95-702DistributedSystems
Project 3 Reflection
Assigned:Monday,March 14, 2011
Section A - Due: Monday,March 21,in class.
Section B – Due: Tuesday, March 22, in class.
General Directions
For each of these questions, write a paragraph of 100 – 150 words reflecting on the question relative to the programming assignment. These paragraphs should be well-written professional English prose. They should be of a quality that you would be proud to share with a potential employer in the United States.
In any programming assignment, it is possible to hack together a solution without taking the time to reflect on what it does, and how well it does it. It is important to develop your reflective practitioner skills so that you review and learn from these small programming assignments, and take from them bigger distributed systems lessons.
You will be graded on the completeness and quality of your answer. Do not just minimally answer the literal question. Rather, use the question as a launching point for reflecting on the issues. For example, we ask about the security of your simple web application. Of course there is no security. But don't just state that there is no security, rather explain why there is no security, what Eve and Mallory might be able to do with your application (even if it is nonsensical to think they would bother with such a simple application), and indicate what would be needed to improve the security (in general terms at this point).
While you should not be too brief, you also should not be too verbose. Don't try to impress by the number of characters. Rather, impress by the insight of the reflection. Keep each answer to 100-150 words.
And as always, this work should be your own. You can discuss the questions and your understanding of the answers. But when it comes to writing prose, it should be your own solitary work.
Submission
You should type your answers into the Questions section of this document. Then print only it (not these directions) 2 sided. Therefore you should be able to submit a single sheet of paper, two sided, with your answers to these reflection questions.
Bring the single sheet with you to class. You must submit it to the correct section. Electronic submission is not permitted for this assignment.
Grading
As stated in our syllabus, we will use sampling in our grading. In other words, we will grade one or more of these questions very carefully, and that will be the grade for the complete assignment. This makes the assignment scalable for a large class, while giving each student the challenge of learning fully from the software development project. Consequently, make sure all your answers are of high quality, for you do not know which we will choose to grade. (Nor do we know which we will pick. We will have to ask the groundhog.)
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95-702 Distributed Systems
Project 3 Reflection