List of Projects

Project #1: Basic Client-Server DUE 11:00 pm January 28, 2014.
Project #1b: Scala version of Project 1 (bonus) DUE 11:00 pm February 10, 2014.
Project #2: Multi-threaded Client-Server DUE 11:00 pm February 19, 2014.

General Information

There will be a two projects based on sockets programming and multithreading, and two more projects based on Scala. You may either do these projects on your own or as a pair. If done as a pair, you must list each member and document the contribution of each member; both members must be able to fully explain the operation of the system they develop.

These projects are primarily designed to help you to strengthen your concurrent and network programming skills as well as to give you a chance to practice software development as a team. Each project will introduce you new concepts in concurrent and network programming.

General Instructions

Your project report title page should have

the class prefix and number
the date
your printed name(s)
your signature(s)
the assignment number
the due date

on it.

Every report should include the following sections

project description - what it is you are doing
theory - what is supposed to be going on
materials and methods - describe what you used to do the project (including software and hardware, code you wrote, etc.)
experiment documentation - state exactly what you did and when (details sufficient that you or anyone else could exactly reproduce the experiment and get the same results, in so much as that is possible). This should include any testing with documentation of test cases.
observations and results - if an experiment, what did you see?
discussion - interpret and explain your observations and relate to theory

Project Submission

Projects are to be submitted using Sakai as a tar file.

Resources

Bruce Eckel, Thinking in Java, 1/e, Prentice Hall, 1998, 1152 pp., ISBN 0-13-659723-8, $39.95
The Java Turtorial (Sun) - You will find a good tutorial on Java here.
Gamelan - Lots of Java related stuff.
alphaWorks (IBM) - Lots of cool programming stuff (Java, C/C++, Smalltalk).

If you have questions, answers, or anything to share about projects, Java, C, C++, sockets, or Scala programming in general, please post it on an appropriate discussion topic on Sakai.