Re: [xmlWiki-developers] Oct 8 Meeting Minutes/Other Items

[CS327 TA <cs3...@cs...>]

To this list:

> your code
> some UML diagrams explaining it
> meeting logs
> programming logs
> some personal reflections on what worked and what didn't

I would also add: "User stories".


> If you haven't seen it yet, it's probably worthwhile to check out the
> newly posted http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu/SEcourse/XP+Best+Practices ,
> where the course staff gives advice on what XP project groups should
> do.  We should perhaps think about how to implement some of these
> ideas in an geographically distributed manner. PAIR PROGRAMMING For
> this last HW (3&4) Chris Heistad and I worked together.  We had great
> success with Microsoft Netmeeting as a tool for "Pair Diagramming",
> and it seems that it would probably work just as well for pair
> programming.  I think that Pair Programming is at the heart of XP, and
> our experience with NetMeeting seems to me a strong indication that
> Pair Programming could work just as well for our group as it could for
> any other.  (Chris, please voice your agreement or disagreement. :) )
> TEAM-BUILDING AND HWs I have an idea for people to consider before our
> next meeting.  Chris and I pretty well "bonded" as teammates during
> HW3/4.  I understand that other people in our group have paired off
> together to work on HWs as well.  Who would be up for switching around
> partners if the course staff indicates that the next HW is able to be
> done in groups as well?  Disadvantage:  This would mean that one
> person always has to do the HW alone, since there's 7 of us, but
> perhaps the course staff will broaden the number of potential people
> per group to 3.  Advantage:  Enhanced team cohesion.

Can you use the voice-chat feature of NetMeeting while sharing a
workspace? Or is that too much of a bandwidth hog? If that doesn't work,
and you've got spare minutes in your long-distance plan, I would consider
calling each other up while pair-programming - the dialog that occurs
*while* you navigate the code is the essence of it. A chat box on the side
just isn't the same!

 - Andrew.