Lei's mail on project grading

["Subbarao Kambhampati" <rao@asu.edu>]

Hi, folks. 
 
 The project reports will return to you in Tomorrow's class. 
 
 Here are the guideline for the grading:
 Part I(20) + Part II (25) + Part III(30) + Presentation & Analysis (25) + Extra (5+5+5+10).
 Thus, the full score is  100+25.
 
 Here are some general suggestions to write a good report:
1. Write the report clearly so that I can find out you do finish each
task. Some description of your implementation would be appreciated.
Don't just give me the source code. 
 2. Give the output of some sample test calls to show that you code has no bug.
 3. Given the output, do some thorough analysis.
You can plot some figures to show the difference of different methods,
to check whether it is consistent with the theoretical result (like the
time complexity, space complexity, order of increase etc.) What are the
conclusions? Does it make sense?
 4. Did you encounter any problem
during the project? Anything unexpected? Can you conjecture any method
to resolve it? Are there possible ways to get better solutions?
 
 The basic philosophy is that, the more you spend on this project, the more you gain.  
 Please don't treat the project as just a "project".  but  a chance for exploration.
 
Some students just gave the source code. That's too bad.  Some students
just gave me the output for each test case without any comment or
analysis. Unfortunately,  these students probably will lose the credits
for the analysis part. On the other hand, some other students really
did a good job on analysis part with beautiful figures to show the
trend for comparison.  
 
 BTW: The link of project 2 submission in the blackboard system under the assignment directory.  Please hand in your program through that link. 
Don't use the digital drop box. Thanks!
 
 regards,
 -Lei