Return-Path: lccheung@usc.edu Delivery-Date: Tue Feb 13 15:31:47 2007 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on merlot.usc.edu X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.3 Received: from msg-mx5.usc.edu (msg-mx5.usc.edu [128.125.137.10]) by merlot.usc.edu (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id l1DNVlL8023233 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:31:47 -0800 Received: from msg-store1.usc.edu ([128.125.137.12]) by msg-mx5.usc.edu (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JDF00DXRD9CQN90@msg-mx5.usc.edu> for cs551@merlot.usc.edu; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:29:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from usc.edu (localhost.usc.edu [127.0.0.1]) by msg-store1.usc.edu (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-5.02 (built Dec 1 2005)) with ESMTP id <0JDF0096HD9CYX20@msg-store1.usc.edu> for cs551@merlot.usc.edu; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:29:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.125.137.2] (Forwarded-For: [128.125.3.205]) by msg-store1.usc.edu (mshttpd); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:29:36 -0800 Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:29:36 -0800 From: Leslie Cheung Subject: cs551 final project To: cs551@merlot.usc.edu Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Sun Java(tm) System Messenger Express 6.2-5.02 (built Dec 1 2005) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-language: en Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline X-Accept-Language: en Priority: normal Hi class, As you might already know, the final project is HUGE. Even though you have more than a month to work on part 1, please start your final project ASAP! Writing code for a project of this size takes a lot of time. Debugging takes even longer, especially if you are not very familiar with C/C++. I had students who had spent more than a week just to hunt down a memory bug. Last semester, I noticed that some groups did not do well because they did not have enough time to integrate the code from both partners. So if you are working with a partner, be prepared to spend a week to integrate your code with your partner's code. If you plan to do your coding on other platform (we don't recommend), please be prepared to spend another week to port your code. --Leslie