The quick version
Below are links to each page of this diary, in order, plus the various documents I created along the way, excluding those that I feel should not be published here for one reason or another. If you have any problems or comments please email me (sjc74@cam.ac.uk). If you have visited this site I'd love to know, especially if you found it useful.
Pages (in order)
Introduction
Laureate's documents
Getting under way (Stage 1)
The proposal
The clock is ticking...
The mini project/module Course in Computer Science Projects (Stage 2)
The final project proposal (Stage 3)
The project specification (Stage 4)
My timetable
My project gets going
The literature search and review
Online surveys (creating and publicising)
Data Protection Act
Online surveys (analysis)
System design and project design document (Stage 5)
Implementation
Evaluation
The last chapter: Summary and conclusions
Final writing up (Stage 6)
The presentation (Stage 7)
Defence
Final marks
Graduation
Final thoughts
Documents
Documents are in Word format except where indicated otherwise.
Sample monthly report
The text of this site
The initial and final proposal - no changes made between them so are the same (Stages 1 and 3)
Mini project: (Stage 2)
Unfortunately I am unable to publish my mini project answers. I have been asked to leave them off, partly because working through the mini project is a vital part to understanding your project and partly to avoid plagarism accusations being made against anyone.
Project specification (Stage 4)
Surveys:
Survey of system administrators .aspx file
Survey of users .aspx file
Thank you page .aspx file
Project design (Stage 5) .rtf file
Dissertation:
Dissertation as a single file .rtf file. Some appendices I would prefer not to publish have been removed.
Preliminaries .rtf file
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Literature review .rtf file
Chapter 3: Survey analysis .rtf file
Chapter 4: System design
Chapter 5: Implementation
Chapter 6: Evaluation
Chapter 7: Summary and conclusions
References
Bibliography
Appendix A: Data Protection Act
Appendices B & C: These contain the data from the surveys, which for data protection and privacy reasons I cannot publish
Appendix D: Perl scripts I won't publish these here - they go on for pages...and if they were any use to anyone else there might be a danger of plagarism accusations
Appendix E: The system in action Screen shots - I won't publish them here for similar reasons to B and C, plus they are very big
Appendix F: Sponsor's letter I won't publish this here