CS 4500 Assignment #1
Assigned: Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Due: Friday, 11 January 2013

You have heard the instructor give an extremely vague
description of the semester project for CS 4500.  Write
a short memo, no longer than two printed pages, that
summarizes what you perceive to be (or should be!) the
requirements for that software.  Your memo should be
addressed to the instructor, and should be written as
though he is the client who is commissioning the software.

If you are unsure about the requirements, your memo should
ask for information you would need to write a better
summary of the requirements.

Keep in mind that requirements are not quite the same as
specifications and are definitely not architecture or
design.  You do not want to create a poor first impression
by discussing detailed specifications or design before you
and your clients have agreed on the requirements.  On the
other hand, you do not want to create a poor impression by
failing to address major issues.

The quality of your writing will be graded.  Many clients,
including your instructor, take a dim view of memos that
contain errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, or the
like, and are more impressed by well-written memos in
straightforward plain text than by fancy presentations of
sloppy writing.

Submit your memo in printed form at the beginning of class
on the day it is due.  There are many students in this
course, so you should remember to identify yourself in your
memo.

Late assignments may be discounted, and very late assignments
are likely to be discarded without credit.

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