Comments? + A different API?

[noidontdig]

Assessment looks great! We'll need to show the students how to install JUnit at the beginning of the class, but that shouldn't be a problem.

I think you can skip the "declareAndAssignVariable" method since other methods will probably implicitly measure that. Does that make sense?

I also think that, in order to avoid any confusion, we should have either:

• A very descriptive comment at the top that explains that the name of the method describes what the method should do, and that students can change the method signature to make the test pass
• A descriptive comment for each method

Another idea: it might be cool to provide the students with an API they haven't worked with before. So instead of "Person", which they used in their homework, maybe "Cats" or "Poets" or "Programmers."

What do you think?

[shurane]

• Did you have to specify using JUnit while trying to use this? Hmm, I was hoping to avoid that. JUnit should be built in...
• I'll skip declareAndAssignVariable, noted.
• I'll opt for the one descriptive comment at the top
• Yeah, wouldn't be bad to include both Person and something like Poets. Like going from a place of familiarity to one of unfamiliarity.

[noidontdig]

I just had to click download JUnit within the project. It was relatively simple. Maybe we can include junit-4.7.jar in the project?

And Person + Poets sounds good :+1:

[bgun]

I assume Poet would inherit from Person? Have we gone over inheritance in class?

[noidontdig]

No inheritance yet!

[bgun]

Maybe something less inherently related than People/Poets then. How about Place?

[shurane]

hmm, Place would be nice, could sort of lead to composition with People having Place instead of a City.

[shurane]

No recursion, right?

[noidontdig]

No recursion! The list of topics I sent covers everything we've formally taught them.