Re: Marking of assignment 2

ddowler (ddowler@direct.ca) Wed, 23 Feb 2000 22:04:40 -0800 

Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 22:04:40 -0800
From: ddowler <ddowler@direct.ca>
Subject: Re: Marking of assignment 2



Dr. Casas:

If the actual solution of the problem is too easy to forge, then why
don't we email our .com files and the TA can test them for himself?  If
you tell us what the name of the .com file should be (i.e. asgxyyyy.com
where asgx is the assignment number, and yyyy are the last 4 digits of
our student number), then the TA can put them all in the valarrow
directory, and test the whole class in a few minutes.  Is this
unreasonable?

Also, why did we have to use the exact 4 functions that you suggested?
I used a slightly different algorithm that worked fine.

Lastly, I think it should be noted that the workload for this course has
been, by far, the largest of the third year courses, so I don't think a
little more leniency would be unreasonable.  If the comments are going
to be marked so in-depth, then shouldnt we get an in-depth description
(i.e. mark breakdown) of what is expected?  I don't think it would bias
our efforts, since nobody worries about the comments until a solution is
reached anyway (I think I speak for everyone when I say that).

Thanks,

Dustin Dowler
EECE 379