I was just talking to a person the other day, and heard a story about their final project.

The entire program was given the day of the finals (knowing that people had other finals that day, and possibly the rest of the week).

The program itself, if done for resale, would take 1-3 months for development (actually am doing a similar type of thing now, albeit more complex).


So I was just curious as to anyone here that took/heard of a final programming exam that seemed to be.... too much or too complex given the time granted.

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Well, I had a final project class for a semester, where the students would have to get into groups and make a personal banking program that would allow a number of users to have a computer check book, log for their savings accounts and retirement accounts, loans, and their portfolio, as well as have loan and savings calculators and other features.  It needed to be database connected, require user logins, and the database had to be protected from unauthorized entry.

Also, we had to do documentation every day, as well as a ton of other written/typed documents regarding the program.

We had 10 five hour classes to do this project in, and we had to wait until halfway before we actually began programming and developing the database.  And, since I was in a small class (3 people), we had one group, and I was the best programmer (so guess who did most of it?).  We had to do progress reports each day, and had to update a work log to reflect our progress (which we made on the second day of class).

It had, I think, nearly 40 forms and two modules (I'm still surprised I got away with just two), and it was connected to a Microsoft Access Database (the extension was changed and it was password protected).

In all, all the offical documentation we did for the project (which was presented to the teacher, the associate dean, and the program chair), was larger in size than the whole software package AND source code.

But, the positive side, the program was better than any other final project the teacher had ever seen (the program chair and associate dean would probably have said the same thing if they could remember the previous projects or stuck around long enough) when teaching the class.

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