Energetic data

Two is better than one:

In this assignment we worked in pairs on a command line interface that would retrieve specified data from a server and then print out the results. I thought that working in pairs was a good experience as we were each able to offer each other different perspectives when it came to solving an error or figuring out the best way to implement code. The tasks were initially divided in half with my partner taking the odds and myself taking the evens. However towards the end (methods 9 and 10) my partner worked on ten while I worked on the interface. So in the end I thought that the distribution of tasks was quite even. Through this even distribution we were able to finish all of the given tasks and set up an interface for our classes. Like I said before I liked working in pairs and I thought that it was a great learning experience.

Problems:

As with all programming there is bound to be problems and probably lots of them at that. In our case we ran into problems where our project in eclipse wasn't the project in the SVN folder, so we found ourselves constantly copying over code and files to keep SVN up to date. The other problems that we ran into were a variety of pmd and findbug errors which were easily resolved after the problem was identified. But probably our biggest hurdle was that after attempting to build an interface, my partners SVN stopped working. This was a major set back as now I was the only one who was able to commit the changes, so towards the end all of her code was emailed to me, then put into the appropriate file and finally committed. Lastly a problem that seemed to bug us a lot was how to implement a certain method. However after discussing it would would find an agreeable way to create a method and one of us would put the ideal into code.