►Assignment 1 – Form a team and write a memo
Assignment 1 – Form a team and write a memo
1 The team
2 The memo

Assignment 1 – Form a team and write a memo

Due Friday 4/1 11:59pm for the first task, Sunday 4/3 11:59pm for the second one.

Follow the instructions for the deliverables to the letter, otherwise our scripts may not be able to find your submissions.

1 The team

Your first task is to meet with your partner to discuss your schedules and make sure you’ve put aside a healthy amount of time that you can pair program together for the class. Then confirm your with the course staff your partner and officially form a team.

Deliverables: Each person must visit this google form and enter in the team. We expect to see each team entered twice, once for each member of the team.

2 The memo

Your second task is to write an 1-page memo to justify the selection of the language your team will work with for the rest of the quarter. It is always a wise choice to pick a language you already know well and you are confident that it is a good fit for the project you are working on. What you know at this point is that it is necessary that the language you pick provides support for:

  • running programs from the command line of a Unix box;

  • Unix-style I/O (reading from STDIN and writing at STDOUT);

  • reading, processing and printing JSON;

  • TCP/IP sockets;

  • loading code dynamically.

In addition to the above, it will be extremely helpful for you if your language comes with a unit testing framework, random testing facilities, a good IDE, a REPL and ways to organize your code in modules, packages etc.

The title of your memo should be "This is why I commit to X and rely on it to help me succeed." where X is the name of your language of choice. Most importantly the memo should justify your choice of language in a concrete manner with respect to all the necessary requirements listed above. For example, if you claim that your language supports JSON processing through a library, you have to provide the library name.

Deliverables: In your team’s GitHub repository, first create a directory named "Deliverables" and then inside it create another directory named "1". Finally create inside "1" a directory "1.2" and place there a PDF named "memo.pdf" containing your memo.

You will receive up to twenty points for your essay depending on how many of the above requirements it discusses.