Welcome back to my (mildly late) SLOG for CSC148. Now that assignment one's over and done with, this would be a good opportunity to talk about my experience while working through it. As such today's topic will be regarding assignment one and group programming.
As I've said last week, this assignment included elements that were not new to me as a programmer and as a result, the assignment wasn't so hard. My group was composed of three people, the other two being my friends. Those two had not come across this particular problem before, but as they are decent programmers (and generally intelligent people), they grasped the concept quickly. Working as a group was a little strange, given that I had only programmed alone throughout high school, but I had some experience from 108 (but I had only one partner back then). Programming as a group for us went quite well, we were efficient, assigning functions that were easy to write to each person to save time, and tackling larger, harder functions as a group.
All in all, it was fairly easy and fun (for the most part). The only real problem we had was finding a method of programming as a group. We are all commuters and lived generally far from each other. But, as with most other problems, we found a solution by consulting Google. This handy little website allowed us to program in real time with others over the internet. We just needed to copy + paste the code into our IDE's and run it with the other files.
Programming as a group was a pretty fun experience, in some cases it seemed a little slow, but it probably sped up the completion of the assignment as a whole. Hopefully assignment two will be similarly fun and easy to work through.
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