Team Work

So here’s a hypothetical situation for you all to ponder. Let’s say 3 CS majors are assigned the task of coding up a networked version of Clue. Assume none of said individuals have a clue as to how a networked game works to the point than certain unmentionable members were blissfully unaware that 2 separate programs, one for the client and one for the server, needed to be written. Say one individual realized that if she didn’t take it upon herself to figure out client/server communication, her team would be up a creek with source code due in a matter of days. Say while the other members worked on graphic displays and game board logic, this chic took up residence in the computer lab, coded up the entire client, converted their applets into JFrames, and made the GUI in those frames functional. Well since only one person wrote the client code, and only one person understands the client code (this one person admits her aversion toward commenting complicates matters), guess who’s stuck writing the entire server? Doh.