Due, Wednesday, March 22, 2000 at 11:00 am

Complete an assessment of the sparse matrix programs written by members
of your team.

Your assessment should address at least the following issues:

(1) Should the team use the Java or C++ source that team members bring
to the table?
        Why?  Reasons could include better code (see below), more team members know
        Java, better Java code performance, etc.

(2) Which modules have the better interface (small and concise class
declarations, implementation modules of 200-400 lines, etc.

(3) Which modules have better performance?  Because of better data
representation or better algorithms, better coding, other reasons...

(4) Select the classes and/or method bodies that you will carry forward
into the project.

(5) Create a class diagram that shows the result of merging the code in
accord with your answer to (4).  While answering questions 4 and 5, keep
notes of what code will move where so that you can do the work more
correctly later in the project.

Turn in:

A document that gives your answers to the above questions as an
organized professional narrative.  (It helps grading if you identify the
question you are addressing in a section.)

The document should include a plan for completing the code merge that
you selected.

Note that papers that specify using a single program will be examined
much critically than other approaches because they presume that one
individual on your team was able to uniformly do a better job than all
other members of the team.

Don't forget to address the question of programming skills in the team
when selecting the implementation language.  Picking a C++ program when
there's only one C++ programmer on the team isn't a good idea unless the
author is willing to do all the programming of the project.

It's a good idea to get started on this work before Monday's class so
that you will be able to analyze the information you get from the client
requesting an upgrade of the program.