You each should individually maintain and update a weekly log book. You are advised to continuously update your log book.
To this end, create a single team an individual log book in which each team member adds you add the main activities that s/he you worked on during the project. We recommend that you You should use a simple text file for this that can be shared with all team members and . Please name this file logbook-<your full name>.txt
. Make sure to add it to your team's Git repo. This will also make sure your TA has access to your log book from the start of the project.
Structure: structure this log book into weeks (create a Week 1, Week 2, etc. heading), and add individual team member sections by adding your full name for each week.
Content: Maintain a simple list of bullets with brief but specific descriptions of each activity that you worked on that fit on 1-2 lines max (do not write paragraphs). You should think about all the different things that should be worked on such as coding, modifying, updating, testing, designing, analyzing, writing, etc. Each item (bullet) in your log book should have the form: <bullet><date>: <activity-description>
, where the activity description should start with a verb (indicating what you did). Some good examples would be:
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