Assignment 2-S97a
Written Assignment to Accompany
Fractions Problem

You are strongly urged to keep a log (a record) of your experience in this project and use this log to help you answer these questions. You may turn in your log as well if you wish. You will be graded on the content of your response as well as sentence structure and your general use of English (including spelling).

Maximum Length = Three Double-Spaced Pages

• 0. Identify the members of your group.

• 1. Was the problem statement clear? Describe, or at least list, aspects of the problem statement that may have been ambiguous or incomplete. Describe any difficulties your group might have had in figuring out what you were required to do. How did you resolve these problems?

• 2. What did each member of your group contribute to the problem solution? Be specific.

• 3. Describe how your group worked. For example, did anyone in your group emerge as the group leader? How did you split up the work to be done? Was each member of your group encouraged to participate in your group discussions? Did the entire group work on the design of the system and then code it individually or was part of the design split up as well. How were members of the group informed about the interfaces between components and about changes in these interfaces?

• 4. In what ways did your group communicate -- phone, e-mail, the course news group bulletin board, face-to-face meetings, other? Were there certain kinds of issues that were better or more easily dealt with using one means of communication rather than another?

• 5. What problems did you encounter during integration testing (testing all program components together) in the lab? Be specific.

• 6. What did you learn from this experience? Feel free to comment on the positive aspects and the negative ones as well. Did you learn anything about yourself?