Homework and Programming Assignments

Homework and Programming Assignments

Programs

Programs for this course will be run on the Pomona College Computer Science department's lab facilities, based in Edmunds 227. You are welcome to use other computers to write and test your programs, but they must run on our facilities. You may log in remotely to any of the lab machines using ssh. Please do not log into any of our servers (e.g., project2 or xserv) to do homework.

If you do not have an account on the Pomona College Computer Science network, please go to https://www.dci.pomona.edu/ immediately to request an account.

Turning in Homework

All homework will be turned in via Sakai. Programs should be submitted in separate files that I can run directly without editing or other modification

If you are running your programs on other computers, please make sure that you are using compatible versions of software. I will specify in class the versions that we have loaded on the Pomona College computers. Different versions of compilers or interpreters often use slightly different libraries that are incompatible with other versions. You are responsible for making sure that your program, as turned in, will run successfully without any extra work on my part. Include instructions on how to run your programs either at the top of the program file or in a separate README.

Non-program solutions can be turned in either as plain text or pdf (preferably generated by LaTeX). If you would prefer to write your solutions by hand, please scan or photograph them in so that they can be turned in electronically. All homework files must have sufficient contrast so that they can be read easily by me. A scanner is available in the small room between the two CS computer labs on the second floor of Edmunds. All items turned in must have your name on them (e.g., as comments for programs), as we will normally be looking at printouts, and will not know who to give credit to if there are no names printed.

An important criterion in grading homework will be clarity of solution. Thus you should attempt to explain your solutions, program or not, as clearly as possible. This also means that programs should be carefully documented so that I can understand them. At a minimum, each function defined should include a comment on what it does. The comment should explain what each input parameter stands for and how the output depends on the input.

Using LaTeX

See the items in the links section of the on-line syllabus for information on using LaTeX. The following links provide a sample LaTeX file and the pdf it generates. Your homework solutions should follow this template. That is, start each assignment using the template and modify it as appropriate to put in your homework solutions.

• The latex file HW-Latex-template.tex
• The pdf file it generates: HW-Latex-template.pdf

Late policy

Problems will be assigned and due most weeks during the term. Homework will generally be due at midnight on Thursday nights. Each student may use a maximum of three late days during the course of the semester (note that weekend days count). Once those late days are used up, late homework will not be accepted.

Homework and Programming Assignments