CSE 341 -- Assignments -- Guidelines

Guidelines for homework submissions

All programs must have a prominent header comment on each source file, containing your name, e-mail, student ID, and the assignment number.

This is just to help us avoid grading chaos. Here's an appropriate sample comment in Scheme:

      ;;;
      ;;; Keunwoo Lee : klee@cs
      ;;; 99xxxxx (your student ID)
      ;;;
      ;;; HW 1: Algebraic simplification using Scheme
      ;;;
      

We recommend, though will not require, that you also put the file name and current status of the code (Does it work? Does it have any known bugs or limitations? etc.) in your header comment. In particular, if your program has a bug, we will take off fewer points if you document this bug.

Submit a readable printout of your code in class on the due date

We will use the printed version to write comments and return them to you. This is a big class, so we won't be able to write extensive comments on all assignments, but we think it's valuable for you to get some feedback rather than none.

Send code via e-mail to klee@cs, in plaintext format, with the string "341HW" somewhere in the subject line

You can either attach your code or send it in-line in the message body, whichever you prefer. If you send it in-line, then make sure that it is formatted to 80 columns wide or less. Warning: some mail programs (notably Netscape and Microsoft's mail programs) format mail messages as HTML. Please learn to turn this "feature" off, if your mailer has it.

Also, please remember the "341HW" string, this will help me to filter homework submissions into a separate folder.

As always, no Microsoft or other application attachments (i.e., do not send a Microsoft Word document containing your source code; use plain text).

Note: For the Java project, which will be somewhat more extensive, we will probably ask you to send either a JAR or a TAR file of all your sources. We'll work out the details of that when we get to it.

Code will be graded on style.

Obviously, you won't have time to absorb the idioms of every language you learn in this class. However, you should have some sense by now of what constitutes clear code. If we can't read it, we can't grade it. Remember to use comments, whitespace, and all the rest.

Late homework policy.

Thanks. ~Keunwoo and Kenneth