In college in project my team refused to do anything, my counter measures too harsh?

See the thing is, I lied a bit about the part where i said I asked my friend who works as lectuer, in reality I asked a lecturer what to do, we have like 1 main lecturer and 2 sublecturers because it's big class, and one of sub lecturers said to set deadlines and pin point people.

And yes I was following their progress over these 4 months, apparently it always ended up with: "I didn't know how to do it, I am doing it, I am reading it, it's gone, it didn't work or I don't know...", it got to the point where I wrote to someone on facebook and the guy read message but ignored me, I told one other team member that other team member ignored me and he was surprised because he knows we have to do project. That sub-lecturer told me to treat this project as real thing, that's why this module is called "project", we weren't thaught any kind of programming for it or anything, it was literally given task and thrown into a pit to sort out stuff ourselves. We've been set deadlines for things and that's it. Lecturer said we will write reflection (about other team members) how they worked or how they didn't work, and lecturer said that if project does not complete on time team leader is to take blame and will lose marks while the rest of team will have a bit higher marks.

So really? People are saying I should back off and just sit there and wait? Sounds like quite a crap plan to be honest.

And by the way, all team members have vote and right to change project however they want, if someone has idea - great, we use it always, if 3 out of 4 people don't like specific thing in project we remove it (for example, we removed our crappy logo that we had at start and we agreed we need new logo now and loading screen to be implemented), but the thing is that usually it's 1 person who does their own bit and starts to vote out parts of their bit just to avoid doing something.

Here let me explain:

We are making application where you can manage your own finances over current month, it has expenses and incomes section.

Expenses section was made great, good and works (made by team member doing their bit),that part listed a value in money and we were sitting in class and discussing part and it came to point where I said: "Please add currency symbol, use a variable stored in sharedpreferences, otherwise it doesn't make sense if there is no currency symbol) that member said: "I don't care, looks good enough" then I asked: "What do you guys thing? [asking everyone in group] "and everyone agreed that it needs currency symbol.... What I ended up doing is adding that currency symbol myself in that other team members part because that "team member" decided that he has finished his part even though all team agreed it needs a small fix.

Other part is incomes, basically same thing as expenses but it takes all incomes from database, the member that was working on it he made it crap way, nothing that looks decent, it's literally just 2 blank fields and a white button, it doesn't list incomes or gives any information whatsoever... That member came in and said: "I don't know how to do it..." I explained him, gave him reference links to learn and suggested to have a look at expenses code as it's nearly same.

When I told person who made expenses part: "The person who is making incomes is gonna use your code bits" that person who was making expenses part said: "What an ass, I made so much effort on that and he just copies it" I said: "well you all are using my code, so it's fair to say we as a group can share each others codes".


I was talking to lecturer about the project and I said:

"The crap part about working in groups on this project is that people aren't doing things because they are not afraid of consequences which in this case are not strict, they just lose marks, while in real world they would be forced and motivated to work on project because they know consequences at work will be terrible" and lecturer said: "Ah well not much you can do in this case, just try and document everything that's going on in group, make people record and report on their bits, set up deadlines for them, it will give them feeling of restriction and they will know they HAVE to do it by then"

So I did that way. I know lecturer will be on my side, even if they all complain lecturer will see.

We had a small 40 minute class where people out of our class (just typical people from local offices) came in and viewer our prototypes, our was most finished and completed than the rest of the course (other 15 groups) and when we were talking about project, this guy said: "it really feels like only you {pointing at me} are doing all the work, can someone else tell me something about project? " yet no one replied.

Only after that class I asked what's going on and why no one said anything, and the person who made expenses part said that they copied everything from internet. That day I ended up recoding whole thing as we are in danger of being expelled for thing called plagiarism.


Also here is a bit of briefing about my group members:

Group Member 1: 19 years old, comes in and keeps looking at cars, he is really into cars and stuff, watches videos etc.. always in class, doesn't do anything really, when I just made a hint saying: "Soo... any progress lately?" he always replies: "ehh yeah I am working on it..."
That's it, end of story. When I told him I am ready to stay back and help him if he needs any help he said alright thanks. Ye the never seeked for help.

Group Member 2: 19 years old, comes in and keeps looking at games and reading about games, nintendo news and other stuff like mario etc. (the guy who is making incomes part) when I make same hint: "Soo... any progress lately? " he always says: "Yeah I am learning it and reading about it..." only then he stops browsing crap and does work , otherwise he won't do it if not asked about it.

Group Member 3: 19 years old girl, comes in and plays tetris on facebook and texts on phone every minute, she keeps saying: "I don't like these computers so I will work on it at home", when I text her in evening asking: "So any news?" she aggressively replies: "Don't hurry me! / Don't bother me! / Stop controlling me!, when I do it, I do it so stop asking. " No other approach there, those two simple answers. She did first part (expenses) then stopped doing anything.

Group Member 4 (me): 19 years old, I love programming and I love getting as high scores in tests and projects as possible especially when project is really simple one.

Guess it's all my fault for choosing them all without knowing them well.

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But do you not see how much more damage you do by pushing them?

I also meant to say, if there is a college forum available for contacting each other and posting progress, you really, really shouldn't be texting them and bothering them on facebook. It's extremely unprofessional and you have said that this is meant to be treated as a real work experience.

No one treats that college forum seriously, unless asked to write something on it or check something none of team members will check and read it unfortunetely. when I post something on forum I have to write on facebook group too saying there has been update on forum.