[cs615asa] HW#3 Clarification

[Jan Schaumann]

Tejas <tnadkarn at stevens.edu> wrote:
 
> I was just reading through HW3. Just so I'm clear, we're to create the
> applications based on the man pages you've listed?

Correct.  The manual page functions as a specification for your tool.

> I'm assuming they would depend heavily on existing EC2 command line
> tools, especially the ec2-start-instance which almost seems like it
> would just call ec2-run-instances with the right parameters for the
> most part.

That's correct.

> Am I approaching this the right way? Not sure what I'll use but I'm
> thinking C.

You are free to use whatever language you wish to use, but I don't think
C is necessarily the best choice here.  I'd probably suggest one of the
various interpreted languages.

-Jan