For this semester, all individual project students and the overall project co-ordinator will have a number of hourly meetings aimed at improving the students' understanding and practice of generic project issues and applying them to their projects. A by-product of this will be fostering out-of-class support and a sense of community within the project student group. These sessions will also include the initial and final presentations (the latter will be longer than one hour though!). In these meetings, we will review and discuss the general principles of a topic, e.g. making good presentations, examine the work of previous project students, and evaluate and give feedback to each others' work in progress. Such a meeting series forms what is termed a Community of Practice.

Attendance at the meetings should be considered mandatory for MCOMP students (as it is required for the ACS accreditation for the MCOMP), and is highly encouraged for all other project students. You may also receive evaluations from your peers on for example your presentation, but these are for your feedback only. At each session, your suggestions on how to improve the current and future proposed sessions will be sought.

The weekly meeting time is Thursday 17:00-18:00 in the seminar room in RSISE. Meeting dates and topics scheduled for more than a week from the present date should be regarded as tentative, as it is subject to the CoP's wishes.

There is no single, recommended text book this semester, but we will rather take it by individual examples and according to the issues which you will bring up.

The sessions will begin in week 2; below is the schedule of the sessions for semester 2 2008, which we will use as a starting point.

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