The Task

Did we mention that your programmers are not all located in the main office? In fact, they are all located in different branch offices in Ottawa, Toronto, and Victoria.

Fortunately, your company is highly connected and all of the programmers have a high speed connection to the company's intranet.

As you complete this webquest, you will be posting programming specifications to the company's intranet in the form of webpages or, on a collaborative Wiki. Sure, we could just send the programmers onto the Internet to do some reading but that wouldn't solve the problem. YOU have to do the research, synthesize your readings, and post the standards for this project.

In particular, you must address:

1. What programming paradigm (procedural or object oriented) is best suited for a project of this type?
2. Descriptive naming conventions for constants, variables, and expressions;
3. Modular Procedural Standards;
4. The "Look and Feel" of your product, with careful attention given to end user needs;
5. Internal and external documentation to a specific set of standards to ensure clarity and maintainability.

Your job is to do the reading and post project guidelines addressing the above to a website or Wiki that will be posted to the intranet and referenced by all project members.