CSE logo University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering
 CSE 326 Winter 2010
  CSE Home    326 Home   About Us    Search    Contact Info 

Assignments & Exams
 Projects
 Written Homeworks
 Midterm Exam
 Final Exam
Administrative
 Home
 Annoucement ArchiveCSE only
 Message Board
 Anonymous Feedback
Lectures
 Calendar & Slides
Handouts
 First Day Handout
Policies
 General Guidelines
 Grading Policies
 Programming Guidelines
 Written HW Guidelines
Computing
 Unix Basics
 LaTex Info
   

Written Homework Guidelines

For our written homework assignments, typed assignments are preferred. Handwritten will be accepted, but note that if the TA has a hard time reading your work, the TA will also have a hard time giving you a good grade. Writeups for programming projects must be turned in electronically, which means those must be typed anyway.

Some problems on the written assignments ask you to give an algorithm to solve a problem. Unless the assignment specifically tells you to implement the code and run it, pseudocode is acceptable. Pseudocode means that you don't have to write every line in Java with correct syntax; English explanations of operations are acceptable. Note that the general rule you should follow is that you can substitute English for any O(1) operation, but not for more complex steps. Thus, the following would not be acceptable:

  scan the list and count all elements greater than x

while the following would be OK

  while list has more elements
     increment counter if current element is greater than x
     move to next element of list

The idea is that you don't have to give all the nitty-gritty coding details (that's what the programming assignments are for), but you should demonstrate a clear understanding of what your algorithm does and where those nitty-gritty details would have to go.


CSE logo Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington
Box 352350
Seattle, WA  98195-2350
(206) 543-1695 voice, (206) 543-2969 FAX
[comments to rea]