#TEAMMATES Developer Web Site
TEAMMATES is a free online tool for managing peer evaluations and other feedback paths of your students. It is provided as a cloud-based service for educators/students and is currently used by hundreds of universities across the world. This is the developer web site for TEAMMATES. Click here to go to the TEAMMATES product website
##Interested to join TEAMMATES developer team?
We welcome contributions from developers, especially students. Here are some resources:
- Contributor Orientation Guide : This document describes what you need to know/do to become a contributor. This is a MUST READ for new contributors.
- [Project ideas page] (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fAvYvQr0E93OsZgyneaXGX0jaMA-zptTIxqLn83xwN0/pub?embedded=true) : These are for those who would like to do a relatively bigger projects with TEAMMATES (e.g., summer internships).
- [Instructions for Google Summer of Code applicants] (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Iu63WRIw8uz8liEW089IQHDQTRbh-QoOLMyfTPXNOa0/pub?embedded=true) : Read this before you apply to work for TEAMMATES under GSoC.
##Documentation For Developers Here are some documents important for TEAMMATES developers:
- Specification (short name: Spec) : Product specification, written from the developers point of view. The user's point of view is here.
- The project vision, challenges, and principles from a developer's perspective.
- Software Design - Architecture, APIs, etc.
- How to set up the developer environment- e.g., tools and libraries used.
- The development process.
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Resources bin : Learning resources for the use of developers (tutorials, cheat sheets etc).
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Decision analysis : Analysis of problems encountered, solutions considered, rationale for selection etc.
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The glossary of terms used in the project.
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Coding standards for : Java, JSP, JavaScript, CSS, HTML
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Technical reports about TEAMMATES : In-depth descriptions about various aspects of the project
- An Analysis of Question Types - by Low Weilin
- Measuring Scalability and Performance - by James Dam Tuan Long
- Improving Scalability and Performance - by James Dam Tuan Long
- Data Backup and Disaster Recovery - by Lee Shaw Wei Shawn
- Dealing with Eventual Consistency - by Lee Shaw Wei Shawn
- Dealing with Intermittent Null Pointer Exceptions - by Lee Shaw Wei Shawn
- Using Task Queues - by Hunar Khanna, Lee Shaw Wei Shawn
- [Using AJAX for dynamic page updates] (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GjTlIgoZg-vWKGG2b6Bh7ipL9_rV9syymOl93O0iqM4/pub?embedded=true) - by Hunar Khanna
- Dealing with character sets - by Oo Theong Siang
- Modifying entity classes with legacy data - by Oo Theong Siang
- [Notes on the 'comments' feature] (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YsgDySCOQbLl7Wc5JYPtKqd_hNvGMwea4OqtVOb0HBM/pub?embedded=true) - by Xie Kai, Ju Junchao
- [Notes on 'access control'] (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g-1YhhYMCwO4NGJzn26HVzLxzm5PI6JAFxUNtHEEGDc/pub?embedded=true) - by Gu Junchao
- [Notes on 'profiles' feature] (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TGVkdu6JlOFX_2dJoeZu1avkiKj8ZqFcpBREJhKK78c/pub?embedded=true) - by Thyagesh Manikandan
##Acknowledgements TEAMMATES team wishes to thank the following invaluable contributions.
- School of Computing, National University of Singapore (NUS), for providing us with the infrastructure support to run the project.
- Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning (CDTL) of NUS, for supporting us with several Teaching Enhancement Grants over the years.
- Learning Innovation Fund-Technology (LIF-T) initiative of NUS, for funding us for the 2015-2018 period.
- Google Summer of Code Program, for including TEAMMATES as a mentor organization in GSoC2014 and GSoC2015 editions.
- YourKit LLC, for providing us with free licenses for the YourKit Java Profiler
(an industry leading profiler tool for Java applications).
##License TEAMMATES is released under GPLv2
##Contact The best way for potential contributors to contact us is by posting a message in our issue tracker (yes, we use the issue tracker as a discussion forum too).
Alternatively (less preferred), you can email teammates-contributors [at] googlegroups.com