This week in IPPD, we learned about cost estimation, make vs buy analysis, and mainly completed our prototype plan. In this process, we were asked to answer a few questions that would help guide us in both the creation of our prototype and presentation for Prototype Inspection Day. After answering the questions, we have a strong idea of our prototype’s purpose, how we plan to evaluate our prototype’s success, what we plan to be showing and receiving feedback on, a list of necessary materials to construct the prototype, and most importantly a schedule that displays all of the tasks that need to be completed by a specific deadline prior to Prototype Inspection Day.

Outside of class, we have continued in an attempt to ensure that our CTF is held before Thanksgiving Break. Over this past week, we have been in contact with the IPPD coach that worked on this project last year, Dr Newman. Through our communications, we were able to learn that last year’s CTF was held in the Hub over UF’s network. This is critical knowledge, as we now plan to hold a test CTF among our team to test the application and ensure we are able to host the game on UF’s network. Once this is complete, we will have all the available tools and knowledge required to run the CTF. Beyond the CTF, all team members completed the Python beginner course to gain a deeper understanding of the language prior to diving into CherryPy. Moving forward we will be developing our prototype and preparing for Prototype Inspection Day, in addition to completing the CherryPy tutorial found in the CherryPy Github repository.