CLASSNET

Server progress

• Workflow to creates a new room
• Determines the number of "subnets"
• Chooses the number of messages required to be sent/received (the goal)
• Stop/start/reset the game
• Workflow to destroy the room
• Choose which "subnet" to join
• Students are assigned an IP address within the subnet
• Can prompt the server for a "challenge". The challenge is a destination IP address and a question.

Hosting progress

• Visit /room/:id to get redirected and join the room
• Get given a generated question-answer table
  • For now the table is a random map from 4- [ ]digit hex strings to 4- [ ]digit hex strings
  • I like the idea of using single symbols instead of strings
• By hand, they craft and send their question packet to the destination IP address.
• The expectation is another student will receive the packet, and will lookup the answer in their table.
• This second student will then send the answer back to the first student.
• Once the first student receives the answer to their question, they upload it to the website where it is verified and counted.
• While waiting for a response, students are expected to create more challenges and send more packets to other students.
• When time runs out, no more challenges can be created, but submissions will continue to be accepted for 1 more minute.

The goal is for the class to answer questions as quickly as possible.

Definitions

Subnet: Within this project, I'm using 192.168.N.0/24 as the subnets. The first 2 bytes are fixed, the third byte is the subnet number, and the last byte is the host number.