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 **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 in the assignment before the due date?
+effort / contributing less / have dropped the course. Is this a valid reason for not handing in the assignment before the due date?
 Answer to Question 5:
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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
+effort / contributing less / have dropped the course, is NOT a valid reason for not handing in
-group, is NOT a valid reason for not handing in
 an assignment on or before the assignment due date.
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 If you read the project specification carefully, in Section A, it explicitly and clearly states that “//An important requirement is that you should try to draw as many as possible of// //__**your own diagrams**__//, //which illustrate, as many as possible of the following information//: …” - Nowhere in the specification does it say that you can “just pick one of the 13 examples which is posted on the pdf and just research and talk about it in detail and write a report about it.”
+**Question 20**: Could you please tell me the number of topics and diagrams that would be
+appropriate to cover in order to receive a grade at the B level or higher in the project?
+Answer to Question 20:
+If you read the project specification carefully, Section E specifies how the project will be
+evaluated. Nowhere in Section E does it say that the project will be evaluated based on the number of topics and diagrams only.
+**Question 21**: Which file formats are accepted when submitting the project?
+Answer to Question 21:
+.pdf for the report file, .h and .c for the c program files are
+accepted file formats when submitting the project.
+For highlighted .h or .c files,
+you may convert such files to .pdf format before
+submitting them.
+**Question 22**: Why am I being asked to acknowledge the Statement Required by the Lassonde School of Engineering For All Lassonde Students When Submitting Course Work?
+Answer to Question 22:
+On October 19, 2020, the Lassonde School of Engineering has asked all instructors to post this statement on eClass pages and at the beginning of each assessment, and also ask students to acknowledge this statement when submitting their work.
+**Question 23**:  I have a question regarding the Assignment requirements. I want to know if I need to handle case 1: ...; case 2, ...; case 3, ... case n?
+Answer to Question 23:
+In Section F of the assignment, Notes, it is stated that:
+"Please note that the requirements specified in section A. Description of the
+Assignment above, are the //__**minimum requirements**__// that must be satisfied by your
+program. Obviously, there are many other possible details of the alarm system
+that have been left unspecified. It is your responsibility to make appropriate
+design and implementation choices concerning the unspecified details of the
+alarm system, and justify those decisions in your report."
+**Question 24**: Are presentation slides still required for assignment 1?
+Answer to Question 24:
+Yes.
+**Question 25**: Do we need to perform an actual presentation of the slides for assignment 1?
+Answer to Question 25:
+No.
+**Question 26**: How much text is required for each presentation slide in assignment 1?
+Answer to Question 26:
+In general it is up to each individual group to make their individual judgment regarding the amount of text to include in each presentation slide.
+**Question 27**: I noticed that Assignment 3 was updated to include requirement A3.4.6 on the next day of when the assignment 3 was announced. Is requirement A3.4.6 really required?
+Answer to Question 27:
+The requirement A3.4.6 is a very important requirement. Requirement A3.4.6 is definitely
+required.