BCA Academic Project Guidelines Repository

This repository consists of the guidelines for the academic projects of the BCA course.

• For project syllabus and documentation formatting instructions visit BCA project syllabus.
• For presentation tips, read the slide guidelines.

Guidelines

Prerequisites

Before proceeding, ensure you know how to do the following things in MS word:

• to do section breaks as report requires seperate page numbering style for Certificates and Chapters.
• to set heading styles for Heading 1-5 and generate table of contents based on headings
• to auto generate list of figures and tables after adding captions
• to add citations and generate references

Useful links:

• How to insert section break in MS Word

Project Proposal

Below are guidelines for drafting your project proposal:

• Clearly define the project objectives. Don’t list more than two.
• Mention the problem your project going to solve, boil it down in simple two points.
• Include the background and significance of the project.
• Describe the methodology you plan to use.

Project Report

Below are the guidelines for important sections of project report:

• List of abbreviations should be in alphabetical order.
• Abstract should always be in one paragraph and don't use first person pronouns in it.
• Keywords in abstract should be bold and italic and write keywords relevant to the project.
• Objectivesthat you haven't met, don't put them.
• Limitations of the project should be less than scope of the project.
• Problem statement should be in two points.
• Chapter heading should be in center.

Download proposal and report samples

For better documentation, I recommend to download these samples, make copy and edit them in MS Word rather than Google Docs.

4th semester:

• Source code: Stock Portfolio Tracker
• Documentation: Proposal and Report

6th semester:

• Source code: Stock Trading System
• Documentation: Proposal and Report

7th semester:

• Documentation: Software Developer - Intern Report

Other resources:

• Log sheet