Memphis Week of Code 2009
Welcome! The Memphis Week of Code is running again this year. From the 20th to the 24th of April (second week of mid–trimester break) two teams will battle it out to find out, once and for all, whether Computer Science really is better than Engineering! Each team will spending a week working together to produce a single application. At the end of the week, each team's program will be assessed and we will declare a winner.
This event is supported by the Elvis Research Group and the School of Engineering and Computer Science.
Fantastic People
We are looking for the top students at Vic studying computer science or software engineering at every level. If you find the projects offered in courses limited and boring, and would like a chance to work on some real, exciting problems, then this is where you want to be!
Each team in the event will be a mix of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th year/honours, and graduate students. This is your chance to work with other seriously smart people for a week: work on the problems your lecturers are into, rub shoulders with PhD/MSc students and teach your tutors a thing or two.
Fabulous Freedom
Here is your chance to work on a serious project without scope limitations. The limits here are your own abilities.
Each of the projects will use the XP development methodology to produce high–quality, robust and well–designed code. If you haven't used Agile before then this is a chance to learn why so many people are so excited about the opportunities it offers.
We will be aiming for a full iteration every day, something which takes months with other development methodologies. This means that you can expect to release five product versions in five days.
Each day the whole team will set goals for the day, so the pace you work at depends only on how much you got done the day before.
Fascinating Projects
Several Lecturers and PhD students are giving their support to the week by providing the project descriptions for the teams to work from. Each team will have two people involved in addition to the programming team members: one playing the role of the customer for the project and the other acting as a mentor. The customer will answer your questions about the requirements and critique your product. The project mentor will answer technical questions, provide advice, and support you in this exciting project.
Unlike previous years, this year the memphis week of code is a competition, so we will not be announcing the project until the competition starts.
Registration
Please email Stephen and indicate whether you support Computer Science or Engineering. If you are a first or second year student, please include an an application which shows off your skill as a programmer. This might be an assignment where you did something cool, or a personal project. Include a sentence on why your program is impressive.