Assignments: Principles and Patterns of Organizing Systems Spring 2011

#	Title	Assigned	Due	Description
1	Identify Five Dimensions	Tuesday, January 25th, 2011	Monday, January 31st, 2011 6pm	Your task in this assignment is to identify five design dimensions/facets/issues that can usefully compare and contrast the scenarios described in today's assigned readings.
2	REST Goggles	Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011	Monday, February 28th, 2011 6pm	The biggest change in focus when talking about REST (instead of more traditional approaches to distributed systems design) is to focus on resources first, and functions second. Take an everyday scenario you are familiar with, put on REST goggles, and analyze where it is resource-oriented or not, what that means, and what could be changed to make it more RESTful.
3	REST Microscope	Tuesday, March 1st, 2011	Monday, March 7th, 2011 6pm	Starting from the previous assignment, get a little more formal when it comes to defining the essential parts of the scenario. What would the identifiers look like? What would the link interactions look like? What would the representations look like? What kind of state transfers would you need to transfer to make sure interactions are always stateless?
4	Term Paper/Project	Tuesday, March 15th, 2011	Monday, May 9th, 2011 6pm	This assignment presents the requirements and key dates for a proposal, interim and final deliverables for a term paper or project.