Week3

Objectives
Create this wiki. Solve a few exercises from jon kerridge's module on paralel programing with Groovy and JCSP.

Progress
Wiki done. Did all the exercices from chapter 2 to 5. Read everything from chapter 1 to 15. Filled the initial project overview.

Supervisor's Comments
Reviewed and suggested minor changes to the IPO, which can now be sent to Kevin Chalmers.

Very impressed with the fact that he has completed all the exercises from the first few chapters.

Also very pleased that he had read the reamining chapters because the ones on communuications are crucial to his further understanding. BUT those later chapters use the old net interface rather than the later net2 architecture of which I gave him a tutorial. I sent him an example of LanAutoload that use the net2 architecture to create a farm, using anonymous channels and ports and virtual channel numbers. This example uses the fact that we can load class files over the network automatically (This will not be possinle on the lego robot.)

So my suggestion is to cerate an example using net2 that is a model of what we require on the lego system so that we know how it works in the normal java environment.

Once that is working then you should load up Severin's software and ensure that you can compile it

I am back on the 10th October.