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--- faq [2021/02/16 20:32] – jxu
+++ faq [2021/02/19 18:21] – jxu
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 The Assignment 1 specification states that, “**F. Notes** //... In general it is up to each individual student to make his/her individual judgment regarding details such as what specific material to include in the report, the length of writing in the report, and how to organize and structure the material in the report, and any other possible details about the report. ...”//
-Question 9: Can we use lectures from our
+**Question 9**: Can we use lectures from our
 previous courses like EECS 2030 to help us explain the function of some OOP
 methods and if so should we source them?
-Answer to Question 9: You cannot reference lectures from
+**Answer to Question 9**: You cannot reference lectures from
 previous courses like EECS 2030, because such information is not publicly available. However, you can reference a textbook that is used by a previous course.
-**Question 10**: How should I think about what specific material could be useful to include in the Assignment 1 report?
+**Question 10**: How should I think about what kind of information could be useful to include in the Assignment 1 report?
 **Answer to Question 10:**
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 //**"Imagine that a software company wants to know as much as possible about the possible advantages and disadvantages of using various object-oriented approaches in the design and implementation of software, and that company has assigned you the task of writing a report to identify and explain the possible advantages and disadvantages of using various object-oriented approaches in the design and implementation of software in your report which will be read and used by managers and technical staff of that company to make decisions on whether to adopt various object-oriented approaches in the design and implementation of that company’s software."**//
+**Question 11**: What would be a good way to practice using the data structures and
+algorithms in the course?
+**Answer to Question 11:**
+A good way to practice using the data structures and
+algorithms in the course, would be for each particular data structure and algorithm, including
+every method/code, in the course textbook
+“Data Structures and Algorithms in Java”, M.T. Goodrich, R. Tamassia, M.H. Goldwasser, Wiley, 2014, 6th Edition, create a good variety of different concrete example data for each particular data structure, then perform each step of the
+algorithm/method/code on each particular data structure using each of the variety of different concrete example data step-by-step.
+.