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You are allowed to modify the main() procedure and the alarm_thread in any way that meets the assignment requirements. | You are allowed to modify the main() procedure and the alarm_thread in any way that meets the assignment requirements. | ||
- | **Question 5**: We are start writing the code for assignment 2. One issue we found is the | + | **Question 5**: Some members of my assignment group are doing less work / making less |
- | code you give us has the problem when user input as following: | + | effort / contributing less. Is this a valid reason |
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- | alarm> 10 hello | + | |
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- | alarm> 5 world | + | |
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- | alarm> (10) hello | + | |
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- | (5) world | + | |
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- | The message " | + | |
- | set before | + | |
- | used condition mechanism could solve this problem. Should we implement | + | |
- | assignment 2 base on that code or just leave this problem and still use the | + | |
- | code you gave us? | + | |
Answer to Question 5: | Answer to Question 5: | ||
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- | What do you mean by " | ||
- | Assignment 2 never asked you to write assignment 2 "based on" ANY code. | ||
- | The sample code was only provided for the purpose of illustrating some of the concepts discussed in the book related to POSIX Threads. | ||
- | No one has ever said that the sample code should be used or can be used to satisfy the requirements of assignment 2. | ||
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- | **Question 6**: Some members of my assignment group are doing less work / making less | ||
- | effort / contributing less. Is this a valid reason for not handing in the assignment before the due date? | ||
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- | Answer to Question 6: | ||
Unfortunately a claim that some members of an assignment group | Unfortunately a claim that some members of an assignment group | ||
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that assignment group would need to hand in the assignment | that assignment group would need to hand in the assignment | ||
on or before the assignment due date. | 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: | ||
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+ | In a situation where not all assignment group members are willing to work | ||
+ | together to complete an assignment, the members who are willing to work to | ||
+ | complete the assignment should go ahead and work to complete the assignment | ||
+ | (even if in the whole group there is only one member who is | ||
+ | willing to work to complete the assignment). |
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