Final Project

Design and implement a web application of your own with Python and JavaScript.

Milestones

Proposal Due 2024-04-14T23:59:00-04:00
Status Report Due 2024-05-05T23:59:00-04:00
Due 2024-05-10T23:59:00-04:00

Overview

The final project is your opportunity to design and implement a dynamic website of your own. So long as your final project draws upon this course’s lessons, the nature of your website will be entirely up to you, albeit subject to the staff’s approval.

How to Get Help

  1. Ask questions on Ed
  2. Attend office hours
  3. Email your teaching fellow or web-staff@cs50.harvard.edu

Requirements

In this project, you are asked to build a web application of your own. The nature of the application is up to you, subject to a few requirements:

  • Your web application must utilize Django (including at least one model) on the back-end and JavaScript on the front-end.
  • Your web application must be mobile-responsive.
  • In a README file (whose extension can be .txt, .md, .adoc, or .pdf) in your project’s main directory, include a full write-up describing your project, what’s contained in each file you created, why you made certain design decisions, and any other additional information the staff should know about your project. This document should be sufficiently thorough for your teaching fellow to run your project without any need to contact you further with questions. Take your time, and do not save this step for last. A well-written and complete README file will take longer than you think it will.
  • If you’ve added any Python packages that need to be installed in order to run your web application, be sure to add them to a requirements.txt file!
  • You will need to prepare a short video (that’s no more than 3 minutes in length) in which you present your project to the world, as with slides, screenshots, voiceover, and/or live action, ideally with you yourself appearing in the video. Your video should somehow include your project’s title and any other details that you’d like to convey to viewers. See CS171’s tips on how to make a “screencast” though you’re welcome to use a phone or actual camera. Upload your video to YouTube as “public” or “unlisted” and include the URL of the video in your README.md file. Beyond these requirements, the design, look, and feel of the website are up to you!

Proposal

Before you begin working on your project, the proposal is an opportunity for you to run your idea or ideas by the teaching staff. In the proposal, you will describe your project and define your milestones.

Your project may be an extension to Projects 1, 2, 3, or 4, so long as that extension is approximately equivalent in scope to the original project itself and is ultimately approved by your teaching fellow. You are, of course, also welcome to create an entirely new web application for your final project.

Your teaching fellow may approve your project, or request modifications. You may begin working on your final project immediately, but know that your teaching fellow may request changes to ensure your project is of sufficient scope. Feel free to use the proposal as an opportunity to ask any questions you may have about the final project as well. Your proposal, and subsequent adherence thereto, will be the basis upon which your project’s correctness and design are primarily assessed.

Complete the below no later than By 2024-04-14T23:59:00-04:00:

  1. Go to CSCI E-33a’s Gradescope page.
  2. Click Final Project: Proposal.
  3. Complete the questions there and submit.

You should see a message that says “Final Project: Proposal submitted successfully!” Contact your teaching fellow if not!

Status Report

Complete the below no later than By 2024-05-05T23:59:00-04:00.:

  1. Go to CSCI E-33a’s Gradescope page.
  2. Click Final Project: Status Report.
  3. Complete the questions there and submit.

You should see a message that says “Final Project: Status Report submitted successfully!” Contact your teaching fellow if not!

Implementation

The deadline for completing the below is 2024-05-10T23:59:00-04:00.:

How to Submit

  1. Download a ZIP file containing your implementation of the final project.
  2. Go to CSCI E-33a’s Gradescope page.
  3. Click Final Project: Implementation.
  4. Drag and drop your ZIP file to the area that says “Drag & Drop”.
  5. Click Upload.

You should see a message that says “Final Project: Implementation submitted successfully!” Contact your teaching fellow if not!