Question 1: We are planning to add a certain additional functionality X to our program for Assignment 1. Is adding the additional functionality X allowed?

Answer to Question 1: In Section G, Note, of the Assignment 2 description document, it is stated that,

“Please note that the requirements specified in section A. Description of the Problem 1-7 above, are the minimum requirements that must be satisfied by your program. Obviously, there are many other possible details of the RTSPD system that have been left unspecified. It is your responsibility to make appropriate design and implementation choices concerning the unspecified details of the RTSPD system, and justify those decisions in your report.”

Any decision to add additional functionality X to your program should be guided by the principles in Section G, Note, of the Assignment 2 description document above.

The marker will judge whether you have made an appropriate design and implementation choice or not in adding the additional functionality X; and whether your justification of what you have chosen to do is valid or not.