Software Engineering and Computer Games

2.6. Working in teams

Communication

Make sure to exchange email addresses and phone numbers at the earliest opportunity. Make an address alias in your email program including the addresses of all the team members. Try sending a message to the whole team at least once per week, and preferably at least once between each class meeting. To supplement email, you can also bring copies of printed texts to team meetings to make double sure that everyone gets the message.

Practice doing code hand-off. The idea is to (a) clean out the unnecessary files from your source directory (we supply a clean.bat batch file for doing this), (b) use the well-known WinZip utility to make a *.zip file, being sure to include all files needed for a successful build, ...