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Choosing FOSS Project

Today we went about discussing and ultimately deciding upon an FOSS project to work on during the course of this semester in Object Oriented Design & Analysis. It was interesting to see the various ranges in opinions regarding the choices in projects. After much discussion, the final verdict was ultimately made through a class-wide vote. Some of the options for FOSS projects included: Firefox, Sage, Eucalyptus, LibreOffice, and VLC Media Player. Voting was done through each student listing their preference from highest to lowest on a piece of paper. The top choice on each ballot was then sorted, in which Eucalyptus came out on top. After sorting through the remaining ballots, Eucalyptus was ultimately the receiver of the majority of the votes. Therefore, the FOSS project that was decided upon to be worked on during the course of this semester is Eucalyptus.

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IRC

Last week we were introduced to using an IRC client. It was an interesting experience as it was quite hectic with the number of people that were included in the chat. A “regular” chat session consists of much fewer participants, making it quite a different experience. It took some time to get used to the chaos, but after a few minutes it was easier to follow the conversations in the chat room. IRC seems as though it can be a very useful tool to communicate with people all around the world to discuss various topics regarding Computer Science projects that one may be working on. It allows for communication among programmers in a manner that is very straight-forward and easily accessible.

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Obj Oriented Design/Analysis: Goals

My goal during this course is to learn about how software engineering and development works in real world company environments. I’d like to learn the various aspects of working in a team environment on a large open source software package. I’d also like to become familiar with the various terms and scenarios a software engineer/developer in the real world environment is faced with on a daily basis. I hope to become a better programmer and team player through the course of this course.