IRC Chat/Wiki Edit

In class our professor gave us a exercise in working with a person or a group of people that are in different locations. He introduced us to the IRC Chat program which we had to use to communicate with another person (we weren't allowed to talk to each other in person directly) and only use this tool to complete a task. The task was to edit our Wiki profile pages. I thought this exercise was interesting because it forces us to work in a way that we're not used to and that might be necessary when working on real open source projects. Overall the assignment went well and me and my partner were able to successfully edit each other profile pages while only making requests and giving information over IRC Chat.