* [Design]: Lintohl @ 2002-06-14 0:49 chris.danx 2002-06-14 14:20 ` Ted Dennison 2002-06-14 18:49 ` Kevin Cline 0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: chris.danx @ 2002-06-14 0:49 UTC (permalink / raw) Hi all, Would anyone be willing to take a look at the current requirements and specs for Lintohl, (a Tetris-like game using gwindows) and give some feedback? It might not sound complex enough to require a formalisation of requirements, specs, design (and so on) but the project is as much about putting the theory from this years Software Design course into practise as it is about learning a little about game development or improving my Ada skills (besides, if somethings worth doing, it's worth doing right). My concern is that there's too much detail or information in the requirements, and that some of it would go better in the specification. Usually I'd write a lengthy requirements document and then set about the design before implementing, but the goals are different this time; I want to mature my development skills and learn new ways of doing things. The documentation is also important since it will be included with the source of Lintohl, to encounrage ppl to include their designs with their code. One of the reasons I won't modify or sometimes even look at others code is that although the design is in the code, you've got to look at what it all does before you can make any modifications (to take into account the effects a change may affect). Knowing both what the codes supposed to do, and what it actually does is also benefitial as any differences between the intention and implementation can be indentified quickier and easier. The document can be found here: http://willowplan.tripod.com/lintohlreqs.swx http://willowplan.tripod.com/lintohlreqs.doc One is OpenOffice format (might work with StarOffice but haven't tried it), and the other is Word 97/2000 format. Both should be 100% free of macros of any sort, but if you do find any macro viruses should you scan them let me know. Regards, Chris ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: [Design]: Lintohl 2002-06-14 0:49 [Design]: Lintohl chris.danx @ 2002-06-14 14:20 ` Ted Dennison 2002-06-14 15:19 ` chris.danx 2002-06-14 18:49 ` Kevin Cline 1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Ted Dennison @ 2002-06-14 14:20 UTC (permalink / raw) "chris.danx" <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:<z4bO8.12781$gm5.2060556@news11-gui.server.ntli.net>... > The document can be found here: > > http://willowplan.tripod.com/lintohlreqs.swx > http://willowplan.tripod.com/lintohlreqs.doc Those links both take me to a web page that reads: --- This file is hosted by Tripod, a Lycos�Network Site, and is not available for download. Please check out Tripod's Help system for more information about Remote Loading and our Remote Loading policy. --- -- T.E.D. Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com (Yahoo: Ted_Dennison) Homepage - (temporarily down) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: [Design]: Lintohl 2002-06-14 14:20 ` Ted Dennison @ 2002-06-14 15:19 ` chris.danx 2002-06-15 0:44 ` chris.danx 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: chris.danx @ 2002-06-14 15:19 UTC (permalink / raw) [-- Warning: decoded text below may be mangled, UTF-8 assumed --] [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 677 bytes --] "Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message news:4519e058.0206140620.71ac052f@posting.google.com... > Those links both take me to a web page that reads: > --- > This file is hosted by Tripod, a Lycos�Network Site, and is not > available for download. Please check out Tripod's Help system for more > information about Remote Loading and our Remote Loading policy. > --- oops sorry! The docs can now be found here: http://willowplan.tripod.com/ I've added a zip file that contains both docs, since I haven't succesfully download the sxw file with IE or Opera (right click, "save as" didn't work much better). Does it work with Mozilla ok? Chris ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: [Design]: Lintohl 2002-06-14 15:19 ` chris.danx @ 2002-06-15 0:44 ` chris.danx 0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: chris.danx @ 2002-06-15 0:44 UTC (permalink / raw) > The docs can now be found here: http://willowplan.tripod.com/ An updated version has been uploaded. It contains slight changes to the requirements, sections on scoring, shapes and the highscore table. The files should contain no dynamic links to the shape images, but if the shapes are not displayed please let me know. Any comments or suggestions? Chris ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: [Design]: Lintohl 2002-06-14 0:49 [Design]: Lintohl chris.danx 2002-06-14 14:20 ` Ted Dennison @ 2002-06-14 18:49 ` Kevin Cline 1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Kevin Cline @ 2002-06-14 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw) "chris.danx" <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:<z4bO8.12781$gm5.2060556@news11-gui.server.ntli.net>... > My concern is that there's too much detail or information in the > requirements, and that some of it would go better in the specification. > Usually I'd write a lengthy requirements document and then set about the > design before implementing, but the goals are different this time; I want to > mature my development skills and learn new ways of doing things. Read "Extreme Programming Explained" and learn a really new way of doing things. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
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