Large Assignments

Programming assignments are large (compared to APTs), open-ended problems, providing opportunities for you to express some creativity and go beyond the basic specification.

Large Assignment	How-to	Due Date
Coding zero		Moday, Jan 21st
Totem	howto	Monday, Feb 4th
Transform	howto	Thursday, Feb 21st
Midtterm I, Feb 18
Hangman	howto	Monday, Mar 8th
Spring Break, Mar 11 - 15
Jotto	howto	Monday, Apr 1st
Recommender	howto	Tuesday Apr 16th
Clever-Hang	howto	Thursday Apr 25th
Creative	samples	Friday Apr 26th
Midtterm II, Apr 10
Final, Apr 30

Assignment Submission

All Large Assignments must be turned in on the due date given. You are responsible for ensuring that all files are turned in on time, if a program is turned in late there is a penalty detailed online here.

You can submit via:

EITHER the Ambient plugin for Eclipse.
OR the web submit system.

You may submit an Large Assignment as many times as necessary, but only the files included in the last submission will be graded. Thus, you should always submit all your project's files -- even if they have not changed since a previous submission. Note, the official time of submission for your project will be the time of your last submission. An assignment will be considered late if the last submission is late, even if your first submission was on time. You may lose points on your assignment if your final submission is incomplete or late.

Starter Code

Many assignments will include code to get you started. This may consist of completed modules that you will utilize but not modify or modules in which some functions have been completed and others are left for you to fill in. In either case, comments will clearly indicate which sections of the code you may edit and which must not be modified (you can go to these sections directly by using the Tasks view within Eclipse). All starter code may be obtained with the Ambient download tool by following the directions here. The download site for the course is

http://www.cs.duke.edu/courses/spring13/snarf/

README

Every Large Assignment submission must include a plain text file, named README.txt (please use all capital letters in naming the file), that includes the following information:

Your name
The date you started the assignment, the date you completed the assignment, and an estimate of the number of hours you worked on it
A list of the students with whom you consulted on the assignment. Since assignments are to be your own work, you should keep track of anyone with whom you have had a significant conversation about a program. You are welcome to talk with the course staff about the assignment, and to other students about broad ideas and concepts. If you did not consult with anyone, you must explicitly state that.
Note any books, papers, or online resources that you used in developing your solution. If you did not use any outside resources, you must explicitly state that.
There may also be specific questions given in the assignment whose answers you will be asked include in this file. Often you'll be asked to provide these answers in a separate file, not in the README.txt file.
You should include your impressions of the assignment to help the course staff improve it in the future.

Within Eclipse, you can create plain text file by choosing File -> New -> Untitled Text File.

Other requirements

You must include a comment at the top of each source file you modify that includes your name.