[nfbcs] Best techniques for group computer science projects

[Suzanne Germano]

Yes I know it rarely happens which is why I hate class group projects. This
is a small project and most of it is in the main (By direction of the
professor) so most of the shared work is actually in one file. We are at
the point of getting everything to work together.

I would rather just do the entire project myself.

I was hoping it would have worked to have one main and to object classes
and divide it by the three people but that is not the way the professor and
TA want it done. They said an object for checkerboard is not needed. And
even the move method for the checkers is to be in main. I felt this was not
the way to do it but if that is what the grader wants and the fact we have
very limited time that is what they will get.


On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 7:03 PM, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at shellworld.net>wrote:

> Why is it necessary for everyone to see an entire project?  That rarely
> happens in the real world for industrial espionage protection reasons.
> Waterfall model gives a project leader the main control module to write.
>  Several other modules get mentioned in that main control module.  Each
> subordinate is given one of those modules to write with instructions as
> to input; processing, or output and what variables to use and what to
> use them for along with what constants to use and what to use them for
> as well.  Much contract and subcontract work gets done that way.  Any
> such project can turn into two projects if maintenance possibilities get
> concieved by the project leader but no subordinate is allowed to
> maintain the code they wrote.  Everyone swaps with everyone else.  That
> very often happens in the real world too.  For a computer science class,
> it will teach students that not everybody thinks alike and give each of
> the students a window into another student's mind.
>
> On Mon, 28 Oct 2013, Suzanne Germano wrote:
>
> > I have a group project in one of my computer science classes and several
> > more to come before I finish the degree. Most sighted people sit around
> one
> > computer and all look at the screen. I use ZoomText so no one likes to
> look
> > at my screen since you lose so much view but obviously I can't see
> theirs.
> >
> > What techniques do you find work best for situations like this. It is
> not a
> > situation that we could run dual monitors and mirror them with one having
> > zoom text enlarged. I am also not super fond of that since what I see
> > depends on where they have the mouse which may not be the area we are
> > talking about.
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > Suzanne
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