# Module 4 Overview

## Theme

Prototype implementation

## Essential Question

What is the smallest useful working system?

## Module Components

- `Book prose`: conceptual framing, domain scenario, methods, and failure modes
- `Assignment`: evidence-backed production of a specific artifact
- `Slides`: presentation sequence for seminar or lecture delivery
- `Narration`: spoken version of the slide flow
- `Instructor notes`: facilitation plan, discussion prompts, and grading cues
- `Rubric`: criteria for evaluating the module artifact
- `Notebook`: executable lab aligned with the module theme using synthetic milestone evidence covering scope, implementation, evaluation, deployment readiness, and stakeholder value

## Module Artifact

capstone portfolio with thesis, implementation evidence, evaluation report, and final defense materials focused on prototype implementation: Demonstrate a prototype with reproducible setup.

## Professional Setting

Students work as if advising a capstone review committee evaluating whether a student project is defensible, deployable, and well documented. Their work must be intelligible to faculty advisor, industry sponsor, technical reviewer, and presentation panel.