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====== General ====== | ====== General ====== | ||
- | ====== FAQ about Assignment 2 and 3====== | + | ====== FAQ about Assignments |
**Question 1**: We are planning to add a certain additional functionality X to our program for the Assignment. Is adding the additional functionality X allowed? | **Question 1**: We are planning to add a certain additional functionality X to our program for the Assignment. Is adding the additional functionality X allowed? | ||
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- | In Section G, Note, of the Assignment 2 description document, it is stated | + | Please note that the requirements specified in section A. Description of the Problem, are the minimum requirements that must be satisfied by your program. Obviously, there are many other possible details |
- | " | + | Any decision to add any particular additional functionality X to your program should be guided by the principles above. |
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- | Any decision to add any particular additional functionality X to your program should be guided by the principles | + | |
The marker will judge whether you have made appropriate design and implementation choices or not in adding the particular additional functionality X; and whether your justification of what you have chosen to do and the particular ways you have chosen to do it are valid or not. | The marker will judge whether you have made appropriate design and implementation choices or not in adding the particular additional functionality X; and whether your justification of what you have chosen to do and the particular ways you have chosen to do it are valid or not. | ||
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There is nothing wrong with the pthread library on RED. | There is nothing wrong with the pthread library on RED. | ||
- | The best and easiest way to do the assignment, is to follow | + | The best and easiest way to do the assignment, is to do the following: |
- | in the assignment 2 description document: | + | |
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1. You may start by trying to read and understand the program | 1. You may start by trying to read and understand the program | ||
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Start with the program " | Start with the program " | ||
+ | **Question 4**: For Assignment 2, are we allowed to make modifications to the main() procedure and the alarm_thread function? | ||
- | **Question 4**: For Assignment 3, can I include the errors.h file that was used in Assignment 2? | + | Answer to Question 4: |
- | Answer | + | You are allowed |
- | **Question 5**: For Assignment 3, can I use an approach similar to the approach suggested | + | **Question 5**: Some members of my assignment group are doing less work / making less |
+ | effort / contributing less. Is this a valid reason for not handing | ||
- | Answer to Question | + | Answer to Question |
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+ | Unfortunately a claim that some members of an assignment group | ||
+ | are doing less work / making less | ||
+ | effort / contributing less than some other members of the assignment | ||
+ | group, is NOT a valid reason for not handing in | ||
+ | an assignment on or before the assignment due date. | ||
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+ | If any member of any assignment group wishes to receive any credit | ||
+ | for any assignment, | ||
+ | that assignment group would need to hand in the assignment | ||
+ | on or before the assignment due date. | ||
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+ | **Question 6**: The other members of my assignment group are not responding to my attempts | ||
+ | to contact them; some of them may have dropped the course. What should I do in this case? | ||
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+ | Answer to Question 6: | ||
- | Yes. You should follow | + | In a situation where not all assignment group members are willing to work |
+ | together to complete an assignment, | ||
+ | complete | ||
+ | (even if in the whole group there is only one member who is | ||
+ | willing to work to complete |
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