Corning Community College


Data Structures


Thursday Commits




Objective

To ensure familiarity and induce questions related to participating in, and developing the class Backgammon project.

Background

We've been spending time lately exploring the concepts and applications of version control, especially in relation to our class Backgammon project.

In order for this project to effectively kick off, everyone in the class needs to be familiar with how the system works, and that experience best comes with real, actual development on the project.

Procedure

Between our class today (Tuesday), and by the start of class Thursday (prior to 10:12AM on that day), I would like everyone to have completed the following:

  1. Perform 1 commit to the repository containing a relevant update to the project code.
  2. Perform 1 additional commit to the repository, for a total of at least 2 commits.
    • Can also be a contribution of project code, correcting a typo, commenting some code, creating/enhancing a test application, editing a Makefile, etc. Some relevant repository code update.
  3. Perform at least 1 contribution of relevant documentation to the Project wiki page.
    • Wiki Edit MUST be on the main page, not on discussion forum, in order to count.
  4. any questions related to this assignment must be asked in a sanctioned forum of communication (class mailing list, class irc) sufficiently prior to our next class.

Remember: A commit should be based on a relatively small change in the code (1 function being created, a couple of typos, etc.) Do NOT make massive changes and push them to the repository in 1 commit. That makes it considerably more difficult to track changes, and will still only count as 1 commit for the purposes of this assignment. You also don't have to be concerned with perfection.. your code does not need to compile this point… focus on content first, then we'll hammer out details later.

Submission

To complete this assignment, all you have to do is perform the above actions between the class today and the start of the next class.