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- From: jsmith@mcs.drexel.edu (Justin Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.edu,comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Class Project For Software Engineering Course
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.143055.18661@mcs.drexel.edu>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 14:30:55 GMT
- References: <1i4lfqINN849@crcnis1.unl.edu> <1ia3e0INN9m5@aludra.usc.edu> <1993Jan4.162437.19108@hemlock.cray.com> <jacob.726212041@latcs1.lat.oz.au>
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- At Drexel, we had a software engineering course taught in conjunction
- with a computer networks course. We had teams of approximately
- 5 students and the project was to implement Ross Perot's Electronic
- town meeting. This seemed to work out well. The project had
- several components (running on Unix machines):
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- 1. A server program
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- 2. A client
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- The server maintained a kind of bulletin board for discussing issues,
- and a vote-tallying module. Votes and records of discussions were written
- to files and there was a separate reporting module.
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- The clients used curses to implement a fairly good user interface.
- If we had more time we would have implemented X-window based clients
- and clients on non-Unix machines like the Macintosh.
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- Communication between the clients and server was via TCP/IP.
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