[Cs5500] Fwd: CS4800 HW6 IP Comm Protocol / Ashish

[Karl Lieberherr]

Here we have an interesting issue: some of our users (who are very talented)
hate Java and
they consider throwing your baby avatar out the window and implement
everything from scratch
in their favorite programming language.

Please describe for Matthew what would be involved in writing his avatar
from scratch, say in Python or Racket.
Note that the communication between avatars through the admin is all text
based which makes it possible to
write the avatar in any programming language.

What would be best to have is an SCG Avatar Interface which describes what
an "avatar-from-scratch" programmer needs to know.

I assign this subproject to Ashish.

-- Karl
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Matthew Pelland <mpelland at ccs.neu.edu>
Date: Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 4:55 PM
Subject: CS4800 HW6 IP Comm Protocol
To: Karl Lieberherr <lieber at ccs.neu.edu>


Hi Professor,

"In principle, you can write your avatar in any
programming language but then you have to program
the communication mechanism yourself (parsing, TCP/IP communication)."

I was just wondering how complex the communication protocol is for
homework 6. I'd rather not use Java so I am trying to weigh the amount
of extra work I will have to do versus how much I dislike Java.

Thanks,
Matt

--
Matthew Pelland, Computer Science Major, Northeastern University  Class of
2012
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