Week 3

Well, we went over some Perforce stuff and also a little bit of the homework that was due last week. Then we covered topics about meetings, planning them, and also the effectiveness of them. After that, we then talked about technical designed documents that show what has been done to implementations that are part of the software development process. Ed gave examples of technical design documents when working on the video game "Stranglehold" during his time as Director of Technology of Midway. We saw the changelists and the problems encountered when trying to fix certain bugs that were encountered when trying to design the systems for the video game (ex. camera, shaders, etc.). It was very interesting to see these design documents and also gain a very deep insight in working with the video game industry. I also have my own team formed up. I am not going to be able to attend our first Skype meeting, but there are also other very important resources at our disposal (the wiki, Piazza forums) to hopefully make this very coordinated so that we could get the first part of Project 1 completed before Wednesday's class.