Due: Sunday evening, October 27
Monday evening, October 28, 9:00pm Tuesday morning,
Octobter 29, 6:00 am
Testfiles folder (files are moved here sometime after being submitted)
This is optional; it will count only as participation points, not as part of the project grading. Everyone still has to turn in some kind of valid file as part of Project 2 -- it's possible to use the same file for both purposes (if the file fits both requirements).
A major reason for collecting these files is to have interesting files for people testing their Project 2 solutions. For this reason, the ppointFile must be turned in earlier than the overall project due date. The files will be posted on the web for all to see. The file must be unique: two different people can't use the same source of information. (Also not allowed: taking one large source, like a web page, and dividing up the information between two or more people!) The pp testfile will have its own turn-in form. The form will make a few checks on the file format.
Note that credit will be granted only after your TA reviews the file when grading the entire project. No credit will be given unless the file meets the requirements as follows:
The file should be an ASCII text file in the same format as described in the project information, plus meet the following requirements:
It should be processable by any (correct) solution to Project 2. For example, don't include dates in formats that are not required by the project. Even though your solution handles them fine, someone else's might not.
The comments at the beginning must include a full citation of where the information came from. Give a URL if appropriate, the date of discovery, the date of preparation, author, title (of the original source), date on the original source, if you can determine it, etc. and a note about how you prepared the file (edited a web page, manually typed in information from the encyclopedia, got the file from a history professor, etc.). Identify yourself in the comments, too, at least as a UW CSE143 student (giving your name is optional). Be careful not to include any personal information that you don't want made public -- these files will be published on the web and accessible to the world.
Give the file a name that: identifies the topic to some extent; is prefixed with your initials (to help make the filenames unique); has the extention ".text" (lower case).