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[cse 471] Proj-1 statistics, grading scheme and comments



Hi all,
 
Here are some details on project-1 evaluation:
 
Grade distribution:
 
Grad: 93.4
 (Avg)
100 (H)
74 (L)
 
 
 
 
 UG:  90.5
 (Avg)
 99 (H)
74 (L)
 
ExtraCredit:     UG (Highest - 14)   Grad (Highest - 40)
 
Grading Scheme:
 
Part-1  --  32 pts   ( 2+5+5+5+5+10 - for the tasks)
Part 2  --  36 pts  
     A* function - 10 pts
    1. Code to collect different statistics  -  (3+3+3+4+2) - 15 pts
    2. Print path  - 5 pts
 (efficiency + quality of code )  - 6 pts
 
Part 3 -- Analysis (32 pts)
      Correct runs for given 5 test cases with all heuristics and metrics  -- 10 pts
      Comparison of various heuristics / comments on trends in computed statistics -- 10 pts
      Other interesting findings, observations, exceptions and proposed improvements  -- 12 pts  
     
Extra Credit: (40 pts)
1. DFS  -- 5 pts
2. Weighted  F-function --  8 pts
3. Redundant ancestral removal  -- 7 pts
4. Pattern Database heuristic   -- 20 pts
 
Comments::
 
* Most of you did well (following all the instructions I had sent earlier) and submitted a good report with formatted code, implementation details and analysis of various methods and heuristics.
 
* 2 students completed all the extra credit problems. In fact, one of them additionally implemented 'pancake sorting' using A* search to test its working on problems with higher branching factor. You're highly encouraged to try such new things, especially to look for exceptions in the given methods/trends, and suggestions for improving the solutions etc.
 
* Some of you have to follow better coding practices.
   - A couple of students coded three different child generation functions (one for each heuristic) -- which is a very bad coding practice. You should write generalized functions.
   - And, hard coding the values should be avoided.
   - While printing results to the console, you should format the results properly. (ex: printing the path to goal node, some of you just printed the LISP representation of arrays)
 
Please let me know if you have any questions on grading.
 
Thanks,
Aravind