This is the first formal meeting for our group.
The main topics we discussed in our group are:
1. Assessments of the projects
2. The design and construction of our website & individual blogs
3. The functionalities we need to cover in our program.
There're three assessments in autumn session, which are personal diaries (blogs), preliminary project documents and project website.
Personal diaries are due in week 6 and hence should be the priority of every group member. Every one should set up his own blog as soon as possible and tell me the address of the blog, which will be embedded in our group website. The contents of the blogs should be updated at least once a week and are supposed to show the weekly individual activity.
The website will be built using Google Site. It will be a simple site which covers all the basic and necessary information of our project.
The functions were talked in several parts.
In terms of general concepts, we hope to build a software that helps people to learn how to drive, to achieve all basic theory knowledge as soon as possible. But we don't want to write a collection of multiple-choice questions, which is boring. So we hope to add some interactive tests or questions which tests users' knowledge by assessing how users are going to interact with real events that could occur in real life. The way they react to incidents determines how well they behaved.
So this would require extra knowledge on 3D modelling, Graphical Interface design and Database implementation.
Although we don't plan to build a collection of questions, road rules are still the core of our project. So we need someone to take care of the traffic regulations in NSW.
After the discussion with our supervisor, we found that additional functions can be added, such as analysis of most frequent mistakes made by every user. The administrator would have extra privilege to access special features like altering questions and print analysis report.
So it came up to a decision that...
1. The whole project will basically written in C++
2. The graphical interface will be built using QT, and the choice of IDE is up to each group member
3. Jeff will take care of the Database part, and
4. Allen will take care of the traffic regulations part, and
5. Henry and I are responsible for designing the fuctionalities in detail, and the website.
6. The group meeting time is 11:30 am every Tuesday.
