni 13
21. User Flow User Redirect to Google Auth User wants to login Pick Account Redirect to dashboard G oogle U niversity "Company"/"Other" Login Enter email Enter password Company/Other vrijdag 21 juni 13
22. Inspiration Kickstarter Challenges Portal vrijdag 21 juni 13
23. What to build? vrijdag 21 juni 13
24. What to build? We know it when we have it. vrijdag 21 juni 13
25. What to build? We know it when we have it. Agile Development vrijdag 21 juni 13
26. Key aspects Agile Basic functionality. Iterate on feedback. Always have a deployable product. vrijdag 21 juni 13
27. What did we build? vrijdag 21 juni 13
28. What did we build? Demo vrijdag 21 juni 13
29. User tests Valuable feedback No major design flaws Love makes blind vrijdag 21 juni 13
30. Example result Authentication Idea: One click Login Solution: Google Apps OAuth vrijdag 21 juni 13
31. Solution vrijdag 21 juni 13
32. Solution vrijdag 21 juni 13
33. Results Useful! Easy fixes People like it vrijdag 21 juni 13
34. Results Useful! Easy fixes People like it “Very clear and organized.” “Cool initiative!” “Easy to join a challenge” “Wow, mac’s are annoying” vrijdag 21 juni 13
35. Lessons learned vrijdag 21 juni 13
36. Lessons Reviewing is a must BDD is hard Working in the same room helps vrijdag 21 juni 13
37. Is it finished? We have a working, deployable product. Can be improved. Starts in september for CS. vrijdag 21 juni 13
38. We want you. To organize awesome challenges and spread the word! vrijdag 21 juni 13
39. www.sciencechallenges.nl github.com/boersmamarcel/challengesplatform Questions? vrijdag 21 juni 13