<p>Hello, and welcome to my devlog. This is where I talk about whatever coding I’ve been up to recently. Queries to <ahref="mailto:ajsWritesCode@gmail.com">ajsWritesCode@gmail.com</a>.</p>
<h2id="i-started-working-on-a-new-project-today">I started working on a new project today.</h2>
<p>The client is an educational services provider and wants me to develop a tool to facilitate in-person group activities. This tool should:</p>
<ul>
<li>provide a platform which students can log into from a mobile device, in a frictionless process that takes seconds</li>
<li>allow a teacher to assign groups and pairs in</li>
<li>allow the teacher to dynamically reassign groups without repeating combinations</li>
<li>implement a simple score-keeping functionality</li>
<li>be able to run a ‘buzzer’ game</li>
<li>have a clean, appealing, and user-friendly UI</li>
</ul>
<p>A quick read of this brief should make it clear that what is required here is a server capable of handling multiple, live, two-way connections. The server needs to be able to update the clients whenever the teacher wants to shuffle the groups, and the buzzer game requires that when a student ‘buzzes’, state is propagated via the server to all other clients. The solution to this problem is websockets, and a server capable of handling concurrency.</p>
