NDLI: Development issues for a networked, object oriented gaming architecture (NOOGA) teaching tool

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Astrachan, O.L. Bernstein, D. English, A. Koh, B.
Copyright Year	2002
Abstract	We describe the outcome and experience of trying to develop an architecture and framework for a Networked Object Oriented Gaming Architecture (NOOGA). The aim of this project was to create an easily extensible framework that facilitates teaching students about object oriented design, design patterns, and software engineering in an interesting context. Our original goal was to develop a game server to serve multiplayer games such as battleship, dots, and Boggle. We planned to implement these three games, but to design an extensible server that would permit new games to be added to the server framework. The NOOGA framework would be studied and used from both a client and server standpoint. Students would first develop clients that would connect to the server to play a specific game and would, in more advanced courses, add new games to the server. This paper focuses on the development process and design decisions made during development. We initially decided to implement the client/server model using Java's Remote Method Invocation (RMI). Later we developed a protocol for communicating between the server and clients using low-level sockets to facilitate client implementation in C and C++. We describe the success in developing an extensible server, but describe failures in ensuring robustness in the face of faulty clients. Since the NOOGA server was intended to facilitate student development of networked clients, our original goals were not fully realized.
Sponsorship	IEEE Educ. Soc. IEEE Comput. Soc. American Soc. Eng. Educ. (Educ. Res. & Methods Div.)
File Size	426889
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780374444
ISSN	01905848
DOI	10.1109/FIE.2002.1157952
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2002-11-06
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Education Network servers Computer architecture Software design Software engineering Process design Object oriented modeling Java Protocols Sockets
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Computer Science Applications Software

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