Fall 2015 UMBC CMSC202 Computer Science II, Section 6

Projects

• Project 1: Breaking Zendian Ciphers. Due: Thursday 9/24, 9:00pm.

• Project 2: Sets of Strings, Due: Thursday 10/15, 9:00pm.

• Project 3: Polynomials , Due: Thursday 10/29, 9:00pm.

• Project 4: Zombie Apocalypse, Due: Thursday 11/19, 9:00pm. Monday 11/23, 9:00pm.

• Project 5: Templated Linked List, Due: Monday 12/7, 9:00pm.

Project Policy

However, we will reiterate the late policy here:

• Projects are due at 9:00PM of the due date (not midnight). Submission permissions are turned off by script. Even a few seconds late is late.

• Projects submitted up to 24 hours late will incur a 25% penalty. Again, submission permissions are turned off by script. Projects submitted 24 hours plus a few seconds after the due time are considered 2 days late.

• Projects submitted up to 48 hours late will incur a 50% penalty.

• Projects cannot be submitted more than 48 hours after the due time.

The best strategy is to start your assignment early and submit on time. The late penalties are quite severe.

If you have an excusable reason for late submission, contact your instructor (not your TA).

How to submit late projects

• If you wish to take the 25% penalty and submit Project 1 up to 24 hours late, copy your files to ~/cs202proj/proj1-late1. (You will no longer have write permission to the ~/cs202proj/proj1 directory after the due time.)

• If you wish to take the 50% penalty and submit Project 1 up to 48 hours late, copy your files to ~/cs202proj/proj1-late2. (You will no longer have write permission to the ~/cs202proj/proj1 or the ~/cs202proj/proj1-late1 directory when it is more than 24 hours after the due time.)

Before the 9:00pm due time on the due date, you should still submit whatever files you have for the project. If you make vast improvements within 24 hours (worth more than 25%), you can copy the files to ~/cs202proj/projx-late1. The same strategy applies for the second late day. (You cannot ask to submit your "original" files to ~/cs202proj/projx after the due time has passed.)

The grading scripts will pick up the files in your last submission directory for grading. Do not copy files into projx-late1 or projx-late2 just for fun. The presence of files in those directories indicate your desire submit late. If you have already copied files to projx-latex and decide that your previous submission would be worth more points, then just remove the files from the late directory using the Unix rm command. You have to decide which submission you want to have graded. We will not grade both and let you pick the higher grade. (Also, do not ask the instructor to predict which grade will be higher.)

The best strategy is to start your assignment early and submit on time. The late penalties are quite severe.