Format and instructions

Format

Group project and presentation.

Instructions

1. Form a group of 2 to 5 people
2. Decide what to work on.
• One of the games at the bottom of this page (not already chosen by another group)
• A project of your choice (does not need to be a game, needs to be approved by us)
3. Contact us.
• Tell us what project you choose and who are the members of the group.
  
• If you chose a game, we'll double-check that it's not already assigned.
  
• If you opted for a project of your choice, we'll evaluate its suitability for the exam.
  
4. Work on the project.
   
• The project should be hosted on GitHub (or a similar service)
• You should practice Continuous Integration while working on the project (you can use Travis CI or other similar tools to implement the CI system)
• To practice Continuous Integration you need automated tests. Use automated tests and Test Driven Development to grow your code.
5. Get ready for the exam.
• Contact us to schedule the exam.
• Send us the link of the project repository (at least 2 days before the exam).
6. Present your project.
• Show a live demo (working software is the primary measure of progress)
• Describe what steps you took, what tests you used (the commit history could help in doing this)
• Show us the code, highlight design choices you made and why you made them
7. Answer our questions about the project.
• We will read both the production and test code to understand how your software works.
  
• We will evaluate the quality of your code by using code smells, S.O.L.I.D. principles, coupling, cohesion.
• We will look for functional style code (e.g., Java Streams).

Games

Develop a command-line version of one of the following pencil-and-paper games.

• Reversi
• Dots and Boxes
• Gomoku
• Brique
• Freedom
• Crossway
• Quentin
• Order and Chaos
• Konobi

You can increase the complexity of the project, for example, by adding a graphical user interface, by adding different variations of the game, or by making the game a client-server one. We'll also evaluate such additions and the way they are implemented.