| Q. How do I register in the course? |
A. You cannot self-register. You need to complete a contract and proposal and have it signed by a supervisor prior to being admitted to the course in the Fall. |
| Q. Am I allowed to suggest my own topic? |
A. Yes. You need to find a faculty member who is willing to supervise your project and there have to be other students interested to be in your group working on the problem. |
| Q. How big does a project need to be? |
A. Your project should involve approximately 120 hours of work (per student) in the Winter term. |
| Q. Do I really have to come to class once a week? |
A. No. The class meets once in the first week of term. For 2023-24, the date is announced later in the Fall. The class does not meet again until presentations in the last week of term (format and date TBA). |
| Q. How do the presentations work? |
A. Your group will give a poster presentation at the end of the term. In past years we have held the poster presentations in the Biosciences atrium or virtually. The format and evaluation of the presentations will be announced in late Fall. |
| Q. Can I choose which day of the last week I will do my presentation? |
A. No. Usually the presentation is held along with the Creative Computing Day for the School. |
| Q. Is the final report really due at the end of classes? |
A. Yes, it really is. However, if your supervisor gives you an extension for a few days, I don’t need to know about it. |
| Q. Who marks my work? |
A. Your supervisor marks your proposal, your work and your final report. Selected faculty members mark your poster presentation. |
| Q. Can I work on a project from outside the School of Computing? |
A. Yes. You need to find a faculty member in the School of Computing to co-supervise your project, and to ensure that it has enough computing science in it to make it a reasonable project for this course. |
| Q. Can I work on a project from outside Queen’s? |
A. Yes. You need to find a faculty member in the School of Computing to co-supervise your project, and to ensure that it has enough computing science in it to make it a reasonable project for this course. |
| Q. Can I work on a project from outside Canada? |
A. Yes. You need to find a faculty member in the School of Computing to co-supervise your project, and to ensure that it has enough computing science in it to make it a reasonable project for this course. |
| Q. Can I work on a project from Pluto? |
A. Don’t push me. It’s not even a planet. (courtesy of Bob Crawford) |
